Pueblo
Alicante · Vega Baja
Callosa de Segura
A town pressed against an isolated limestone wall, where a tenth-century castle, protected sierra and remembered hemp industry meet the irrigated plain.
Hemp beneath the limestone wall
A mountain town with an industrial memory
Callosa de Segura sits where the flat huerta ends abruptly against the Sierra de Callosa. Castle ruins and the sanctuary of San Roque occupy the slope above a town whose twentieth-century prosperity grew from hemp, rope and espadrille making.
The municipal hemp museum keeps the tools and working sequences of that trade alive. Above it, the protected sierra preserves archaeology and dry Mediterranean habitats within sight of the irrigated fields.
Fast facts
INE padrón, 1 Jan 2025
- Population
- 19,988
- Change since 2015
- +10%
18,200 in 2015
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New contribution · Summer 2026
Callosa de Segura: hemp, huerta and a mountain wall
How the Sierra de Callosa, the old castle, irrigation and a hemp-working industry shaped one of the Vega Baja's most distinctive inland towns.
Published 2 September 2026
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