Alicante

Alicante is a city and port in Spain on the Costa Blanca, the capital of the area of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacanti, in the south of the Valencian Community. Alicante was one of the quickest developing urban areas in Spain. The blast depended somewhat on tourism coordinated to the shorelines of the Costa Blanca and especially on the second home development blast which began in the 1960s and restored again by the late 1990s. Administrations and open organization likewise assume a noteworthy part in the city's economy.

The most important celebration, the Bonfires of Saint John, happens amid the late spring solstice. This is taken after seven days by seven evenings of firecracker and pyrotechnic challenges between organizations on the urban shoreline Playa del Postiguet. Another notable celebration is Moros I Cristians in Altozano or San Blas area. Generally speaking, the city brags multi year-round nightlife for the satisfaction in travelers, inhabitants, and a vast understudy populace of the University of Alicante. The nightlife social scene tends to move to adjacent Playa de San Juan amid the mid year months. Alicante fills in as central command and the beginning stage of the Volvo Ocean Race, a yacht race far and wide.