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This charismatic knight won considerable lands around Valencia from the Arabs.
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This splendid church commemorates victories against the Arabs on the feast day of San Patricio in 1452. Begun in the mid-16th century, it was given a thorough Baroque overhaul in the 18th.
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Typical features: elaborate masonry and woodwork, pointed arches and exterior flying buttresses.
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The most famous inland village in the Costa Blanca, Guadalest has a picture-postcard setting atop a jagged crest in a sea of mountains.
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Little is left of Guadalest’s castle, but the ruins offer panoramic views.
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The Carthaginian general who famously crossed the Alps with elephants.
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The fortress-church of San Bartolomé was begun in 1513, when the coastline was under constant attack from pirates, but the golden Tosca stone and its faded sculptural decoration make it truly charming.
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Once one of the most affluent cities of the old Kingdom of Valencia, Callosa de Segura possesses one of the finest Renaissance churches in Spain.
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This delightful church was built on the ruins of Al-Lekant’s main mosque before the Reconquest. The soaring interior is in the purest Gothic style. The frothy façade was added in 1713.
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The Catholic monarchs held court at Orihuela in 1488, with the city at its most influential.
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