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Fuentes del Algar: 7 natural pools 42 km from Alicante
An underground river surfaces at the foot of the Sierra de Bernia and tumbles through seven limestone pools. 42 km from Alicante via the AP-7, exit 65.
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Corners, streets and secrets of the city that make you fall in love at first sight.
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Fondillón of Alicante: 10 Years in Solera, Only 11 Wineries
Fondillón uses only Monastrell grapes overripened on the vine and ages at least 10 years in solera. In Alicante, just 11 wineries are licensed to make it.
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Palmeral of Elche: 200,000 Unesco Palms 20 km from Alicante
500 hectares of date palms, a 10th-century Arab irrigation network and a 2000 Unesco listing. Walking the Costa Blanca oasis 20 km from Alicante.
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Tibi Reservoir: the 1594 dam still watering Alicante
Felipe II commissioned it in 1580. 46 metres tall, still watering the Alicante huerta since 1594, and Europe's oldest modern dam in active use.
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Alicante Air Raid Shelters: 94 Civil War Bunkers Under the City
94 shelters dug between 1936 and 1939, a 51-meter gallery for 1,200 under Plaza Séneca, and the bombing that killed 300 on 25 May 1938 at the Mercado Central.
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MACA Alicante: 177 free 20th-century works in the old town
MACA shows 177 free works by Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Chillida inside the Casa de la Asegurada, Alicante's oldest civil building, open since 1977.
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Saint Nicholas Co-Cathedral: Alicante's 45-Metre Sober Dome
The Herrerian temple Agustín Bernardino raised between 1613 and 1662 over an old mosque, co-cathedral of Orihuela-Alicante since 9 March 1959.
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MARQ Alicante: the archaeology museum awarded by Europe in 2004
European Museum of the Year 2004, 9,200 m² in the former Provincial Hospital of 1929. Five rooms walk Alicante from prehistory to today.
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Salinas de Santa Pola: 8,000 Flamingos 20 km From Alicante
A 2,470-hectare Ramsar wetland with pink flamingos, salt mountains and salt-making since Roman times. Twenty kilometres south of Alicante along the N-332.
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Santa Bárbara Castle: a thousand years atop Mount Benacantil
It dominates the city from 167 metres of altitude and holds ten centuries of history. This is what Santa Bárbara Castle tells those who climb up.
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Monastery of the Santa Faz: the face that walks with Alicante
At kilometer 8 of the Valencia road, a 15th-century cloth is kept inside a baroque monastery. Every spring, 330,000 people walk to it at dawn.
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Lucentum: the Roman city that gave Alicante its name
Three kilometres north of the centre, a low hill above La Albufereta holds two thousand years of stone: Tossal de Manises, the Roman Lucentum that gave Alicante its name.
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Hogueras de San Juan: how Alicante burns in June
From June 20 to 24, nearly two hundred bonfires rise across the city, and at midnight on the 24th they all burn. This is Alicante's biggest festival.
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Castillo de San Fernando: the forgotten fortress of El Tossal
On El Tossal, facing Santa Barbara, stands a castle that never fired a cannon. Its story is quiet, but the view it offers changes everything.
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Barrio Santa Cruz: the white village under Alicante's castle
Steep streets, whitewashed facades, flowerpots that compete in May. The neighborhood climbing up the Benacantil is the oldest face of Alicante.
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Tabarca: the walled island that faces Alicante
A 30-minute ferry from Santa Pola: 30 hectares, Baroque walls and Spain's first marine reserve. A waking dream across the bay from Alicante.
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Alicante's Central Market: Stone Soul and Living Flavour
A Valencian modernist building feeding Alicante for over a century. Explore its history, stalls, and what it means to live right next door.
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From the Explanada to the castle: Alicante's heart on foot
A walk of less than two kilometres connects the marble mosaic of the Explanada to the walls of Santa Bárbara Castle. Do it once and you'll understand why so many people decide to stay.
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Six streets that turn Alicante into a waking dream
Mosaics that mimic the waves, staircases dressed in flowers, hidden 17th-century palaces tucked into narrow alleys. Alicante isn't walked — it's breathed. Here are the six streets that say it all.