Alicante Travel Guide

In Alicante you will find bushy vegetation (like thyme, etc.) but also pines, grapevines, olive trees, almond trees, orange trees and lemon trees. Alicante gains its wealth mostly by agriculture, fishing, industry, tourism and trade. Apart from Alicante city, other important centres of economic activity are: Alcoy, Denia, Xabia and Benidorm (seaside resorts).

Alicante resorts

Alicante tourism

in Explanada you can indulge yourselves in a relaxing drink with your partner.

A series of restaurants here will welcome you with palatable dishes and pastries. After your dinner you can visit “La zona”, an area just behind Explanada, for an exciting night full of bars and clubs. If you like stylish decorative clubs and bars you should definitely then visit Ruta de la Madera (Route of Wood), which guarantees a wild nightlife.

Things to do in Alicante

Alicante culture

The Hogueras Museum is located in the Casa de la Festa building. This museum is dedicated to Alicante's most popular festivals: the Hogueras de San Juan. It's a really great exhibition of photographs throughout the years covering some of the truly fantastic festivals of Alicante.

The Provincial Archaeological Museum (Marq) is located in the old Hospital San Juan de Dios. This museum is an extremely valuable collection of some 81,000 pieces dating from the Stone Age to the medieval times.

The Gravina Fine Arts Museum (MUBAG) is situated within the Gravina Palace, which was built during the 17th and 18th centuries and has exhibits of Fine Art dating from the Middle Ages up until 1920. The exhibition includes the works of many significant artists such as Rodrigo de Osona, Salzillo, Vicente López, Antonio Gisbert, Joaquín Agrasot, Xavier Soler, Eusebio Sempere and Emilio Varela.

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