South of Denia and north of Jávea, under a cliff in the Cap de Sant Antoni Marine Reserve, hides the Cova Tallada, a 400-metre-long cave open to the sea. The cave was carved for the extraction of rough rock, a material already used by the Arabs in the construction of their castles. It can be reached from the area of Les Rotes along a route that overlooks beautiful corners of the Mediterranean Sea. At the end you have to walk over the rocks to the mouth of the grotto. Like in an adventure book, the marks on the walls of generations of stonecutters tell its history and take you back to Roman times, to the fishing trips of King Philip III who frequented it and to its use as a marine hideout during the Second World War.