Alicante
Alicante is a popular tourist city of 332,000 people in the Valencian Community of Spain. It is the capital of Alicante province and a historic Mediterranean port. The city has become a hub of tourism directed to the beaches of the Costa Blanca.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio José Rico Pérez and Alicante Railway Station.
Estadio José Rico Pérez
Stadium
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Estadio José Rico Pérez is a multi-purpose stadium in Alicante, Spain. It is currently used mostly for football matches, being home to Hércules CF. It also hosted World Cup matches when Spain organized the event in 1982.
Alicante Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: FDV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alicante Terminal is the central railway station of Alicante, Spain. Commonly referred locally as the RENFE station, the station is part of Adif system, and is a terminal station.
Santa Bàrbara Castle
Photo: Helmlechner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Bàrbara Castle is a fortification in the center of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. It stands on Mount Benacantil bordering the sea, which gave it enormous strategic value since from it you can see the entire bay of Alicante and its land surroundings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gran Via Sud and Villafranqueza.
Alicante
- Categories: municipality of Spain, big city, municipality of the Valencian Community, and locality
- Location: Costa Blanca, Alicante, Valencian Community, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.3436° or 38° 20′ 37″ northLongitude
-0.4882° or 0° 29′ 17″ westPopulation
337,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)IATA airport code
ALCUnited Nations Location Code
ES ALCOpen location code
8CCX8GV6+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 21323935OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2521978Wikidata ID
Q11959
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Alicante” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Akra Leuke”
- Arabic: “ألَلَقَنْت”
- Arabic: “أليقنت”
- Arabic: “أليكانته”
- Arabic: “أليكانتى”
- Arabic: “أليكانتي”
- Arabic: “أليكنت”
- Arabic: “اللقنت”
- Arabic: “اليقنت”
- Arabic: “اليكانتى”
- Arabic: “اليكانتي”
- Arabic: “لقنت”
- Aragonese: “Alicant”
- Armenian: “Ալիկանտե”
- Asturian: “Alacant”
- Asturian: “Alicante”
- Balinese: “Alicante”
- Basque: “Alacant”
- Belarusian: “Алікантэ”
- Bosnian: “Alicante”
- Breton: “Alacant”
- Bulgarian: “Аликанте”
- Catalan: “Alacant”
- Cebuano: “Alicante (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Alicante”
- Chamorro: “Alicante”
- Chinese: “Alicante”
- Chinese: “阿利坎特”
- Chuvash: “Аликанте (хула)”
- Chuvash: “Аликанте”
- Croatian: “Alicante”
- Czech: “Alicante”
- Dagbani: “Alicante”
- Danish: “Alicante”
- Dutch: “Alicante”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اليكانتى”
- Esperanto: “Alacant”
- Esperanto: “Alakanto”
- Esperanto: “Alicante”
- Estonian: “Alicante”
- Extremaduran: “Alacant”
- Extremaduran: “Alicante”
- Extremaduran: “Alicanti”
- Finnish: “Alicante”
- French: “Alacant”
- French: “Alicante”
- Galician: “Alacant”
- Galician: “Alacante”
- Galician: “Alicante”
- Georgian: “ალიკანტე”
- German: “Alacant”
- German: “Alicante”
- Greek: “Αλικάντε”
- Hakka Chinese: “Â-li-kham-thi̍t”
- Hakka Chinese: “Alicante”
- Hebrew: “אליקנטה”
- Hungarian: “Alicante”
- Icelandic: “Alicante”
- Icelandic: “Alícante”
- Icelandic: “Alíkante”
- Indonesian: “Alicante”
- Interlingue: “Alicante”
- Irish: “Alacant”
- Italian: “Alacant”
- Italian: “Alacante”
- Italian: “Alicante”
- Japanese: “アリカンテ”
- Kazakh: “Аликанте”
- Korean: “알리칸테”
- Ladin: “Alicante”
- Ladino: “Alikante”
- Latin: “Lucentum”
- Latvian: “Alakanta”
- Latvian: “Alikante”
- Ligurian: “Alicante”
- Lithuanian: “Alikantė”
- Lombard: “Alacant”
- Lombard: “Alicante”
- Luxembourgish: “Alicante”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Alacant”
- Macedonian: “Аликанте”
- Malagasy: “Alicante”
- Malay: “Alicante”
- Maltese: “Alicante”
- Marathi: “आलिकांते”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alicante”
- Moksha: “Аликантэ”
- Northern Frisian: “Alicante”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alicante”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alicante”
- Norwegian: “Alicante”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alacant”
- Ossetian: “Аликанте”
- Persian: “آلیکانته”
- Polish: “Alicante”
- Portuguese: “Alacante”
- Portuguese: “Alicante”
- Romanian: “Alicante”
- Russian: “Аликанте”
- Sanskrit: “आलिकान्ते”
- Scots: “Alicante”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alacant”
- Serbian: “Аликанте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alicante”
- Sicilian: “Alacanti”
- Sicilian: “Alicanti”
- Silesian: “Alicante”
- Sinhala: “අලිකන්තේ”
- Slovak: “Alicante”
- Slovenian: “Alicante”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلیکانته”
- Spanish: “Alacant”
- Spanish: “Alicante”
- Spanish: “Alacante” (historical)
- Swahili: “Alicante”
- Swedish: “Alicante”
- Tajik: “Аликанте”
- Tatar: “Аликанте”
- Thai: “อาลากันต์”
- Thai: “อาลิกันเต”
- Thai: “อาลีกันเต”
- Turkish: “Alicante”
- Ukrainian: “Аліканте”
- Urdu: “الیکانتے”
- Urdu: “لقنت”
- Uzbek: “Alicante”
- Uzbek: “Alikante”
- Venetian: “Alicante”
- Vietnamese: “Alicante”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alicante”
- Welsh: “Alacante”
- Welsh: “Alicante”
- Western Panjabi: “الیکانت”
- Wu Chinese: “阿利坎特”
- Yue Chinese: “阿利坎特”
- “Alicànt”
- “Alicante”
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