Altea
Altea is a charming seaside town of 22,000 people on the Costa Blanca of Alicante province. Visitors are drawn by its good weather, its beaches and its charming old town.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Train station Altea and Torre de Bellaguarda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include L’Alfàs del Pi and L’Albir.
L’Alfàs del Pi
Village
Photo: Jackrm, Public domain.L’Albir
Suburb
Photo: Jackrm, Public domain.
Altea
- Categories: municipality of Spain, municipality of the Valencian Community, and locality
- Location: Costa Blanca, Alicante, Valencian Community, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.6028° or 38° 36′ 10″ north
Longitude
-0.0472° or 0° 2′ 50″ west
Population
15,700
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
Open location code
8CCXJX33+44
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Altea” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Altea”
- Arabic: “ألتيا”
- Aragonese: “Alteya”
- Armenian: “Ալտեա”
- Azerbaijani: “Altea”
- Basque: “Altea”
- Bulgarian: “Алтеа”
- Catalan: “Altea”
- Cebuano: “Altea”
- Chechen: “Альтеа”
- Chinese: “阿尔特亚”
- Chinese: “阿爾特亞”
- Dutch: “Altea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “التيا”
- Esperanto: “Altea”
- Finnish: “Altea”
- French: “Altea”
- French: “Altée”
- Galician: “Altea”
- Georgian: “ალტეა”
- German: “Altea”
- Greek: “Αλτέα”
- Hungarian: “Altea”
- Interlingua: “Altea”
- Irish: “Altea”
- Italian: “Altea”
- Japanese: “アルテア”
- Kazakh: “Альтеа”
- Korean: “알테아”
- Ladin: “Altea”
- Latin: “Althaea (Hispania)”
- Latin: “Althaea”
- Lithuanian: “Altea”
- Lombard: “Altea (Spagna)”
- Lombard: “Altea”
- Luxembourgish: “Altea”
- Malagasy: “Altea”
- Malay: “Altea”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Altea”
- Moksha: “Алтэа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Altea”
- Norwegian: “Altea”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Altea”
- Persian: “آلتئا”
- Polish: “Altea”
- Portuguese: “Altea”
- Romanian: “Altea”
- Russian: “Альтеа”
- Scots: “Altea”
- Serbian: “Алтеа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Altea”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلتئا”
- Spanish: “Altea”
- Swedish: “Altea”
- Tatar: “Альтеа”
- Thai: “อัลเตอา”
- Turkish: “Altea”
- Ukrainian: “Алтеа”
- Urdu: “التیا”
- Uzbek: “Altea”
- Venetian: “Altea (Spagna)”
- Venetian: “Altea”
- Waray (Philippines): “Altea”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pontet and l’Horta.
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