The city is a
first rate tourist centre thanks to the splendid Alicante
beaches, excellent climate
and well known facilities.
As one would expect of
a sea-oriented city, the sea front (with its beaches, port and
promenade) is the main characteristic of Alicante.
El
Postiguet beach
Playa del Postiguet is one
of the classic Alicante beaches, envied by many
other provinces, by its size, its fine and almost white sand,
especially for where it is placed, in the middle of the city.
It
has all the own infrastructures of a much visited beach and is a point
of meeting for the free time in the summer nights. It is a beach
adapted for handicapped persons.
Playa del Postiguet has been awarded the Blue
Flag for all its services and clean beach.
Equipment and services: this
beach has bus station, red cross, lifeguards, parking, showers, beach
umbrellas and hammocks, cleaning service, waste bins, public phones,
promenade, chiringuitos and restaurants.
You can practice here diferent beach sports
like beach Volleyball.
San Juan beach
Located
8kms to the north of Alicante, San Juan has a long, open beach of some
7kms in length and with an average width of 85m.
The
beach corresponds to the two municipalities of Alicante and El
Campello.
It is located in a residential area that
is lively in the summer months and very peaceful during the rest of the
year.
Facilities available on
the seafront include restaurants, bars, cafés and car parks, and
services include access for the handicapped, toilets, watchtowers, a
Red Cross post, tourist information and water sports on the beach.
This beach has been awarded the Blue Flag of the
European Union.
It can be reached by car, by bus (numbers 21 or 22) or by tram,
offering a nice trip from Alicante.
El
Saladar-Urbanova beach
Setting out from the South,
we come across a long and well-equipped beach.
Little
known to foreign tourists, it is therefore the quietest of them all.
This beach, near to El
Altet airport, is officially called Playa del Saladar due to
the salt pans that used to exist nearby.
However,
it is popularly known as Playa de Urbanova, the name of the residential
complex facing it. Free from parking problems, bathers can stretch out
comfortably on the sand, and enjoy magnificent panoramic views of the
city and the bay of Alicante.
This beach has been awarded the Blue Flag
of the European Union.
La Albufereta beach
Cheerful beach
with lots of vegetation in the shape of palms, other trees and cactus
plants.
Located to the north of Alicante. A few
tall buildings can be seen from the beach.
It is
cut off by two cliffs on either side from which you can fish. Off the
parking area there are steps onto the beach.
This
beach has been awarded the Blue Flag of the
European Union.
Cabo de las
Huertas beach
Located in a residential,
tranquil area lying between San Juan and Albufereta, the coves along
this part of the coast of Alicante are outstandingly beautiful,
combining as they do, rocks and sand.
Some of these beaches are nudist bathing areas,
and diving is possible in almost all of them, but particularly in the
rockier coves. Of particular note are Cala de los Judios and Cala
Cantalares.
The coves can be reached by car; alternatively, a
bus (number 22) runs all round the Cabo de las Huertas as far as San
Juan Beach.
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