C/ Santísimo Cristo - Plaza de la Villa.

Winter: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 17 to 20 h.

Mondays: Closed. 

Inaugurado en abril de 1996, este edificio fue casa consistorial hasta 1974. El Museo Arqueológico consta de dos plantas y sótano. La fachada principal es de tres cuerpos de proporción vertical guardando cierta simetría respecto al cuerpo central destacando el balcón corrido, el reloj y la campana de grandes dimensiones.

Dispone de dos plantas de exposición ordenadas cronológicamente desde el siglo III y VIII hasta nuestros días. Con capacidad para 40 personas se expone restos arqueológicos extraídos en los diversos yacimientos Calpinos: Banys de la Reina (época Romana), Penyal d'Ifach: (Ibérica), Tossal de Cosentari (Ibérica), Castellet (Musulmana), Fons submarins (ánforas Púnicas). En sus vitrinas se exponen algunos de los objetos y cerámicas hallados durante las últimas excavaciones arqueológicas ofreciendo al visitante una visión global de la vida en el enclave de "Els banys de la Reina".

Summer: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 18 to 22 h.

Winter: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 17 to 20 h.

Mondays: Closed.

Summer: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 18 to 22 h.
Winter: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 17 to 20 h.
Mondays: Closed.

Summer: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 18.00 to 22.00 h. Winter: from 09.30 to 13.30 h. and from 16.00 to 18.00 h. Mondays: Closed.

The Casa del Cocó is a typical rural building of the Marina Alta area. Originally, it consisted in big rooms to store home-produced agricultural products, stockyards for sheep and goats, granaries and an extensive "riu-rau" for the production of raisins, since the Casa del Coco was a great producer of this fruit. The different economic activities developed in Calpe in other times are represented in the different rooms of the museum.

Summer: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 18 to 22 h.

Winter: from 10.30 to 13.30 h. and from 17 to 20 h.

Mondays: Closed.

The building that houses the Festival Museum was built at the end of the 19th century and from 1905 to 1916 it was used as Town Hall and Judicial Rooms. It exhibits a wide sample of the clothes used in the different festivals held in the city of Calpe.

We will find costumes used in the Moors and Christian Festivals since 1975, which include the clothes belonging to the "Favourites" and "First Ladies". These Festivals are held in October in honour of the Santísimo Cristo del Sudor, the Patron Saint.

We will also find the typical costumes of the Patron Saint Festivals in Calpe, which are held on August 5th in honour of the Virgen de las Nieves (the Virgin of the Snow), as well as the typical clothes of the Fallas de San José, held on March 19th together with the "Ninots Indultats", the dolls from the "Fallas" that are saved from burning.

This building is located at the top of a hill and was built by the owners of old country houses outside the walled enclosure in order to secure their own defence. It had a small wall, which has now disappeared. 

Built at the beginning of the 18th century, this construction is a visual milestone in the landscape that dominates most of the municipal term.

It consists in a compact rectangular-plan main section, three floors and a two-sided roof, with the end spaces in the first floor turned into flat railed balconies.

At the back, a series of sections are attached to the main building creating two courtyards, one exterior and the other one interior, which connect the house with the working areas. Traditional materials have been used, generally stone and masonry with mixture.

In the façade, the rough stone overhanging and the machicolation over the main door access stand out.

Construida a principios del S. XVIII, el edificio es un hito visual y paisajístico que domina la mayor parte del término municipal.

Consta de un cuerpo principal compacto de planta rectangular, tres alturas y cubierta a dos aguas, con los huecos extremos de la primera planta transformados en balcones planos enrejados.

A la edificación principal se adosan por su cara posterior una serie de cuerpos creando dos patios, uno exterior y uno interior que articulan la vivienda con las zonas de trabajo. Los materiales utilizados son los tradicionales, en general piedra y mampostería con mezcla.

Destacan en su fachada el alero corrido de piedra tosca y el matacán sobre el hueco de acceso.

alejada del recinto amurallado del núcleo urbano, y que para su protección disponía de fortificaciones propias.

Puede apreciarse un matacán sobre la entrada de la puerta principal.

The Calpe Castle was extraordinarily important during the Crown of Aragon period, in the second half of the 13th century.

It was only by taking it by surprise that Jaime I could seize the city and the walled city.

The Calpe Castle, together with the Denia Castle, is one of the most important buildings of the Kingdom of Valencia beyond the Jucar during the second half of the 13th century. It was located in the Mascarat massif next to Toix and it is nowadays known as "El Castellet" (the Small Castle). It is completely inaccessible, except by the side overlooking Calpe, which can be hardly climbed. It had two wells carved into the rock.

Nowadays, only a stone wall 5 metres high, 4.5 metres wide and 0.75 metres thick still endures after it was destroyed by the English squads in the Succession War.

