Scientists have evidence of human settlements.

Until now it was believed that the Quarry Shelter was 6,000 years old, but the latest scientific work could go back that date to 15,000 years, that is, to the Magadalenian period, one of the last stages of the Upper Paleolithic.

The tests they have found are:

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It was then a population that lived before the Age of Metal, which used the flint as the main instrument for survival and also suffered the rigors of the end of the last glaciation on the planet.

Remains of flora species that are currently extinct, such as black pine, which in the Pleistocene era was distributed throughout most of the Mediterranean area and which integrated the forests in Sierra Helada.

They have also detected traces of animals that were hunted by those people as wild horses and uros (likewise missing), deer or mountain goats.
Remains of lesser fauna such as rabbits or terrestrial molluscs -cacals- that also served for human supply have been located.

They have also found traces of chert, according Llinares used to "make very fine cuts of delicacies of the time as the bone marrow."

The Councilor for Heritage revealed that "the pearl of the excavation may be a small seashell that served as an ornament for women" and that it would show that during that era "there was already an aesthetic concern". That shell was accompanied by a manual work, as it appears filed on its back and has perforations. Other adornments of the time have also been found with similar purpose.

 

The coat of the Quarry of Sierra Helada, without a doubt one of the greatest historical and ethnographic treasures of Benidorm, is nevertheless in danger due to the risk of expoliation, which has already occurred in the most recent past.​

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Dry stone masonry refers to a construction technique of origin
traditional and popular that is made by using stones from the environment but without
no type of mortar or mortar that the one, simply because of its correct
disposition, to the maximum contact between pieces and to the own gravity.

The masonry walls used to haul the natural environment have the advantage of taking advantage of a large amount of local stones, making the new area for cultivation easier for the plowing work, the slopes are minimized, which facilitates the agricultural areas are used for agriculture that previously could not be used and at the same time decreases the erosive processes in these areas, this last advantage has been decisive for the permanence of fertile soil in our natural environment in these old cultivation terraces avoiding the Plant degradation of the species present.

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One of the best-known legends of the region is based on the Puig Campana: the legend of the Roldán Pit. Roldan was one of the commanders of the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne. Legend has it that he came to our lands and fell in love with a maiden. Thus began a love story that was cut short when a curse predicted that the girl would die the moment the last ray of sun touched her skin. Roldán, desperate, climbed to the top of Puig Campana, drew his sword and broke a piece of the mountain to prolong the life of his beloved. When the sun disappeared behind Puig Campana, the girl died and
Roldán, mad with pain, took the piece of rock he had cut and threw it into the sea, giving rise to the island of Benidorm.

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The islet of Benidorm has the same structural arrangement and the same Cretaceous age rocks as the Serra Gelada, while the bell Puig rocks are different and were formed during the Jurassic.

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The constructions that you see in this ravine are the remains of a red ocher mine. This modest farm was called Virgen del Carmen Mine and it operated from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.
At the end of the 19th century the mine was directed by the Soler-Devesa, an Alfasian family whose nickname is now the Mine. The foreman was Miguel Soler Devesa who, in 1888, emigrated to Algeria leaving his wife, Esperanza, at the head of the workers. The preserved remains correspond to the housing of the foreman. The line of pillars that go down the ravine served as support for the rails of the wagons that carried the ore to the shore. Once here the ocher embarked on barges that transported it to a ship anchored in the bay.
The ocher is a mixture of clay with oxide or iron hydroxide that was used, since prehistory, as a coloring for paint. If you look to the front you will see one of the mouths of the mine.

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This tunnel and the current road of the lighthouse were not built until 1961. The original road, laid out with the construction of the lighthouse in 1863, was a narrow and steep path that crossed the mountain. The route in some sections was dangerous even for the pack animals.

The Bombarda tower, a seventeenth-century watchtower four meters high that served to warn of frequent attacks by Berber pirates.

The Caletes tower  is a defensive tower of the sixteenth century that is located in the Punta de las Caletas or Punta del Cavall at low altitude above sea leve.

It is a frustoconical tower whose base measures approximately eight meters in diameter. The factory is made of irregular masonry plastered with lime mortar.
At the moment only the base is conserved until a height approximately seven meters, being all it massive, on which the body was located destined to the watchmen, like in other neighboring towers.