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Alicante features a small city centre, so that you can visit most of the tourist locations by foot. The city is pre-historical thus there are various historical places of interests in Alicante which are worth a trip. Iglesia de Santa Maria - the 15th century church ? is one such edifice, also the oldest in Alicante. The interesting aspect with Iglesia de Santa Maria is that it was a mosque during the Moorish times. The MUBAG and Town Hall are situated quite nearby. Located 5km through the city centre could be the Monastery de la Santa Faz, the great tourist attraction worth visiting. Between June 25 and 26, 1876, a combined force of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne led the United States 7th Cavalry in to a battle near the Little Bighorn River in what was then the eastern fringe of the Montana Territory. The engagement is well known by several names: the Battle of Greasy Grass, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Custer's Last Stand. Perhaps the most well-known action in the Indian Wars, it absolutely was a remarkable victory for Sitting Bull and his awesome forces. They defeated a column of seven hundred men led by George Armstrong Custer; five in the Seventh's companies were annihilated and Custer himself was killed in the engagement together with two of his brothers and a brother-in-law. Known as the battle that left no white survivors, Little Big Horn has inspired more than 1,000 pieces of art, including over 40 films. Here are four of the best...