The Costa Blanca resort of Calpe is renowned for its excellent beaches, fine restaurants and, most of all, the enormous rock of Penon de Ifach. Due to its strategic coastal location, the town has a long and varied history. There is some evidence of early Iberian tribes in the area, but it was the Romans who established a thriving colony with an economy based on the production of dried fish. Between the 14th and 17th centuries Calpe was often subjected to pira...
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