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Pego

Country:
Spain
State:
Comunidad Valenciana
City:
Pego
Type of Location:
Multiple
About Location

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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By air

Nearest airports to Pego are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

  Tancos Airport (distanced approximately 18 km)
  Leiria Airport (distanced approximately 67 km)
  Monte Real Airport (distanced approximately 75 km)
  Lousa Airport (distanced approximately 76 km)
  Ota Airport (distanced approximately 80 km)

Key places to visit
Archpriest Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, Museum of Contemporary Art in Pego, Ambra Castle, Natural Park-Oliva Marjal, Archaeological sites

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Places to Visit

Archpriest Church of the Assumption of Our Lady

Archpriest Church of the Assumption of Our Lady of Pego is most important Catholic church in this village -style renaissance, built in the sixteenth century on the ruins of another smaller church, held in turn over the remains of the mosque Uxola .Retains artistic pieces of great regional and national interest, including the altarpiece of the Virgen de la Esperanza, double Veronica, Processional Cross, the crucifix in the sacristy, the image of the Holy Christ of Providence, and numerous pieces of jewelry.

Museum of Contemporary Art in Pego

The Museum of "Contemporary Art" of Pego, opened in 1991 with funds that are the winning entries in the Contest of Painting "Villa de Pego," first published in 1976. The City Council at that time provided a major art gallery and felt an obligation to expose the public and thus constitute a first-order center, revitalizing the cultural and tourist center as well as artistic concerns has always the town of Pego.

Ambra Castle

Ambra Castle is located in the town of Pego in the province of Alicante. It is of a Moorish castle built in the early thirteenth century which stands on a rocky ridge of the mountain of Ambra, in the mountains of Migdia, from which dominates the Pego marshes, which function was to serve as place shelter inhabited and rural communities.From this castle is controlled access to the Ebo Valley.

Natural Park-Oliva Marjal

Natural Park Marjal-Oliva is a natural area is situated right in the towns of Pego and Oliva, provinces of Alicante and Valencia, Valencia, Spain. 1250 This place has been declared a nature reserve by the Valencian government on 27 December 1994. Natural Park Marjal-Oliva is a natural area is situated right in the towns of Pego and Oliva, provinces of Alicante and Valencia, Valencia, Spain. 1250 This place has been declared a nature reserve by the Valencian government on 27 December 1994.

Archaeological sites

The municipality of Pego is full of archaeological remains tell us so that man since antiquity have lived in this valley benefited from the mountain, the proximity of the Mediterranean and the abundance of water. In Ambra are the remains of Neolithic pottery, like the Green Muntañeta, the mountains of Bullent. In the late Paleolithic and Neolithic in the cave habitats are some of the mountains pegolinas.

Right Time to Visit

March - July

Temperature

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