Dénia to Mazarrón
This map follows 120 municipalities through Alicante and Murcia. Coverage is growing outward from the lower Segura, where a chain of towns shares one river, one irrigation system and the rebuilding that followed the 1829 earthquake.
Highlighted municipalities open a reviewed place guide. The rest of the map is coverage still to come.
Rojales grew beside the River Segura, where water engineering sustained the huerta and cave dwellings became a living craft quarter.
One of the smallest municipalities in the Vega Baja, settled in the eighteenth century to farm land irrigated from the Segura and rebuilt after the 1829 earthquake.
Destroyed by the 1829 earthquake and rebuilt on a wide orthogonal grid, Almoradí is the market and artichoke town near the centre of the Vega Baja.
The last town on the Segura before the sea, rebuilt after 1829 behind a pine forest planted to hold back the dunes, with major archaeology at the river mouth.
One of the largest and most international towns on the Alicante coast, laid out around the royal salt administration in 1803 and rebuilt on a grid after the 1829 earthquake.
A Vega Baja village drained from marshland by Cardinal Belluga in 1729, now far outgrown by the international La Marina urbanisation towards the coast.
The newest municipality in Alicante province, independent from Orihuela since 1986, on farmland the Romans crossed and Barbary raids once threatened.
A fishing and salt-working town on the Bay of Santa Pola, where a 2,470-hectare wetland carries the old Albufera d'Elx landscape to the Mediterranean.
A Mediterranean port city gathered below the fortress on Monte Benacantil, with an eighteenth-century island settlement and marine reserve inside its unusually long municipal boundary.
A dry sierra town shaped by scarce water, cave dwellings and a long passage from esparto and rush matting to Spain's modern carpet industry.
120
municipalities in the mapped area
10
places with a reviewed story
13
reviewed articles connected to the map
