
The
Hotel Casa del Gobernador it guarantees a calm, original and comfortable
stay in a place of unusual beauty, the island of Tabarca declared Artistic
Historical Group, Reserves Marina from the Mediterranean and Good of
Cultural Interest. It is located, eleven miles to the south of the city of
Alicante, in the continuation of the End of Santa Pola.
With 1.800 m. of longitude and a maximum width of 450 m., all its walled
enclosure was built between 1760 and 1768 thanks to the king's initiative
Carlos III that colonized the island with 600 fishermen genoveses redeemed
by the king of its captivity in the port tunecino of Tabarka, of there the
name of the Island and the that its inhabitants possess Italian last names.
Doors, walls of San Pedro's church and San Pablo as well as the tower of
outside of San José they configure the monumental group to the one that to
add the old residence of the Governor of the place, the current hotel that
conserves the reserve of their arches of half point and their interior seat
stones, of the XVIII century.
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