Museum of the Wall

The Museum of the Wall is the result of the excavations carried out between 1998 and 2000 on the site of the Casa del Paso, on the occasion of the construction of the lecture hall of the Campus de las Salesas, of the Miguel Hernández University in Orihuela.

Thanks to an important museographic project, the finds can be visited through a perimeter corridor and glass walkways that enter the ruins. The different elements are explained through a video, panels, location lecterns, models and the materials displayed in display cases. 

The main architectural elements preserved are the following:

City walls
Declared B.I.C. on 14-12-1998. It dates between the second half of the twelfth century and the first half of the thirteenth century (Almohad period), with some subsequent reforms. It is made of concrete rammed earth, four towers and about 80 meters of wall lines are preserved. 

Islamic and late medieval dwellings
Open to the street that runs parallel to the wall is a group of quadrangular houses with a central courtyard dating from the Islamic period, in the Almohad period, transformed and reused in the late medieval period.

Arab baths
The purpose of the bath or Hammam is above all religious; it is also a social meeting place, in addition to having therapeutic or medicinal functions. The baths preserved in the museum are located outside the walls and were in all probability for public use. They also date from the second half of the twelfth century and the first half of the thirteenth, having lasted until the late Christian medieval period.

Gothic Palace
Palace of the Infante Ferdinand of Aragon (son of King Alfonso IV the Benign of Aragon and Eleanor of Castile), Lord of Orihuela in the second half of the fourteenth century. Rectangular building, attached to the inner face of the wall. Structured around two courtyards. It features a main room with pillars attached to the walls and two interesting doorways, decorated with typically Gothic elements.

Casa del Paso
An old manor house from the eighteenth century, built on part of the wall, of which some remains have been preserved. Similar to others in the city built in the same century, it stood out for the hierarchy of its openings and for the coat of arms on the corner.