Alicante
The Castle on the Rock
Portrait
Santa Bárbara sits on a bare limestone crag directly above the town, one of the largest medieval fortresses in Spain, and the rock face beneath it is read locally as a sleeping man's profile. Along the water runs the Explanada, a promenade laid with something over six million marble tiles in three colours, set in a wave pattern that reads as motion when walked.
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