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Old Town Route
Next to the tower of the walls that you can see in the Plaza de la Generalitat, you have an informative accessible panel: it is accessible to wheelchairs, has large print for people with visual impairment, visual text in Spanish, Valencian and English, has a relief map and text in…
Coastal walls (panel no. 4)
Villajoyosa has a continuous coastal drop of 20 metres to sea level.
The Costera or "slope" to the Sea has been the main way down to the beach for 3,000 years.
To its right are the walls that surround the old town.
These walls were built around 1550 in Renaissance style,
the previous walls having been destroyed by Berber corsairs in 1443.
The base of the walls is angled to better withstand the impact of cannonballs.
The tower of the Plaza de la Generalitat is the Baluard del Retor (Priest Bastion), because it was next to the abbey house.
The closest tower to the sea is the Baluard del Pou (Well Bastion), because behind it was the most important well in the town, the Pou de Sant Vicent.
In the towers there is a chamber with embrasures or openings for small cannons called culverins.
These guns fired cannonballs of about 9 pounds in weight and 3 inches in diameter.
The apse of the fortress church served as the main tower of the walls.
The city walls are declared Bien de Interés Cultural, the highest heritage protection category in Spain.
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