Alicante
Alicante / Alacant province is the southernmost province of the Valencian Community. The fourth-largest province in Spain, the beautiful weather and glistening beaches of the Costa Blanca attracts tourists from across Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Alicante and Elche.
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.
Elche
Elche is in the Valencia region, southeastern Spain. Elche is the Spanish name of the city, and it is also known by its Valencian name Elx.
Benidorm
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Benidorm is a seaside resort on the Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante. It has a large Spanish population and a large retired British population.
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Costa Blanca
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The Costa Blanca is a 200 km-long coastline of Alicante. It is very popular with British, German, and Scandinavian tourists.
Orihuela
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Orihuela is a municipality of over 100,000 people in the Alicante province of the Valencian Community. It is a historic city with many monuments, especially churches.
Alcoy
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Alcoy is an industrial city in Alicante province of the Valencian Community of 59,000 people. It is best known for its large Moros i Cristians festival.
Agost
Agost is a town of 4,700 people in the province of Alicante, about 18 km from the provincial capital Alicante. For centuries the town has been known for its ceramics.
Biar
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The small town of Biar, with its monumental Arabic castle, is one of the better-preserved medieval towns in Alicante and in the Valencian Community.
Cocentaina
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Cocentaina is a town of 11,500 people in Alicante. It is known primarily for its textile industry, and tourists flock to experience its two festivals, both of them originating in the Middle Ages and declared 'Festivals of National Tourist Interest'.
Tabarca
Tabarca is an island off the coast of Alicante in Valencia. The waters of the island form part of a protected marine reserve.
Alicante
- Type: province of Spain with 1,840,000 residents
- Description: province in Spain
- Also known as: “Alicante Province”, “Province of Alacant”, “Province of Alicante”, “província d’Alacant”, and “provincia de Alicante”
- Neighbors: Valencia
- Category: electoral unit
- Location: Valencian Community, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Alicante” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca Alicante”
- Arabic: “أليكانتي”
- Arabic: “اليكانتي (مقاطعة)”
- Arabic: “لقنت”
- Arabic: “لَقنت”
- Aragonese: “Alicant”
- Aragonese: “Provincia d’Alicant”
- Armenian: “Ալիկանտե”
- Asturian: “Alacant”
- Asturian: “Alicante”
- Asturian: “provincia d’Alacant”
- Asturian: “Provincia d’Alacant”
- Asturian: “provincia d’Alicante”
- Azerbaijani: “Alikante vilayəti”
- Basque: “Alacant”
- Basque: “Alacanteko probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Алікантэ, правінцыя”
- Belarusian: “Алікантэ”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Алікантэ”
- Bengali: “আলিকান্তে প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Proviñs Alacant”
- Bulgarian: “Аликанте”
- Catalan: “Alacant”
- Catalan: “província d’Alacant”
- Catalan: “Província d’Alacant”
- Cebuano: “Provincia de Alicante”
- Chinese: “Alicante Séng”
- Chinese: “阿利坎特”
- Chinese: “阿利坎特省”
- Croatian: “Alicante”
- Czech: “Alicante”
- Czech: “Provincie Alicante”
- Danish: “Alicante”
- Dimli (individual language): “Alicante (wılayet)”
- Dimli (individual language): “Alicante”
- Dutch: “Alicante”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Alikanto”
- Estonian: “Alicante provints”
- Finnish: “Alicante”
- French: “Alicant”
- French: “Province d’Alacant”
- French: “province d’Alicante”
- French: “Province d’Alicante”
- French: “província d’Alacant”
- Galician: “Alacante”
- Galician: “Provincia de Alacant”
- Georgian: “ალიკანტეს პროვინცია”
- German: “Alicante”
- German: “Provinz Alicante”
- Greek: “Αλικάντε”
- Greek: “επαρχία του Αλακάντ”
- Greek: “επαρχία του Αλακάντε”
- Gujarati: “એલિકેન્ટ પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Â-li-kham-thi̍t-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Alicante-sén”
- Hindi: “एलिकैंट प्रांत”
- Hindi: “एलिसाण्ट प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Alicante tartomány”
- Hungarian: “Alicante”
- Icelandic: “Alícantehérað”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Alicante”
- Interlingua: “Provincia de Alicante”
- Interlingue: “Provincia de Alicante”
- Italian: “Alicante”
- Italian: “Provincia di Alicante”
- Japanese: “アリカンテ”
- Japanese: “アリカンテ県”
- Japanese: “プロバンシア・デ・アリカンテ”
- Kannada: “ಅಲಿಸಿಯಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Аликанте”
- Korean: “알리칸테도”
- Korean: “알리칸테주”
- Ladin: “Provinzia de Alicante”
- Ladino: “Alikante”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Alikante”
- Latin: “Lucentum”
- Latin: “Provincia Lucentina”
- Latvian: “Alakantas province”
- Latvian: “Alikantes province”
- Lithuanian: “Alikantės provincija”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Alicante”
- Macedonian: “Аликанте”
- Malay: “Wilayah Alicante”
- Marathi: “अॅलिकेंटे प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “آلیکانته اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alicante Séng”
- Mingrelian: “ალიკანტეშ პროვინცია”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Alicante”
- Northern Luri: “آلیکانتئ”
- Northern Sami: “Alicante eanangoddi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alacant”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alicante”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Alicante”
- Norwegian: “Alicante”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alacant”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província d’Alacant”
- Ossetian: “Аликанте”
- Ossetian: “Аликантейы провинци”
- Pampanga: “Alicante”
- Persian: “استان آلیکانته”
- Polish: “Alicante”
- Portuguese: “Alicante”
- Romanian: “Provincia Alicante”
- Russian: “Аликанте”
- Scots: “Province o Alicante”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alacant”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Аликанте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alicante”
- Sinhala: “අලිකන්ටේ පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Alicante”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلیکانته اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Alicante”
- Spanish: “provincia de Alicante”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Alicante”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Alicante”
- Swedish: “Alicante”
- Tamil: “அலிகாண்ட் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “అలికాంట్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “అలికాంట్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอาลิกันเต”
- Turkish: “Alicante ili”
- Turkish: “Alicante”
- Ukrainian: “Аліканте”
- Urdu: “صوبہ الیکانتے”
- Urdu: “صوبہ لقنت”
- Uzbek: “Alicante”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Alicante”
- Vietnamese: “Alicante”
- Waray (Philippines): “Probinsya han Alicante”
- Welsh: “Talaith Alicante”
- Wu Chinese: “阿利坎特省”
- Yue Chinese: “阿利坎特省”
- “província d’Alacant”
- “provincia de Alicante”
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