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Alicante Bars and Parks
I think now is
best time to take a break from our traditional Alicante sightseeing tour and leave path of historic buildings and museums. There are so many different churches, museums and places particularly around old city centre, which you can spend many days discovering them. However, as you might visit city during rather hot summer months allow me to have a little step back and go up to Plaza de C. Sotelo.
The lovely garden is ideal rest place and best starting point for a little shopping tour in Alicante. Right at opposite you will find El Corte Ingles, famous Spanish department store chain with an impressive outlet. Not that you might just go there for shopping, but as it is air-conditioned it might just be right thing to “cool things down” a little. So after a nice “shopping-rest” just coming out of El Corte Ingles, we walk Avenida Doctor Gadea down to harbour area.
Next to statue of D. Eleuterio Maisonnave former minister of state and famous sun of city of Alicante, Avenida guides you down to harbour with beautiful flowers along way. It is this kind of alleys you find all around Alicante and make city such a wonderful place for a walk around. The city is full with peaceful places and gardens its all up to you if you prefer going for quiet site of Alicante. Down Avenida Doctor Gandea we reach harbour area again.
Before turning left to where we came from, you should visit Panoramis shopping mall directly at harbour. Just when you go there you will pass Real Club de Regatas – royal regatta club. If you are lucky you mind even see members of Spanish royal family, who sometimes spend some time here. Similar to an American style shopping mall, Panoramis offers you a breathtaking view over Alicante harbour area. With a huge variety of different restaurants, most of them with perfect view over city, it is a lovely point of reference for every walk around city.
Finally we turn back to area around Melia Hotel, where we started our walk through Alicante. Along harbour at Paseo Explanada de Espana our way takes us in between an alley of palm trees right back.
Further sightseeing tips on Alicante
Having completed more or less our walk through Alicante – which might take anything in between 4 to 6 hours, there are obviously many more things to see and visit around this impressive city. Among others you could go up castle of Santa Barbara (take car to get there if it’s too hot), see bullfighting ring or visit Park Ruiz de Alda north of Alicante just to name a view. However you might reconsider your plans when you are actually visiting Costa Blanca area, because above everything stands usually beach, sand and sea.
Robert Carlton lives with his valencian wife and daughter in the Alicante suburb of San Joan. Running a marketing company he started setting up a website for some of his international customers visiting him. You can reach him via his website http://www.alicante-spain.com
