Alicante · L'Alacantí
Alicante
A Mediterranean port city gathered below the fortress on Monte Benacantil, with an eighteenth-century island settlement and marine reserve inside its unusually long municipal boundary.
Castle, port and island
A city looking out from Benacantil
Alicante's centre is easy to read from the water: the port and Explanada at sea level, the old quarters on the lower slopes and Santa Bárbara Castle stretched across the rock above them.
The municipality also reaches offshore to Nueva Tabarca. Its walled settlement and protected waters make the island a second, very different expression of Alicante's long relationship with the Mediterranean.
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The city and its island
Alicante: the port city beneath Santa Bárbara Castle
How the castle, old quarters, waterfront and working port fit together in a compact Mediterranean city.
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Nueva Tabarca: an island settlement built in 1770
The rescued Tabarkino families, Carlos III's planned citadel and Spain's first marine reserve on Alicante's inhabited island.
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