At the beginning of 1359, at the height of the conflict between the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, King Peter I of Castile assembled a large fleet in Seville, with the idea of attacking Barcelona, where it was defeated by the Aragonese.
The Castilian king ordered the siege to be lifted and had his men embark, directing the fleet towards Calp. There, with the profile offered by the Peñón de Ifach, he could plan a strategy to surprise the Aragonese fleet, finding a good place to wait, battle and settle the issue of supremacy in the sea.
As the Aragonese, anchored in Denia, did not get round to attacking, the Castilians, in order to lure them to Calp, decided to attack the town of Ifach, destroying part of the wall, as well as seriously damaging the rest of the public buildings, houses and even the church.
In the excavations being carried out in Ifach, we are studying the remains of this destruction, documenting the large number of remains left there by its inhabitants.