The remains still surviving today do not belong to the original Arab castle but to the remains of a watchtower built in the Mascarat at the end of the 16th century that was used to prevent attacks by Berber pirates.

This hermitage only opens on June 24th, Saint John's Day.

It is a Gothic style hermitage, from the Reconquest period, with a great landscape interest, since from here you can contemplate a wonderful view of Calpe. The building has a rectangular plan. Inside, it is divided into three sections by means of pointed arches resting on stone pillars which develop in buttresses towards the exterior of the facades.

It is a recreation of the so-called Reconquest Gothic style, for a religious use. There are only a few monuments like this and so it is nowadays a site with a great symbolic and traditional interest.

The first building dates from the 17th century, but it was destroyed during the Moorish incursions. In 1748, another building was erected on the place of the previous one, which was rebuilt in 1945 and 1992.

Well into the 20th century, sailors kept this oil lamp in the hermitage facade lit, since it was used as a guide during the night for the vessels looking for the anchorage. That is why there is an olive tree, a natural source in-situ of oil.

It opens on August 6th to celebrate San Salvador's Day, the day of the Reconquest of Calpe by Jaime I.

Sundays and public holidays from 9:00 to 18:00 h.

Conceived as a leisure area and located in an exceptional spot, Oltá, it offers a wonderful view of the town. On October 4th, San Francisco's Day, a pilgrimage to this hermitage takes place.

It is a rural construction from the 18th century that used to provide people from Calpe with water for domestic use. It was also used as a watering place, until in 1878 water was channelled  from the "Pou Roig" to Calpe.

A small fountain and a small monolith of carved stone belonging to the well have been added to support pitchers and containers to pour water in them.

According to the tradition, an inhabitant from Calpe called "Tio Petit" transported the water on a horse from this well to the town for home delivery service.

This building is representative of the flour mills in the area of La Marina and was built on the foundations of a watchtower built in Phillip the Second's time (1583) to protect the coastline from pirate attacks. It is a construction from the 19th century with masonry walls, which consists in a circular tower of two floors and 7 metres high. It has an ashlar spiral staircase that connects both floors, an intermediate "naia" (level) and a vault that supported the original machinery room.

We should pay attention to its rectangular entrance door framed by ashlars made of rough stone of the neighbouring quarry and two lintelled windows with ashlars on the top floor. Outside, there are built-in holed stone pieces that were used to slow down sails.

It was built on a stone circular base, and the top of the capping ring was subsequently added. The original roof was conical and made of mobila wood.

The route to the top shows coastal vegetation, with species as for example lavender, almost horizontal pine trees due to the action of the wind, European fan palms, savins, junipers, rock roses and ferns.

As we go up, we find the remains of an old wall from the 14th century. From it, we can contemplate the Sierra Helada (Frozen Mountain) to the south, the Puig Campana and the Sierra de Aitana to the west, the Montgo and the Cabo de Moraira to the north and, in clear days, the Ibiza Island to the east.

The route to the top includes some complicated stretches due to the slope and the uneven ground. From the top, there is a wonderful panoramic view of the two Marinas. The Peñon de Ifach is a huge limestone rock of about 50,000 square metres that rises from the sea and joined to the mainland by an isthmus. Since the opening at the beginning of this century of the tunnel that passes through one of its walls on the north-west side, it is possible to reach the top, 332 metres above the sea level, using a path. The Peñon de Ifach has been inhabited from time immemorial. In Roman times, the dwellers came down to the isthmus joining the rock to the mainland, but some pottery and coin finds allow us to believe that the Peñon slopes were inhabited again in the Middle Ages. However, the continuous attacks from the sea forced the inhabitants to come down to the town of Calpe and create a watching system to face up pirate incursions. The Peñon de Ifach belonged to the town of Calpe until 1862, when it became a private property. Then, it belonged to several owners until it was purchased by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencial Local Authority), not long before being declared Natural Reserve. With 45 protected hectares, it is one of the smallest Natural Reserves in Europe, maybe the smallest. However, its bioclimatic conditions, the nature of its basic soils, its location and aspect involve a singular and varied flora and vegetation.

The sailors from Calpe parade in a procession around the port with the Virgen del Carmen image, offering flowers to their patron saint and paying homage to those who "did not return" from the sea.

Events:

* Passacaglia of the music band along the Calpe streets.

* Mass in honour of the sailors' patron saint.

* Offering of flowers to the Virgin before the procession.

* Procession around the port, where a boat is waiting the Virgin and takes the crown of flowers to throw it into the sea in honour of the disappeared sailors.

* After the Salve Marinera (Sailors' Hail Mary) the Virgin goes back to the starting point and then returns to the Parish Church.

* Once the procession ends, fireworks from the port.