The port area of Javea has captured the world’s attention since at least 1908.
It was from 1896 that Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla painted the San Antonio headland and its coves that shelter the Javea port from the north. Sorolla sold some of these paintings in London in 1908 – likely the first time foreigners had seen or heard of Javea.
There’s a lifesize sculpture of Sorolla with an easel on the promenade above the Playa de la Grava, the port’s beach.
He stands in fron
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