Calpe Monuments

San Juan de la Ermita Cometa. Situated on the outskirts of the population in the Tossal the Comet is a collection of historic religious buildings made up of an ancient fortified farmhouse built at the end of the 17th century or early 18th century.

Parish Church. Dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, the church is situated in the heart of the old town. Its construction dates from 1973–75, with a predominance of modern and solid architecture.

Its windows and murals decorate the interior with mosaics, and the facade is decorated with a mosaic that opened on 10-22-97 and shows different scenes from the Old and New Testaments, along with images of Christ and Sweat Virgen de las Nieves.

The Old Church. Attached to the Parish Church of Our Lady of the Snows, it is an Old Chapel Church, the only example of Gothic design in Mudejar Valencia. The wall supports the inside of existing buildings. The building combined religion and defense and was built to be a kind of defensive bastion.

This early 14th-century fortress was transformed, and today it forms the basis of the sacristy and bell tower. It houses an altarpiece in tempera of the 15th century, representing San Antonio Abad and San Cosme y San Damian with high artistic value attributed to a disciple of John Reixach.

Civil Monuments

Los Banos de la Reina. A rectangular enclosure, it is divided into six compartments by one longitudinal and two transverse walls. It also consists of four channels for ingress of water; two of them are separated by a triangular cutwater.

Religious Monuments

Chapel of the Savior. Situated on a hill overlooking the bay of great landscape value, the Chapel of the Savior was named on August 6, the day of the Transfiguration of the Savior, the date of the recapture of Calpe by Jaime I. Recreation of the so-called Gothic-type style conquest, it is a rectangular building with a gateway that’s oriented north and defined by diaphragm arches.

The interior is divided into three bays by pointed arches resting on stone pillars, which are on the outside of the facade. The first building dates back to the 18th century. In 1748 a new building was built on the site of the previous building, which was rebuilt in 1945 and 1992.

Next to the mouth of the channels are grooves preserved in the gates that closed the campus bulletin boards. All these works are carved in “coarse” stone. Although the name “Banos de la Reina” refers to a spa, according to legend, in reality we are faced with a complex nursery communicated among them and with the sea.

Compartments could conserve different species of live fish, whose purpose could be the consumption of the village nearby, which preserves the remains excavated in the vicinity. The dating of the above is from the late Roman period (fourth to fifth century AD).

Castillo-Fortaleza. Adjacent to the gorge Mascarat, the ruins of the Castle of Calpe Muslim are located here. These are the remains of a watchtower built in the late 16th century in order to prevent the attack of the Berber pirates.

It is a standing wall of the tower in which loopholes are found and defensive parts of the canvas from the path of access, maintaining the base of the tower. Joining military design and architectural history of the 16th century, the site was built using materials of the old castle Calpe (12th-14th centuries). Observed tocavia remains on the base of the wall, with paintings and the cisterns dug in the rock.

Part of the Tower (PECA). It is the bulwark of defense where “PECA” was installed; PECA is a piece of artillery that defended the Christian core from the 15th century onward and to which it owes its name.

Today we stand together to keep two of the four guns manufactured from the port of Calpe and England, dating from the early 14th century. The building has a truncated cone base, and its upper part is cylindrical. The construction system is based on stone mortar.