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Guadalest
You'll be far from the first to discover the village of Guadalest; nowadays coaches,
heading up from the Costa Blanca resorts, disgorge more than two million visitors
every year. But get there early, or stay around after the last bus has pulled out, and
the place will be almost your own.
Crowds come because Guadalest, reached by a natural tunnel and overlooked
by the
Castillo de San José
, is indeed very pretty, and it's a joy to stroll through a
traffic-free village.
Among the village's nine small museums of this and that, two stand out.
Museo Etnológico
(donations welcome; 10am-6.30pm daily Jun-Oct, Sun-Fri
Nov-May)
is a small, sensitive presentation of what life in Guadalest was like before
the coach parties came along.
Call by the
Museo de Saleros y Pimenteros
(
www.useodesalerosypimenteros.es
, in Spanish; adult/child €3/free; 10.30am-7.30pm)
for its sheer quirkiness
.
Beside the tourist office, its cabinets cascade with more than 20,000 salt and pep-
per pots of every imaginable shape and theme.
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Festivals
If you like Valencia's Las Fallas festival, we think you'll also love:
1 SEMANA SANTA, LORCA
Among Spain's most flamboyant Easter celebrations, in inland Murcia.
2 LA TOMATINA, BUÑOL
The world's biggest tomato fight on the last Wednesday in August, in Valencia
province.
3 MISTERI D'ELX, ELCHE
Annual Unesco World Heritage-listed mystery play, held in mid-August, in Valen-
cia province.
4 MOROS Y CRISTIANOS, ALCOY
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