Top Museums in Alicante
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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Alicante City Museum (MUSA)
The Alicante City Museum (MUSA), located in Santa Barbara Castle , immerses you in the history of the city through its five rooms.
The Engineers Corps Building , also the Visitor Information Center, houses archaeological remains and an audiovisual presentation on the history of Alicante.
The Old Hospital displays the exhibition "Alicante, Transcended by the Mediterranean ," while in the Long Room (Sala Larga) is the exhibition "Stories and People" allows visitors to see the old medieval gate of the fortress.
The English Caves feature "The Mine Explosion" during the War of Succession, the British who had occupied the castle for almost 3 years had to surrender, and were allowed to leave the city ad sail away.
The old dungeons under the Plaza de Armas, have a difficult access and are accessible only with a guide appointed by the castle., add a touch of mystery to the experience., which is a unique tour that connects the city's past with its present in an incomparable historical setting.
The Discovered City Museum (La Ciudad Descubierta)
An excavation site on the ground floor and basement of a building. The Old City
Alicante Bullring (Plaza de Toros) & Bullfighting Museum (Museo Taurino) Alicante
Alicante Bull Ring Exterior
Located in the city center.
It is one of the few bullring still offering regular bull fights. in Spain
Bullfighting Museum Alicante
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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Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante (MACA)
Alicante Old Town
Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante Location
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