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Rojales is a village in the province of Alicante and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 27.6 square kilometres (10.7 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 21,583 people.
Ciudad Quesada is a district in the municipality of Rojales in the Province of Alicante, Spain.It has a population of 16,583 people (INE 2013 [1]).It is located in the southern area of Rojales, 6 km from Mediterranean sea.
Font d'Al-Azraq. The village of Vall d'Alcalà is well-known for being the birthplace of Al-Azraq, a Moorish commander who signed an important treaty with King James I of Aragon in 1245, known as the Al-Azraq Treaty of 1245, locally known as the 'Tractat del Pouet' ('Treaty of the little well') because it was signed beside a small water source just outside the village.
Alicante (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ k æ n t i /, also UK: /-t eɪ /, [3] US: / ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ k ɑː n t i, ˌ ɑː l-/; [4] Spanish:; Valencian: Alacant; officially: Alicante / Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port.
The municipality is located in the extreme south of the province of Alicante and the Valencian Community, in the lands that have traditionally made up the "field or dry land", far from the orchard or irrigated lands. by the Segura River. This town is accessed from Alicante via the A-7 to connect with the CV-945.
Calpe (Spanish:; Valencian: Calp) [2] [3] is a coastal municipality located in the comarca of Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 23.5 km 2 (9.1 sq mi) and a population density of 990 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,600/sq mi).
There are archaeological findings in the area dating to the Bronze Age, as well as an Iberian necropolis and remains of Roman villas.. In the later stages of the Reconquista, Sax was at the focus of tensions between Castile and Aragon, since James I of Aragon conquered it from the Moors though it should have been reserved to Castile under the treaties of Tudilén and Cazorla.
The Atalaya Castle (Spanish: Castillo de la Atalaya or Castillo de Villena, English: Castle of the Watch) is a fortress in Villena, province of Alicante, southern Spain. Located over a spur of the Sierra de la Villa, in the north-western part of the province of Alicante, it commands the former frontier between Castile and Kingdom of Aragon.