Costa Blanca
Alicante
Alicante 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 kilometres and attracts many sun worshippers and pleasure seekers.
The sun in Alicante shines vertically. Alicante's exceptional location between the mountains and the sea provides the city with a special kind of enrapturing beauty. The city, wherever oneroams, is pervaded with the savour of the sea, playing its deeply-felt role as a seaport, as it has always done.
As Juan Gil-Albert said, "Alicante looks uninterruptedly to the Mediterranean", or in the words of Gabriel Miró "my city is pierced through and through by the Mediterranean". Another native author, Joan Fuster, wrote that Alicante "is without a doubt, the friendliest of all Valencian cities, a city one would choose to live in if one were to exchange a village for a city".
This love, care and affection shown to Alicante stems from two premises, the first of which is its privileged location and the second the mildness of its climate, with an average year round temperature of 18°C. Alicante's mild climate makes beach life feasible practically all year round. You certainly have a lot of beaches to choose from. The calendar in Alicante is fuller than usual as far as festivities are concerned. Depending on the season in which you happen to be staying in the city, you can take your pick from an extensive variety of fiestas.
There are many places to have a drink or a bite to eat around town, but we can particularly recommend the old city centre, known as El Barrio. You'll find bars, cafés, taverns, cervecerías, pizza parlours and mesones, each with its own style and personality, where the music never stops, from salsa to jazz, not to mention rock, sevillanas and others.
Golf in Alicante is plentiful. Alicante boasts a wide range of golf courses. The majority of courses cater for holidaymakers or in the area for short-term visitors and therefore do not allow bookings more than 7 days in advance (unless booking in large groups). If you are quite flexible, you should not have a problem getting a booking with as little as a day’s notice. A few of the many golf courses in Alicante are Alicante Golf Club, Algorfa Golf Club, Villamartin Golf Course and Real Club de Golf Campoamor.