There is a category of address where the honest answer to “how long will you be” depends less on distance than on where a vehicle can legally stop.
Most of the historic core of Elche is a pedestrian zone. The streets around the basilica, the old walled quarter, the lanes that thread between the palm orchards — a van does not go in. Calle Candalix has been pedestrianised from Avenida de la Libertad through to Calle Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza and folded into the walking routes of the urban park. That is good for the city and entirely normal to work around, as long as everybody knows in advance.
The one sentence that helps
When you ring, say the nearest street a vehicle can actually reach.
That is it. Not your postcode, not a description of the square. A locksmith who knows they are stopping on a particular corner and walking the last two hundred metres brings the right bag the first time. A locksmith who discovers it on arrival makes a trip back to the van, and you stand outside for that trip.
Why it changes the job, not just the journey
A pedestrian street means everything comes in by hand, so what gets carried is chosen before leaving. If the description was “flat door, pulled shut”, that is a light kit. If it turns out to be an armoured door with a deadlocked multipoint mechanism, that is a different bag, and it is back at the van.
So the second useful sentence is what the door actually is. Timber, armoured, uPVC, metal. If you do not know, a photo on WhatsApp settles it in four seconds.
The old town’s other quirk
The doors themselves. A lot of the stock in the Vila Murada and around Horts i Molins is original timber with locks that have been in place for decades, often on properties that back directly onto the walled palm orchards. Those locks are frequently repairable and frequently irreplaceable — the door is part of the character of the building and nobody wants a modern unit screwed into it.
They also respond badly to force and rather well to patience, which is the opposite of what an impatient approach assumes. It is one of the few places where the slow method is not only cheaper but the only one that leaves you with the door you had.
And in August
Add the fiesta closures between the 7th and the 15th, when the pedestrian area effectively expands and the diversions change daily. On those dates, “the nearest street a vehicle can reach” stops being a convenience and becomes the whole of the routing problem.
If this is where you have got to, the page you want next is getting a closed door open.