Alicante · Vega Baja
Cox
A compact huerta town beneath the Sierra de Callosa, watched by a restored castle-palace and interpreted through an old flour mill turned agricultural museum.
Alicante · Vega Baja
A compact huerta town beneath the Sierra de Callosa, watched by a restored castle-palace and interpreted through an old flour mill turned agricultural museum.
Castle above, water below
Cox is arranged between the Acequia de Cox and a low rocky outcrop detached from the Sierra de Callosa. The restored Santa Bárbara castle-palace occupies that hill, only about eighty metres high, and looks across the entire cultivated plain.
Below it, the old flour mill records the other source of local power: moving air and managed water in a working huerta. Together the two buildings make the town's scale and history unusually legible.
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INE padrón, 1 Jan 2025
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How the Santa Bárbara castle-palace, a seventeenth-century flour mill and the irrigation landscape tell the history of compact Cox.
Published 2 September 2026
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