Benissa

Benissa is a small town in Spain inside the province of Alicante, 275 m above sea stage, and one of the oldest towns at the Costa Blanca. The municipality of Benissa has 4 km of coastline linking the towns of Moraira and Calp. The scenery of the location includes cliff tops, rocky coves, sandy seashores and tiny bays along the Benissa Costa. The territory of Benissa also incorporates terraced vineyards, mountains and palm trees.

Spanish village homes, with doorsteps directly onto the road, internal courtyards and deceptively spacious inner. Old finques a farm or country estate take a seat on large plots among vineyards with panoramic views to the sea. Nearby cities alongside the Costa Blanca are La Fustera, Cala dels Pinets, Cala de La Llobella, Cala l'Advocat, Baladrar and Cap Blanc earlier than reaching Moraira. The toponym of Benissa comes from the Arabic tribal call Beni-Hisa or Beni-Eyce.

Sons of Christ After the Christian reconquest 1248 by way of the troops of James II of Aragon, the town become settled with the aid of people from the Pyrenees, Catalonia and Aragon together with the previous inhabitants, even though most of the people of the population remained Muslim for centuries. The ultimate Muslim citizens had been expelled in 1609. Benissa, together with Altea, Calp and Teulada, shaped a lordship, whose rulers included the Sicilian admiral Roger of Lauria. In the 15th and 16th centuries it suffered numerous attacks by using African pirates.