Places
Monuments, viewpoints, beaches, parks and historic streets — editor-curated across the 14 main towns of the Costa Blanca. Every entry hand-visited, every photo shot by us.
- Castle 📍 Alicante BIC (national heritage)
Castillo de Santa Bárbara, Alicante
The 166-metre hilltop fortress that defines Alicante's skyline. Free entry, 24/7 access from town, and the single best sunset view on the north Costa Blanca coast.
- Cathedral 📍 Alicante BIC (national heritage)
Concatedral de San Nicolás de Bari, Alicante
Alicante's co-cathedral — a sober 17th-century temple built on the site of a Moorish mosque, notable for its cloister, its Baroque chapel, and being the quietest dignified space in the city centre.
- Old town 📍 Alicante Local heritage
Explanada de España, Alicante
The 500-metre palm-lined seafront promenade paved with 6.6 million red, cream and black marble tiles. Where Alicante walks at sunset — a paseo nobody does at speed.
- Palm grove 📍 Elche UNESCO
Palmeral de Elche
The largest palm grove in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — 200,000 date palms planted by the Moors in the 10th century, still irrigated by their original canal system. Walk through a thousand years of horticulture in the middle of a modern city.
- Park 📍 Calpe Regional heritage
Penyal d'Ifac Natural Park, Calpe
The 332-metre limestone monolith that rises straight out of the sea next to Calpe. Spain's smallest natural park, a mandatory sunset silhouette for anyone driving the N-332, and a trail to the top that's half hike, half scramble.
- Beach 📍 Benidorm Local heritage
Playa de Levante, Benidorm
The 2-km crescent of fine sand that built modern Benidorm — wall of high-rises at your back, open Mediterranean in front, a seafront promenade busy 18 hours a day. The most photographed beach in Spain for a reason.