On Sundays and fiestas, in the afternoon, traditional games of pelota are played in the narrow streets near Altea's church square.
Traditional games of pelota can be seen being played on Sunday and fiesta day afternoons.
Designed as a belvedere for Cardinal Capra in 1567, it's an exquisite piece of applied geometry, a domed rotunda set in a square surrounded on all four sides by simple Ionic-columned porticoes.