Historical artistic monuments, sixteen kilometres of coastline, six museums, more than ten thousand palm trees, thirty pasos procesionales (processional sculptures) and a poet. These figures give a notion of attractive nature of Orihuela. Besides which, this information is accompanied by quality, and is brought together in a term of long beaches and hidden coves steeped in history. A municipality, su pueblo y el mío, that gave form to the first poems of Miguel Hernández, who shaped his memories of the surrounding fertile land.

The metropolitan area of Orihuelaincludes the eleven municipalites of Orihuela, (...)

Historical artistic monuments, sixteen kilometres of coastline, six museums, more than ten thousand palm trees, thirty pasos procesionales (processional sculptures) and a poet. These figures give a notion of attractive nature of Orihuela. Besides which, this information is accompanied by quality, and is brought together in a term of long beaches and hidden coves steeped in history. A municipality, su pueblo y el mío, that gave form to the first poems of Miguel Hernández, who shaped his memories of the surrounding fertile land.

The metropolitan area of Orihuelaincludes the eleven municipalites of Orihuela, Benejúzar, Benferri, Beniel, Bigastro, Callosa de Segura, Cox, Jacarilla, Rafal, Redován and Santomera. It had a total population of 151,358 inhabitants in the beginning of 2006, and a total area of 510,3 km².

The metropolitan area of Orihuelais also a part of the larger Murcia-Orihuela conurbation, with a total population of 727,741 inhabitants (2006) and an area of 1,743.5 km².

The most important architectonic monuments of Orihuelaare an Arabic castle with its towers, a Catholic cathedral built between the 14th and 16th centuries and the Baroque church of Santo Domingo.