The celebration of the Reconquest of Orihuela has a secular tradition, which has been documented for more than 600 years, and it is for this reason that the Moors and Christians Festival in its present form, founded in 1974, revolves around this event and this celebration so that they have become inextricably linked. The main day of the Festival is the 17th July, the day of Saints Justa and Rufina, to whose intervention in the exploits of la Armengola is attributed in popular tradition the definitive conquest of the Muslim fortress that dominated the city. The Moors and Christians Festival is engraved on the soul of Orihuela. The month of July has become the most special month of the year. A month to promote Orihuela’s culture, traditions and symbols.

This perennial plant is regarded as the largest in Europe. According to mythology, this is where the Greek physician Hippocrates mentored his medical students.

Palmeral de Orihuela constitutes an interesting agricultural system of intensive irrigation of Islamic origin with date-trees situated on the borders of the banks, paths and irrigation canals. You can either reach this area by means of path tracking through el Collado del Oriolet, or go jogging or cross-country through the orchards of palm trees.

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