Illeta - ruins from the Bronze Age
At the coastal town of Campello, 13 km north of Alicante on the Costa Blanca, lies Illeta dels Banyets, a small peninsula with ruins from nearly three thousand years before Christ. This archaeological excavation site is fenced off and is only open to the public a few hours a day. Here are traces of Iberian, Roman and Muslim settlement. The island of Illeta was once created by an earthquake. It was an island until 1944 when an artificial land connection was made. Now it is an