El Castell de Guadalest
Visit this historic town and enjoy walking the cobbled streets, 
museums and castles. Don’t forget your camera! Leave the picnic at home. There’s plenty of cafes and bars to choose from.
Guadalest is a popular tourist attraction located in Valencia. Enter the town through the carved rocks and marvel at the castle ruins and church belfry which sit on the mountains edge. Photograph the Penan de la Alcala.
Guadalest is a remote location but still offers a thriving town, winding streets lined with white-washed houses lead to the castle. Street De la Pena is home to the town hall and dungeons dating back to the 12th century.
A maze of cobbled streets offer cafes and bars and provide a great place to dine ‘al fresco’. If you enjoy spectacular views you will enjoy visiting Guadalest, head to the top and take in the mountain views, cropped hillsides and the river below.
To take in more history there are various museums to visit and a castle tour. If you fancy getting off your feet for a while the local reservoir offers boat trips, so you can see even more of Guadalest.
Historical Automobile Museum ‘Vall De Guadalest’
‘’A museum of motorcycles, cars and machines from the 1920’s to 1970’s. Onsite restaurant and car parking/gardens available to visitors.’’
If you have an interest in motorbikes, cars or historical machinery then the Vall De Guadalest is worth a visit. Located in the Guadalest Valley between Callosa and Guadalest this museum is home to 25 years of pain-staking restoration work.
The collection boasts over 100 motorcycles and small cars dated from 1920 to 1970, all restored to perfect condition. In addition to the motorcycles and cars there is also a number of historical machines on display including sewing machines, typewriters, coffee makers, telephones, radios and more.
There is a large car park on site and visitors can also make use of the spacious gardens.
Pricing Range: Not Yet Known
Target Age Range: 6 years plus
Address: Ctra. Callosa–Guadalest, Km 7 (near the restaurant El Riu), Postal Code: 03517
http://www.museovehiculosguadalest.com/ Get Directions Link
There is also an unusual museum of salt and pepper shakers!
In the town of El Castell de Guadalest, as well as its famous castle, you can visit the new museum of salt and pepper shakers featuring over 20,000 examples collected over the last 25 years by Andrea Ludden.
They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from birds or chickens to astronauts and washing machines. All of these, together with a wide variety of pepper grinders, including some very large ones, will leave visitors astonished.
Guadalest is perched 595 metres high on a crag, less than 30 km from Altea and Calpe, about 60 km from Alicante and 140 km from the capital of the Region of Valencia, making it an ideal place to exhibit this collection.
Public car parking is available.
Pricing Range FREE – €10pp
Target Age Range Early Teens – Adults
More information available here.
Link to Guadalest
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Guadalest is truly beautiful, but I have to say the Salt Pepper Shaker Museum was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. If you take the time to slowly walk through the museum and look at the thousands of pieces, you’ll find yourself caught up in an entire world described through s&p sets…fascinating!