Guardamar del Segura is a touristic town in Alicante, located on the Costa Blanca, well known for its paradisiacal beaches surrounded by dunes and Mediterranean pine trees, its countless sunny days and traditional Spanish life.

What many do not know is that Guardamar del Segura inhabits an archaeological heritage discovered hundreds of years ago, unique in the world and next to the Mediterranean Sea. A treasure that Naranja Spain real estate invites you to discover.

The Caliphate Rábita in Guardamar del Segura

Next to the Alfonso XIII park, in Guardamar, are the archaeological remains of the Rábita Califal site, near the Phoenician city of La Fonteta, at the foot of the mouth of the Segura river, declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC).

The Archaeological Site of the Rábita Califal in Guardamar del Segura, is the first example of this Islamic monastic construction type; that exists in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)..

This site belongs to the Umayyad Andalusian period dating from the X-XI century, almost entirely preserved. It was a monastery where Islamic religious lived together, faithful performing the ribat and pilgrims.

Francisco Mira's extraordinary find consisted of a red sandstone tombstone commemorating the founding of a mosque in 944. after Christ., under the mandate of Caliph Abderraman III. The original tombstone is currently in the Archeological Museum of Murcia.

It is built by 23 oratory cells attached to each other, two complementary rooms and a mosque. All these rooms are distributed around two streets and grouped into three different areas: the sacred area, the area for the reception of pilgrims and the area of the monastery, where the monks who formed the stable congregation of this rábita (religious fortress) lived. These oratory cells, in their day, were plastered with mud and whitewashed.

Naranja Spain Real Estate encourages you to discover this ancient construction, where you will find beautiful paintings with plant and geometric motifs. Religious and everyday objects found at this site and the incredible Arabic calligraphy inscriptions.

This exclusive Califal Rábita, was very close to the Phoenician port city of La Fonteta in the dunes of Guardamar del Segura. (8th to 6th century BC)

The Phoenician port city of La Fonteta is one of the most complex and best preserved Phoenician cities in the entire Mediterranean.

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