The Tourism Department of Calpe Town Council will participate from next Wednesday at the Madrid Tourism Fair, FITUR 2025, and will focus its promotion on two aspects of Calpe's tourism offer: the Roman site of Baños de la Reina and its recent transformation into a museim) and the increasingly well-known Easter Week in Calpe.
The Baños de la Reina site has reopened its doors to the public after the adaptation works that have been carried out over the last few months and which have led to its transformation into a museum. These works allow this enclave, one of the most important archaeological sites in its category in Roman Hispania, to be opened to the public on a regular basis.
The works carried out correspond to the initial actions foreseen in phase A of the Master Plan for this archaeological site, drawn up by the Diputación de Alicante, which has financed the works with 439,388.69 euros.
Visitors can walk along the wooden walkways that set two itineraries that allow them to see the main archaeological sites: on the one hand, the Domus rotunda with its baths and circular mosaic (4th century) and on the other, the hydraulic complex with the waterwheel and a series of villas (2nd century A.D.).
Councillor Mireia Ripoll will be in charge of presenting the project on Wednesday at 17:30 in the Patronato Costa Blanca space, together with a video showing the possibilities of the site.
Easter Week will also be shown as an attraction to visit the municipality. Last year the Town Council began the process of requesting that Easter Week in Calpe be declared a Fiesta of Regional Tourist Interest.
In recent years, Easter Week in Calpe has regained extraordinary dynamism. Five brotherhoods, together with the Festivities Commission and the parishes of Nuestra Sra. de las Nieves and Nuestra Sra. de la Merced, have joined forces to organise a complete and extensive programme coordinated by the Junta Mayor de Cofradias y Hermandades de Semana Santa (Major Board of Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods of Holy Week).
Throughout the week the different brotherhoods process through the streets of the old town, one every day from Palm Sunday onwards. The devotion and aestheticism reach their peak on Good Friday, with the procession of the Holy Burial, which ends in the Plaza de la Villa with the gathering of all the images and brotherhoods.
Holy Week thus becomes a religious, cultural and touristic event, the devotion and fervour that emanates from each act is combined with a great aesthetic and cultural value.
For this reason, this week representatives of each of the brotherhoods and sisterhoods that make up the Junta Mayor will travel to Madrid to take part in a presentation which will take place on Wednesday 22nd in Plaza Callao and later at IFEMA, the Councillor for Fiestas, Mariola Mulet, will be responsible for presenting a video about Easter Week in Calpe made for the occasion at 4pm in the Patronato Costa Blanca area. The mayoress, Ana Sala, will travel to FITUR to be present at both presentations.
With these attractions, Calpe stands out at FITUR as a destination that combines history, heritage, culture, tradition and tourism, consolidating itself as a destination to visit at any time of year.
FITUR PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 22ND:
11:00h. Presentation of Calpe Easter Week in Plaza Callao.
16:00h. Calpe Easter Week Presentation (IFEMA - FITUR). On the Costa Blanca Provincial Tourist Board stage.
17:30h. Presentation of the Banys de la Reina open-air museum (IFEMA - FITUR). On the Costa Blanca Provincial Tourist Board stage.