Alicante Tourist information, Alicante Attractions & Alicante Guide, Costa Blanca, Spain
Top Attractions and places to visit in Alicante
Santa Barbara Castle (Castillo Santa Barbara)
- Alicante's Top Attraction
- Very Large Fortress
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Basilica of Santa Maria
- Alicante #2 Attraction
- Oldest Church
- Fabulous Carved Entrance
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Sant Nicolau Co-Cathedral
- Alicante #3 Attraction
- Interior better than exterior
- Impressive blue dome
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Top Beaches in Alicante
- Great Blue Flag Beaches
- Most popular Postiguet Beach
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Barri Santa Creu
- Some very Pretty Narrow Streets
- Oldest area of Alicante
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Alicante Top Shopping
- Street & Indoor Markets
- Shopping Centres
- Shopping Streets
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Top Tours from Alicante
- Guadalest
- Algar Waterfalls
- Altea & More
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Top Tours in Alicante
- Popular places they visit
- Santa Barbara Castle
- Churches
- Esplanade & More
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Top Alicante Bars Restaurants
- Top popular locations
- Explanada de España
- Santa Cruz
- Central Market
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Town Hall Alicante(Ayuntamiento)
Town Hall Alicante
Town Hall Description
- You can enter the Town Hall in the morning on Monday to Friday, for Free
- Designed as a Palace by the architect Lorenzo Chapula
- The elegant Baroque town hall was completed in 1760.
- The 2 towers are 165 foot high and built over archways allowing the visitor to access the other side of the building. You can't go up the tower.
- One of the towers contains a clock on the front and back faces of the tower.
- Between the 2 towers is a stone balustrade and a central shorter tower capped with a blue tiled dome set back so is not noticed if viewing from close to the building.
- the Blue Room (Salon Azul), and the ", The magnificent main staircase, the Salon Azul, and the chapel.
Cota Cero" (Ground Zero - sea level marker)
The marker is located n the bottom step of the magnificent main staircase
St John sculpture by Salvador Dali
Town Hall Location
- Located 150 metres back from the sea front esplanade at the corner of the Eastern harbour sea wall, and the Casa Carbonell
- Address: Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 1 The plaza has cafes
See Location of Town Hall on our Alicante Map
Carbonell House (Casa Carbonell) Alicante
Casa Carbonell Alicante
Casa Carbonell Description
- This outstanding building was built for the extremely rich textile magnate Enrique Carbonell from Alcoy, by the architect Juan Vidal Ramos between 1922 and 1925.
- You can enjoy the exterior look of the building, from the Explanada de España on the sea front. but it is now an office and private apartment building so you can't visit it
Casa Carbonell Location
- Located right on the sea front promenade, 1 Calle de l'Explanada de España opposite the eastern corner of the Marina.
See Location of Casa Carbonell on our Alicante Map
Explanada de España. The Alicante Promenade
Alicante Canalejas Park is an extension to Esplanada d'Espanya in a south westerly direction
Alicante Mosaic Pavement, Esplanada d'Espanya
Alicante Explanada de España Description
- The section next to the Marina has got to be one of the best promenades any where in the world. Very wide with lines of palm and other trees, plenty of bars restaurants and cafes and occasional events.
- The pattern is made up of o
- The wavy mosaic pattern of very wide pavement, represents waves on the sea is made from over 6 million tiles
- Look out for the pavement shown in our photograph, click photo to enlarge, and note how it is in undulating between low and higher sections. This effect is an optical illusion caused by the pattern and is in fact perfectly flat.
- Some people can experience kind of dizzy feeling or vertigo when walking along this pavement.
- The effect is so realistic that some people can not walk on it
- Very popular evening promenade location for the local.
La Concha
La Concha is an open air auditorium that hosts events & concerts on a regular basis
Open Air Craft Market
- One section of the promenade has an area of open air market stalls selling mainly craft items in summer evenings into the night.
- The best part of the promenade backs the full length of Alicante port / maria and eastwards for about 200 metres backing the beach that continues up to La Marina Tram Station
See Location of Alicante Promenade on our Alicante Map
The Mushroom Street (Calle de las Seta)
Interactive Photo of the Mushroom Street
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- The Mushroom Street (Setas Street) is amazing.
- A narrow pedestrian street in the center of Alicante full of giant man made mushrooms painted in bright colours. Some are tall around 3m & some are short & fat forming fairyland houses which kids can enter.
- It is a 130m central stretch of the longer Calle San Francisco that runs between Plaza Portal de Elche & Plaza Calvo Sotelo
- Both of these plazas are also worth a look at:
- Plaza Portal de Elche has a small central cafe with tables set out under the plazas trees.
- Plaza Calvo Sotelo. Bench seating under the trees, a small kids playground & a cafe in the corner with tables in the plaza.
- The street floor is painted in green & yellow with a couple of hopscotch patches also painted.
- What used to be a street with a rather dubious reputation has been totally transformed with a 66.000 euro make over into a tourist attraction.
- This street is well worth a visit, especially if you have young children. They will love entering the mushroom with entrances & windows , looking at the faces on the mushrooms & the giant snails on the topa using the slides & having a game of hopscotch.
- Adults will also be interested with the shops, cafes & bars.
