Visiting Casa Pinet in the small mountain village of Tarbena is one of those quirky experiences which will stay with you for the rest of your life. The drive from the Costa Blanca to Tarbena is quite dramatic. There are…
Guardians of Stone – Alicante’s Castles
Wherever you travel in the province of Alicante you will see fortifications of some sort. Some are just the ruins of an old fort, others are restored towers, but many are fully fledged castles just waiting for you to explore them. I…
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Castles on the Costa Blanca
There are many castles on the Costa Blanca. This is mostly thanks to the conquests and reconquests between the Moors and Christians many years ago. A new “castles route” has been developed but its information is English is far from…
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The First of Many Foreigners
Back in 1963 Nils Gäbel and his family sailed from their native Sweden and came across the small harbour town of Torrevieja. How different it must have looked back then, for he became the first foreigner to settle in the town. Imagine…
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Cuevas del Rodeo
On the first Sunday of every month, the town of Rojales, just a few kilometres inland from Guardamar, hosts an unusual artisan market. You can buy all sorts of paintings from a risqué nude to a scene from a bullfight. There are…
