Costa Blanca - Alicante

As the main city of the Costa Blanca, cosmopolitan Alicante has a lot to offer. Suburban living, with access to every amenity imaginable is easily affordable. Authentic Spanish style is to be found in the older parts of town.

Alicante, Spain with its beautiful boulevard and pleasant shopping street, is one of the most well-known towns on the Costa Blanca. The coast of Alicante and the Costa Blanca owes its name to the beaches stretching for several kilometers and attracts many sun worshippers and pleasure seekers.

As for beaches, Alicante's 6km of glorious coast caters to all tastes and needs. Alicante dates back to early Iberian culture, but has absorbed cultural influences from countless sources down the centuries. The archaeology, architecture, arts, crafts and cuisine of Alicante are a wonderful fusion of styles - and a source of never ending pleasure for the historian.Alicante has always been important and while tourism has replaced port activity as the main revenue source in the region, Alicante still has a bustling and vibrant harbour, and it is here that the city comes to life.