Orihuelea Tourism

Tourist Information

The city has an extensive network of tourism offices; three exist in the town in Orihuela and one on the coast.

Tourist Info ORIHUELA: Main Office, located in the basement of the Palace of Rubalcava.

Tourist Info ORIHUELA—PLATFORM: Office located at the station.

Tourist Info ORIHUELA—Center City Tourist Office has been included in the network Tourist Info in the Plaza Marques de Rafal in the annex building in the center of cultural Miguel Hernandez.

Tourist Info ORIHUELA—BEACH: Tourist office situated in Playa Flamenca on the Oriole Plaza.

It is currently planned to open a new office on the coast of Orihuela.

Golf

The town has three golf courses located on the coast of Orihuela, with 18 holes each, which are: Campo de Golf Villamartin, Golf Club Las Ramblas de Orihuela, and Real Club de Golf Campoamor.

Beaches

The township has 18 miles of coastline, with beaches and cliffs with crystal-clear waters. Some of its beaches get the blue flags for clean seas of Europe every year or the flag Qualitur, granted by the Ministry of Tourism of the Generalitat Valenciana. Some of these are: Barranco Rubio, Cala Capitan, Playa de Cabo Roig (Caleta Beach), Playa de Campoamor (Aquamarine), Campoamor Beach (La Glea), Playa Flamenca (Cala Estaca), Playa Flamenca (Cala Mosca), and Playa de las Mil Palmeras.

Three of the beaches also won the Q for Tourist Quality, becoming the first to succeed in Valencia. The winning beaches are Cala Capitan, Playa de la Glea, and the beach of Cala Estaca.

Tourism represents an important sector for the town. At present there are two types: sun and beach tourism and cultural tourism. There is a slowly growing interest in rural tourism, which provides both private and public infrastructure.

Orihuela has a number of festivals that receive significant numbers of tourists, especially Holy Week, declared a National Tourist Interest in 1989, and it opened the record to be declared an International Tourist Interest.

The town is complete with three four-star hotels and a number of three and two stars on the coast and in the city. Similarly, there are motel establishments both in the city and along the coast and in some parishes such as Arneva Los Huertos (both are very close to the city).

Camino del Cid. Orihuela is attached to the path of the Consortium Cid. This is the city where the Camino del Cid route ends and the Cid Vivar (Burgos) begins, in the birthplace of the Campeador. The city has an important environmental and cultural destination.

In turn the Town Hall of Orihuela has designed several tourist routes so visitors can learn the heritage of the city, including the route of the Gothic, the path of Miguel Hernandez, Francisco Salzillo path, the path of national monuments, Cultural Tour Orihuela, etc.

Marinas

Two marinas are located on the coast of Orihuela, with a large number of moorings and breadth. These are: Puerto Deportivo de Campoamor, located in the urbanization of the Dehesa de Campoamor, and Puerto Deportivo de Cabo Roig.Situado, in the area of Cabo Roig.

Tourist Routes

Orihuela is also included in the Tourist Board of the Costa Blanca Alicante and is present in numerous national exhibitions and international tourism. The capital is the cultural and heritage area of the province of Alicante, which is in the center of cultural tourism of Valencia.

Also in the township, roads have two cultural routes such as:

The path of the poet. A Ruta trail that begins in Orihuela and ends in Alicante. It passes through several villages in the district of Vega Baja, Alicante, and Elche. This is one of three hiking routes of the Valencia Grand Tour of Middle and is recognized by the Royal Federation of Mountaineering.

It is a difficult path, with low average intensity in some areas. It has an environmental and cultural itinerary designed to meet some of the stocks that hit Miguel Hernandez, starting from the place where he was born, lived his childhood, adolescence, part of his adulthood, where he had his family, and ends in the place where he’s buried (Cementerio del Remedio de Alicante).

Route or Camino Caravaqueno. Camino pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Caravaca de la Cruz on the occasion of the Holy Year. This route starts at the Cathedral of Orihuela and ends in Caravaca de la Cruz, passing along the Segura River to reach the city of Murcia.