Sun Sea History
Pull up a lounger.
This is the layer under the sangria.
History has always made me sit up straight. Even now I’ll lose an evening to a documentary. Living here, I keep wondering about the stretch between Isabel and Fernando and the Civil War. I’m no expert; I just like digging (even Time Team is still a massive favourite), and how this coast turned into the holiday place people think they already know.
It didn’t arrive with a promenade and a parking app. Romans salted fish at the water’s edge. Medieval towns were built, burned and moved. Raisins left Dénia for British tables. Corsairs emptied Calpe in a night. Warehouses became toy factories, then food halls. A fishing village down the coast decided it wanted hotels, and Benidorm began.
Sun Sea History is where we walk those stories. One place, one night, one building at a time. Not a textbook. The version you can still stand in: an arch, a saying, a ruined wall, a festival that forgot what it was remembering.
We’ll start where the stones still talk, Magazinos, the 1637 taking of Calpe, the Pobla under the Peñón, and work toward the moment the skyline changed.
Come for the plate. Stay for why the street is shaped like that.
Joanne xx Sun Sea Sangria Costa Blanca North
