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Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, led one of history’s greatest military marches the length of the Costa Blanca to France and Italy, crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps, in the hope of surprising an unsuspecting Rome.
In five minutes the funicular (closed mid-October through February) lifts you through pine woods to the top, where you have a spectacular panorama of the city, the sea coast, and, on very clear days, both Mallorca and the Pyrenees.
His successor, Ramón Berenguer IV, united Catalonia with neighboring Aragón by marriage, and his son Alfonso II became the first joint-king of Aragón and Catalonia and was known as “the Emperor of the Pyrenees.”
When Celtic peoples crossed the Pyrenees in the first millennium b.c., they intermarried with the existing Iberian population and built a series of hilltop fort communities or citânias, the finest example of which is at Briteiros (see page 73).
But they’re also active sports enthusiasts, eager to escape the city for a round of golf, sailing, or skiing (only a couple hours away in the Pyrenees).