Children's Adventure Playground Free
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- Sections for younger & for more channelling for older children
- Bench seating around the playground'.
- Área de juegos Tossal La Aneja, Parc del Tossal
Plaza de Luceros
Plaza de Luceros
Cafe in Plaza de Luceros Alicante
Plaza de Luceros Description
- A large circular plaza with a roundabout at the junction of the 2 main roads. In the centre of the roundabout is a tall imposing monument with Beautifull statues, sculptures and carvings consisting of 4 horses, the four seasons
- The monument is surrounded by water jet fountains
- A ring of palm trees surround the roundabout and a second larger ring around the Plaza
- An underground tram station, Luceros, along with car parking opened under the Plaza in June 2010
- Luceros Tram Station is the nearest tram stop for Alicante Railway Station
- This is a nice spot to enjoy a break at one of the pavement bar / cafe/ restaurants in the Plaza
Plaza de Luceros Location
- At the Junction of Avenida de Alfonso el Sabio, Avenida de la Estación Paseo de Soto and the Paseo General Marv
See Location of Plaza de Luceros on our Alicante Map
El Ereta Park
El Ereta Sign
El Ereta Park Description
- The most interesting of the several paths up to the castle is through The old district of Alicante, Barri Santa Cruz then via Ereta Park which will take you through one of two entrances through the Town Wall which runs up to the cliff base under the castle.
El Ereta Park Location
El Ereta Park is located on the South Western slopes of Mount Benacantil. It is located between the Santa Barbara castle and the old part of Alicante.,Barrio Santa Cruz
If you are feeling fit it is a steep uphill climb to the castle and takes around 30 minutes
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Tours from Alicante
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Tours in Alicante
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Provincial Council Alicante
Alicante Provincial Council
Alicante Provincial Council Description
Free Admission
The Alicante Provincial Council building is on a busy road, Avda. de la Estacion. It was built by Juan Ramos a famous Alicante architect in 1928. Who also built the Edificio Carbonell Building which stands at number 1 on the Explanada de España.
Once you are inside this beautiful building there is an art gallery and also 'Garden of Celebrates' which has 'monuments' honouring Alicante's celebrities.
The architecture is influenced by the Italian and Baroque neoclassical style of the Bourbon palaces in Madrid.
The role of the Alicante Provincial Council is to cover all the municipalities that make up the province of Alicante. The Provincial Council is formed by elected representatives from the municipal councillors. It is headed by a president.
Alicante Provincial Council Location
Address: Avda. de la Estación, 6, Alicante
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MARQ Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueologico MARQ)
MARQ Museum
MARQ Archaeological Museum Description
The MARQ Museum is a traditional museum with items being classified and indexed, but displays it's artefacts in a modern artistic manner and also uses audio / visual displays.
There is a small entrance fee with concession prices for students, Senior citizens etc.
MARQ Archaeological Museum Location
The museum is located 200 metres North from the underground MARQ tram station, behind the Sanitarium Hospital, Casa Reposo y Sanatorio del Perpetuo Socorro
Address: Plaza del Doctor Gómez Ulla, Alicante. Telephone: 965 149 000 Website Click the Union Flag for English pages
Bus: Routes 2,6,9,20 and 23
Tram Lines 1,2,3 Tram Station Marq
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La Ciudad Descubierta (The Discovered City Museum
The Old City Walls
Alicante Bullring (Plaza de Toros) & Bullfighting Museum (Museo Taurino)
Alicante Bullring (Plaza de Toros)
Bullfighting Museum
Bullring (Plaza de Toros) & Bullfighting Museum Description
A permanent collection of bull fighting artefacts and memorabilia. See the beautiful suit of lights, matador capes and sword. There is also some stuffed bulls heads mounted on the walls.
Bullring (Plaza de Toros) & Bullfighting Museum Location
The museum is located next to the Alicante Bullring (Plaza de Toros, 7). The sand coloured building just in front of the bullring and left of photograph centre and church dome
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Nativity Museum (Museo de Belenes)
Museo de Belenes Description
Houses a world collection of figures& includes the different aspects of the birth and life of Jesus Christ,
In Spain families tend to have a nativity scene as the centre piece of there Christmas decorations in place of the British tradition of a Christmas tree.
Museo de Belenes Location
Located 100 metres north of the just up the road from the tree lined square to the rear of Town Hall
Address: c / San Agustín, 3, 03002, Alicante, Spain
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El Palmeral Park
El Palmeral Park
El Palmeral Park is beautiful and a local favourite park in Alicante. The park has trails to walk along, lakes, with boats, streams, children's playgrounds, picnic tables, a concert area, toilets, cafe bar, and a cross country cycling circuit & BMX track
Near the main road the park is maintained with 100's of palm trees and much greener than the rougher scrub land with walking trails further inland
El Palmeral Park Location
600 metres south of the southern section of the port on the land ward side of the coastal road, Avenida de Elche.
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Modern Art Museum (Museo de Arte Moderno)
Museo de Arte Moderno Location
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The Harbour & Boat Trips
Alicante Boat Trips
Island of Tabarca (Isla Tabarca)
The Isla Tabarca is located 3 miles from Santa Pola and 11 miles from Alicante. The island declared an historic monument in 1964 The island has fortified walls, bastion and doorways and was a an island from which pirates operated in ancient times.
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