ACTIVITIES

You can learn about the history of Aspe at the History Museum, which provides a wide range of activities with the aim of promoting and preserving the cultural heritage of the town: temporary exhibitions, conferences, educational workshops, book launches.

An historic building from the end of the 19th century, originally located on the outskirts of the town, known as “El Cisco,” was chosen for its location.

The Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Socorro is a religious building that belongs to the artistic style known as the Valencian Levante Baroque. Its large size is due to the determination of the Dukes of Maqueda-Arcos to complete the construction of a temple. The building work was undertaken in several phases and started sometime during the 1650s.

At the end of the 18th century, Aspe food market was located on a site next to the Plaza Mayor, called the Plaza de la Fruta (The Fruit Square). Groceries and other goods were sold there from open-air stalls and shacks that lacked the necessary hygiene and sanitary conditions. Today, this site is occupied by the building that houses the New Town Hall.

The Aspe Water Route highlights the beauty of the arid landscape of the province of Alicante. You will pass through beautiful small canyons with multicoloured walls, wooded patches of pine trees, areas of scrubland and the course of the Vinalopó river, completely taken over by reeds before becoming the old Elche Reservoir. It is also a memorable walk through the history of the area, passing by aqueducts created 200 years ago to carry water through the fields and villages of the area, ruins of mills and houses and old market gardens that have now been abandoned. Not forgetting that you will be able to see the del Río Castle in the distance (if you have the time, you can even take a detour and climb the hill from which it dominates its ancestral possessions).

This route allows you to discover the Tarafa river system as it flows through the town of Aspe. The starting point of the trail borders the La Romana district on the Rollo road. Here, the Alcaná area forms a sedimentary plain determined by the contributions of the surrounding reliefs and the deposits of the ravine. This is a traditional agricultural area where you can still see a number of typical farmhouses. The route continues along the Aljibe de los Moros path, from where you can visit the restored hydraulic infrastructure of Arab origin that gives its name to the path. From here, the Rambla de la Alcaná and the El Romeral paths are followed.