Costa Blanca Holidays in Brief

A well known area of Spain is the ideal place for your COSTA BLANCA HOLIDAYS. The Costa Blanca is well known for the many sandy beaches all along the coast, dotted with small fishing villages and the occasional larger towns. Alicante sits almost in the centre with the international airport, recently rebuilt with new terminals that should be open ready for the summer and the hordes of expected tourists. The Costa Blanca is also well known for development that has been going on along the coast for many years, most of which started during the booming period of the 90s before a sudden financial flop in the market. Prices had been steadily climbing and at about the same time new construction seemed to be keeping track. The sudden drop in the world’s economic climate affected the price of buildings that had completed and stopped the sale of properties yet to be finished.

The consequence of this is that many urbanizations up and down the Costa Blanca have been left unfinished and are now popular resorts for the kids, bored after school with nothing to do. Building sites litter areas that were once open areas where anyone fancying a walk to the beach could go along. Now the cordoned off areas can even cover hundreds of apartments or houses are being left to rot. And the new routes to the beach mean an extra 20 minute walk or call to travel by car.

Although there are a lot of places like this it shouldn't deter holiday makers, there is still plenty of things to go and do. There are after all over one hundred kilometres of sandy beaches on the Costa Blanca. To the north of Alicante there are less beaches and more hidden coves with mountainous terrain and cliffs; to the south of Alicante is where the larger beaches are, mostly flat with palm trees while inland the region is dusty and dry.

With hardly any rainfall and on average 320 days of sunshine a year, according to the World Health Organisation, it has one of the best climates on the planet mainly caused by the salt in the salt lakes near Torrevieja. A host of other minerals that have mixed in help relieve arthritis sufferers who often noticing the difference within a few days of arriving. An average temperature all year round of 24 degrees Celsius helps a lot too: it’s not too cold in winter and just below sweltering in the height of summer.

There are some exceptional places to visit in the Costa Blanca. Valencia in the far North has the largest science theme park and aquarium in Europe. The theme parks of Benidorm as you head south - Terra Mitica, Terra Natura and Munodomar - and Benidorm also has a large aquarium and the best spot for the night life. Alicante has the better archaeological sites and museums from the Santa Barbara fortress and the late Roman city Lucentum along with a few churches all worth seeing. Santa Pola, south of Alicante, is another archaeologically filled town and Guardamar is a quaint town with an ancient past, a Muslim wall, a dam, a medieval bridge and cave houses in the hills. Finally there is Torrevieja with its salt lakes and very cosmopolitan lifestyle. Yes with all the development there is still so much that one can do on when on a COSTA BLANCA HOLIDAYS in Spain.