Qualla: Calpe https://qualla.com/calpe en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/5/calpe-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Calpe https://qualla.com/calpe Calpe: Introduction https://qualla.com/calpe/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Romans came to Calpe for the fish. Along the shoreline they cut tanks straight into the rock, salting tuna and packing it for markets across their empire; the ruins still lie half-drowned at Els Banys de la Reina, the Queen's Baths, where the Mediterranean laps over stone two thousand years old. Calpe has always lived off the sea. It has also, for most of its history, lived in fear of what the sea might bring.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/5/calpe-wp/snb5-calpe-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Calpe: The Watchers on the Rock https://qualla.com/calpe/ Photo credit Polytaz, Public domain. Long before the Romans, Iberian settlers built on the high ground and kept watch from the great limestone rock that now bears the name Penyal d'Ifac. It was the perfect lookout, a sheer mass rising straight from the water and visible for miles in every direction. Inland, the Morr...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/5/calpe-wp/snb5-calpe-the-watchers-on-the-rock.mp3 0:06 2 full Calpe: A Village Built and Burned https://qualla.com/calpe/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1290 the Aragonese admiral Roger of Lauria ordered a village raised near the rock and called it Ifach. It did not last. In 1359, during the War of the Two Peters, Peter IV of Aragon against Peter I of Castile, Ifach was destroyed, and its survivors crowded into the alqueria, f...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/5/calpe-wp/snb5-calpe-a-village-built-and-burned.mp3 0:06 3 full Calpe: The Day the Corsairs Came https://qualla.com/calpe/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The sea's oldest threat arrived in 1637. Barbary corsairs out of Algiers fell on the Valencian coast and struck Calpe directly. When they sailed away, they carried 315 people with them into slavery, most of them women and children, taken from homes that had stood, until that morn...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/5/calpe-wp/snb5-calpe-the-day-the-corsairs-came.mp3 0:06 4 full Calpe: Salt, Fish, and Sunseekers https://qualla.com/calpe/ Photo credit Jorghé Van Hecke, CC BY-SA 4.0. Peace, when it came, smelled of brine. Through the nineteenth century the fishing industry grew, and a Fisherman's Cooperative rose beside older salting factories. In 1918 the El Saladar salt flats were cleared and the salt pans worked again; today that same lagoon is a sanctuary...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/5/calpe-wp/snb5-calpe-salt-fish-and-sunseekers.mp3 0:06 5 full Calpe: Zero Degrees https://qualla.com/calpe/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Josemanuel assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. There is one more line that crosses Calpe, invisible and arbitrary and strangely fitting for a town so long obsessed with knowing its position. The Greenwich meridian, zero degrees longitude, the reference from which the world measures east and west, passes through the municipali...

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