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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…
Travesseret (panel no.12)
In the early 19th C., the town gates – the Portal and the Portalet – were knocked down.
A breach was also opened in the Travesseret to create a new entrance to the town.
A path led down from here that crossed the river and the neighbourhood of Poble Nou.
There it joined the Alicante road.
This path replaced the old one, which followed the river upstream.
Since 1868, Villajoyosa has been accessible via the N332 bridge.
A ‘través’ was an access to the top of a wall, so surely in this place there were no houses and that is why the wall was broken here when it was no longer necessary because the danger of pirates had disappeared, in order to create a new entrance to the villa.
This 1893 photograph shows the path that, after crossing the river, went up the Costera (‘Slope’) and entered through the Travesseret.
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