Before electricity, before refrigeration - how did people keep cool in a Spanish summer? With ice from the mountains! Cava Gran de Agres is where they stored it, high up in the Sierra Mariola mountains.
Category: Alicante province – top walks
The turquoise lake of Guadalest
The Guadalest lake supplies water to all those thirsty tourist towns on the Costa Blanca. It's a beautiful walk too! And it's nice and easy!
The spectacular Relleu dam walkway!
The walkway takes you deep into the gorge below the Relleu dam. There's a transparent viewing platform 40 metres above the water!
The clifftop castle of Granadella
The ruined castle of Granadella is perched on the cliffs above a beautiful little beach, with great views up and down the Costa Blanca.
El Forat de Bernia – a tunnel through a mountain!
El Forat de Bernia is unique. A naturally-formed tunnel that takes you right through the top of a mountain. And the views are sensational!
Seriously spectacular sea views; the L’Albir lighthouse walk
A gem of a walk to Albir Lighthouse along the slopes of the Serra Gelada nature reserve with an amazing panorama across the bay to Altea.
Climbing el Peñon d’Ifach, the Rock of Gibraltar lookalike
El Peñon d'Ifach is an icon of the Costa Blanca - a huge rock rising over a thousand feet out of the sea. It looks impossible to climb. But if you're fairly fit and not afraid of heights, you can get to the top for fantastic views.
Amazing clifftop views from El Morro de Toix
Catch some magnificent panoramas from El Morro de Toix - a 200 metre high clifftop between Calpe and Altea on the Costa Blanca
The Mascarat gorge, haunt of highwaymen
The walk into the Mascarat gorge near Calpe on the Costa Blanca is spectacular, with three bridges towering above you. And it used to be the haunt of highwaymen!
Walking to the majestic Tibi dam
The Tibi Dam near Alicante is immense, a huge wall of stone. It's been providing irrigation water for over four centuries - and it's a great walk in beautiful mountain scenery.