Cox

Gestalihome sells homes in Cox, located in one of the most charming places in the Spanish Southeast. This beautiful town is surrounded by a beautiful and rich orchard at the foot of the Sierra de Callosa and located 16 meters above sea level. Cox is located on the “Ruta de la Piedra” that it shares with the neighboring towns of Callosa and Orihuela.

The municipality of Cox is a small term of 16.80 km2, dedicated primarily to the agriculture of vegetables, and its subsequent commercialization, either in warehouses and export or directly in the markets of the entire area, having an important industrial estate dedicated mainly to companies that sell fruits and vegetables.

With an average temperature of approximately 19 degrees. The population has spread throughout the length and breadth of the plain, especially in the last century, and although it retains an interesting old town at the foot of the castle, its preponderant urbanization is modern and heterogeneous without heights exceeding four floors.

The most significant building is its castle, of Islamic origin and considered one of the oldest in the Valencian Community, to which we go ascending a Via Crucis that takes us first to the hermitage of Santa Bárbara and then to the fortress walls, about 80 meters high. Older towns settled on this rock, according to archaeological finds (Iberian and Roman among others). The Islamic castle dates back to at least the 11th century, but it was greatly modified later, especially at the end of the 15th century by order of the lord of the fortress, Juan Ruíz Dávalos, who built a chapel in honor of Santa Bárbara, the name by which the castle is currently known. Very deteriorated over time, it was restored in the 20th century and shows an interesting aspect that evokes its Islamic past, although without the original machicolations or battlements. It consists of a walled enclosure and a small palace or manor house from the 15th century. Its oldest construction elements are built with mud and masonry. In addition to being able to closely observe one of the oldest castles in the Valencian Community and remember the people who inhabited it, the views from there are impressive: on the one hand, the walls of the foothills of the Sierra de Callosa extend and on another leads to the immense plain on which the town extends.

In the town we approach the church of San Juan Bautista, built in the second half of the 18th century, on a previous church erected, as was customary, on the old mosque. The traveler who wanders through Cox should not leave without buying and tasting some of the fruit varieties that are still grown in the town and that will refresh their walk; This wandering may lead you to one of his museums: in the town's history museum (in the House of Culture), you can learn about the history and customs of the town through objects and photographs; a second museum takes us to Cox's mill, from the 17th century. Apparently it was built by the Castilian-La Mancha people who came to repopulate the valley after the terrible plague of the second half of the seventeenth century. This fact would explain its appearance, more typical, although not exclusive, of the Quixotic landscapes of La Mancha. This is of great proportions and consists of three floors. Initially intended for the grinding of cereal, it was later used as a waterwheel for the extraction of the waters that irrigated the gardens of the Marquis of the town, today occupied by buildings and streets of new construction. This old mill houses the Cox Ethnological Museum, where elements used in the work of the garden, the field or in daily life are exhibited.

Cox is also associated with the life of the Oriolano poet Miguel Hernández because his girlfriend Josefina Manresa was a neighbor from here, with whom he would marry and have a child, thus becoming part of the Hernandiana Route today.

The truth is that to read Miguel Hernández you don't need any excuse, but being the Camino del Cid a seminally literary route, it should be remembered that Cox was the poet's place of residence, and as such is part of the hiking route known as the Senda del Poeta, an itinerary partially followed by the Camino del Cid, and that from Cox travels to Callosa de Segura, Redován (Miguel Hernández's birthplace) and Orihuela. A good occasion, without a doubt, to reread some of the poet's poems.