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El Campello

Campello, el, L'Alacantí, Alicante

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El Campello

Village · Campello, el, L'Alacantí, Alicante

El Campello is a coastal municipality in the province of Alicante, 13 km northeast of the capital; it has 31,419 inhabitants (2025) and tourism is today one of the mainstays of its economy. It was a fishing settlement that grew up in the shelter of a watchtower and formed a rural district of Alicante until its separation in 1901, when it gained its own town council. On the Illeta dels Banyets peninsula, which was an island until the 1940s, it preserves one of the most important archaeological sites in the Mediterranean, with Bronze Age remains, an Iberian settlement and a Roman villa with small baths and pools linked to the sea where fish were raised, known as the Baños de la Reina after a legend that attributes them to a Moorish queen.

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