6 Sights in Orihuela, Spain (with Map and Images)

Orihuela is a city and municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Spain. The city of Orihuela had a population of 33,943 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. The municipality has an area of 367.19 km2, and stretches all the way down to the Mediterranean coast, west of Torrevieja, and had a total population of 92,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. This includes not only the city of Orihuela, but also the coastal tourist development hub of Dehesa de Campoamor with 33,277 inhabitants (2013) and a few other villages.

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The Zamora Holy Museum was created in 1957 by the Board Pro Holy Week in the city in order to conserve and exhibit the public the processional steps of the brotherhoods, until then housed in various premises, called, in Zamora, popularly, paneras In some cases the different sculptural groups were in very precarious conditions. After acquiring the plot that same year, the museum finally opened to the public on September 9, 1964. In 1972 the Board acquired an annex place, although without communication with the museum, to install its archive and that of the different brotherhoods in it . In 1990, two lots were acquired that added 435 m², being used to expand the exhibition space and to locate the offices, the Board Hall and the Restoration Workshop, reopening the museum on February 25, 1994 after the works that were taken just. On February 24, 1997, it was visited by Kings Juan Carlos and Sofia, on an official visit to the city, on the occasion of the centenary of the creation of the Board Pro Holy Week in Zamora.

Wikipedia: Museo de Semana Santa de Zamora (ES)

The Episcopal Palace of Orihuela is a Spanish religious palace in the Baroque style of the eighteenth century. It is located in the city of Orihuela, capital of the homonymous diocese of Orihuela. This building was the residence of the bishop of Orihuela.

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The walls of the city of Orihuela were a defensive construction of Greco-Carthaginian origin, which was built taking advantage of the natural defences that the city had. The walls surrounded the city and inside it had an internal wall that surrounded and protected the castle. This construction was located around the castle scattered around the mountain of San Miguel forming an internal defensive ring.

Wikipedia: Murallas de Orihuela (ES)

The regional archaeological museum of Orihuela is located in the church and men's room of the old San Juan de Dios municipal hospital. In this museum, different aspects corresponding to the culture of the Vega Baja region are exhibited, from the Palaeolithic to the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. It also has an ethnology section with Argaic, Islamic and Christian ceramics. It also keeps in the presbytery of the Church the processional step El Triunfo de la Cruz, known as La Diablesa, made by Nicolás de Bussy in 1694.

Wikipedia: Museo Arqueológico Comarcal de Orihuela (ES)

The Orihuela fish market located on Calle Aragón s/n in the city of Orihuela (Alicante), Valencian Community, is a public building in Valencian modernist style built in 1926, which was designed by the Orihuela architect Severiano Sánchez Ballesta. It currently houses the La Lonja Auditorium.

Wikipedia: Lonja de Orihuela (ES)