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Alicante Train Station

Alicante is one of the provinces most surprising and growing and flourishing in Spain. It is the fourth largest city in Spain Tota GDP (Gross Domestic Product) behind the Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. This expansion is reflected in the tourist offer larger and more diversified in Spain, especially in its coastal orgasms that the best climate of the country. Modernity goes together with traditional corners of the mountain regions of the Marinas and COIA. There are great contrasts: the tourist areas with a minority of residents of England, Germany and the Nordic countries in the region of the Marina Alta and in areas of the mountain, with a gastronomic offer the best of Spain. And secondly, there are areas of mass tourism as Benidorm, Torrevieja, Alicante, etc

Things to visit in the city of Alicante

The city of Alicante is rather small and it is an appetizer with a provincial area so rich in offers:

Walk:

it's very pleasant to walk through Explanada de España Postiguet Beach and the modern neighborhood of Port (Panorama) with restaurants, bars, cafés, pubs, discos, ... A few miles from the center and connected by train, they lie the beaches of San Juan and El Campello. There are 6 km. the promenade is pretty nice.

Castles:

The Castle of Santa Bárbara with magnificent views from Postiguet beach, the Port and its surrounding cities. Castillo de San Fernando.

Cathedral and churches

the greater wealth of Alicante lies the town of Orihuela. Nevertheless, there are interesting things in the city of Alicante that well worth a visit: Con Cathedral of San Nicolás (XVI century), Chapel Communion. Monasteries and Churches: Iglesia de Santa María Monasterio de Santa Faz.

Museums:

MARQ Museo Arqueológico, is one of the best in Europe as a specialty, ailleurrs him and the Guggenheim Bilbao they are the only ones to have received the award for Best European Museum of the Year; Museum of Belenes (from nurseries); Asegurada Museum (contemporary art; Sempere, Miró, Dalí, Picasso ...); Museo universitario MUA is a beautiful modern building of the University of Alicante, with very interesting exhibits, and that now he is the best university museum in Spain.
Tossal Manises. Iberian remains novels, they are the first antecedent in the city of Alicante.
Alcudia Museo Archeological Museum.

Purchasing:

we recommend you buy the typical products of the region as: Cured: mojama, hueva (nets and dried eggs of tuna you eat as an appetizer), Jijona of nougat, chocolates from Vilajoyosa, Fondillon sweet wine. In baked goods we recommend you buy: coca and coca amb mollitas tonyina (sort of pizza or bread in the oven with tuna, tomatoes, onions, flour ...)

Alicante Cuisine:

The rice are the Kings of gastronomy in the region of Alicante. The art of cooking rice has a level of supreme perfection. They are prepared with fish and seafood, chicken, rabbit, pork, pork, vegetables and pulses, Alicante is ... undisputed leader in the preparation of rice.

Apart from rice, there is the whole kitchen area levantina cocina, with a broad menu of dishes typical. Fish and seafood are very good, he is one of a few exceptional as is the case of the Gamba Denia red (red prawns)

The smothered the mountain (like Olleta), cured meats (tuna salted fish eggs ...), fresh vegetables from the land of the Vega Baja del Segura (like the excellent artichoke), oranges and lemons, nísperos (loquat) of the district of La Marina Baja, cherries from the land of the Marina Alta, grenades in the village of Albatera, Dátil los frescos de Elche (fresh dates), olive oil-a little bitter-village Cocentaina. Not to mention the spices Novelda (Carmencita).

Pastry salt: coca mollitas (bread baked with flour from above), coca tonyna (bread baked with tuna). Confectionery Sweet Christmas, as turrones Jijona and other desserts (almond) almendra, chocolate Vilajoyosa of the extraordinary pastry Paco Torreblanca to Elda-Petre (he prepared the wedding cake of Princes of Asturias), including the delicious ice Jijona.

Cities of Alicante:

Elche: it is community for its palm trees and dates. It is the largest city after Alicante. Alcoy: he lived his most important period when the industrial revolution, because of its textile industries. It is well known for its traditional fiestas of "Moors and Christians".

Elda-Petrer: small town famous for its plants and factories FOOTWEAR leather goods. It has a nice castle. If you eat in Elda, go to the Restaurant La Sirena and buy some cakes in the pastry Paco Torreblanca, it is the best chocolate of Spain and author of the wedding cake of the Princes of Asturias (placed in the same street).

Benidorm is the top tourism on the Costa Blanca and he was inspired to create the famous logo "everything under the sun". Theme Park Terra Mitica and Terra Natura, Mundomar and a large water park. Nearby there are two mountain villages and Callosa Guadalest also well known to tourists. Looking for the best opportunity to fly to Alicante.

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