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Alicante, Spain, Costa Blanca Region, a perfect location for your Spanish language immersion course in Spain

Alicante: Its location in Spain

Alicante, in the Mediterranean Spanish Cost, is dominated by the two castles of Santa Barbara and San Fernando. From the top of their rocky peaks, they seem to keep an eye on Alicante, whose houses are spread over the hills, gently sloping towards the sea, Alicante harbour, Alicante beaches and the coves: San Juan, the Albufereta, Coco, Postiguet and Saladar beach to the south.

Very few cities can boast of such fine, white sand beaches with such pure water like Alicante.

Alicante offers you both the hubbub of the coast as well as the calm of the inland countryside.

The city of Alicante is surrounded by beaches as well as by many first class tourist centres in the Costa Blanca region. We should not forget the smaller villages in the region of La Marina with towns like Benissa, Javea, Denia or the white Altea.

Castles, fortresses and towns like Elche and Orihuela embellish the fertile inland, full of orange and lemon groves.

Alicante: Population

Around 300,000 inhabitants.

Alicante is a prosperous city, attracting people from different regions in Spain and Europe.

Alicante has grown a lot thanks the continuous expansion of its dynamic services sector.

Alicante: How to get here

There are train and bus stations, a harbour and an international airport. Alicante is located 185 Km from Valencia, 60 Km from Elche, 515 Km from Barcelona and 422 Km from Madrid.

The A-7 toll motorway connects Alicante to all the Mediterranean coast cities. There is also a highway to Madrid.

Bus and train lines link Alicante to all these cities. Airlines offering both regular and charter flights connect Alicante with the main European cities.

More information on how to come to Alicante.

Alicante: Monuments

If you go up the top of the hill of the Santa Barbara Castle, you will discover an unforgettable panoramic view of the most important monuments in Alicante: the church of Santa Maria, the Cathedral, the Town Hall façade, the monastery of Santa Faz, the San Fernando Castle and much more. Seeing all these magnificent monuments from above will invite you to go down the hill and walk among them.

Along Alicante streets, you will come across large and small palaces, as well as traditionally painted white, yellow and pink houses.

In Alicante everything is illuminated by the blue light of the Mediterranean Sea and encourages you to continue walking around and discovering places. You can find the old Mercy House, the Asegurada House, where nowadays the Contemporary Art Museum is situated, the Marquis del Bosch palace, the Quijano Pantheon, with its romantic garden, the House of the Witches or the Alberola House.

The widest avenues in Alicante, such as La Rambla or Doctor Gadea will lead you to Alfonso X el Sabio (Alfonso the wise) Street with the Luceros (Creole fish) on one side and the Central Market on the other, just in front of Zador Spanish language school. This area, including Maisonnave Street, is the most commercial part of Alicante, where you will see many people shopping.

After so much walking, you will be ready to sit at one of the many outdoor cafés. You can also relax on the Alicante beaches of the oceanfront promenade or sit on the chairs in the Explanada (forecourt) de España and watch the masts of the boats in the harbour, the constant movement of the waves on the beach, the people going to and from...

See you soon in Alicante, Spain, Costa Blanca region!