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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Alcoy

8 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Alcoy, Spain

Updated February 14, 2024

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Puente de Sant Jordi

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Puente de Sant Jordi (San Jorge Bridge)

If you like Art Deco you will love this bridge.
One of many tunnel portals on Alcoy Greenway.

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Alcoy and Maigmó Greenways

A dictator's failed public works project has been reborn as two linked trails through spectacular scenery.
Inside the space.

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Llotja de Sant Jordi

This exhibition space designed to look like the skeleton of a whale is hidden underground.
Main corridor

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Shelter of Cervantes

This air raid shelter from the Spanish Civil War is now a museum dedicated to the history of the city's bombardment.
The restored mill building.

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Firefighters Museum of Alcoy

The first firefighters museum in southern Spain is ironically located in an old textile mill that burned down in 1985.
Locomotive No. 2 of the Alcoi-Gandia Railway

Alcoy, Spain

Locomotive No. 2 of the Alcoi-Gandia Railway

This 130-year-old, steam locomotive represents the Spanish industrial and agricultural boom of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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La Sarga Cave Paintings

These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.

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Circulo Industrial de Alcoy

This local cultural center is housed in one of the most important Valencian Art Nouveau buildings in a town that is blessed with many.
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