HFF Mascarat Alicante Valencia Spain 26th November 2021

A view of the Mascarat ravine from below with a train just visible on the far bridge.

The Morro de Toix & Bernia Mountains form an east-west barrier between Calpe and Altea on the Costa Blanca coast and the only way through is this very narrow ravine at Mascarat. Since the earliest days the track through the canyon was only passable on foot or by donkey. The first narrow coastal road and classic stone bridge at the front was abandoned & replaced in recent years by the middle bridge carrying the N-332.

The railway bridge opened in 1914 & carried the E.S.A., or Cia de los Ferrocarriles Estrategicos y Secundarios de Alicanterail, a metre gauge railway that runs from Alicante to Denia on the Costa Blanca - now operated by FGV. Like the road the railway runs through tunnels either side of the ravine and the train only briefly appears in the daylight to cross the bridge making photography tricky. Especially from this angle!

HFF to everyone. No snow but Have a great Christmas weekend!