Villas in Alicante from Phoenicians to Juan Carlos

Around 1100 BC, Phoenicians from present-day Lebanon we're probably the first with VILLAS IN ALICANTE. They set up trading colonies along the Spanish coast from Alicante to the south. The Greeks having seen the Phoenicians move in soon followed suit, also trading along the north-eastern coast they occupied north of Alicante. With the fall of Phoenicia, the Iberian Peninsula came under the rule of Carthage but was then occupied by Rome following the Punic Wars. The Romans ruled in Iberia for six centuries, laying such important foundations as the Latin language, Roman law, the municipality, the Christian religion, irrigation with the planting of various fruits and the introduction of wine making.