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5 ideas for guided tours in Alicante

• MARQ Archaeological Museum

  

  The Museo Arqueológico de Alicante is one of the most beautiful museums in the world dedicated to prehistoric and medieval art. The place is beautifully designed. Both didactic and fun, it will appeal to adults as well as children. There are 5 main rooms: prehistory, Roman culture, Middle Ages, Iberian culture and modern and contemporary history.

  The central area has been designed to explain the techniques used by archaeologists. The museum has more than 80,000 pieces, testifying to the richness of the Mediterranean civilizations that lived in the province of the Costa Blanca.

• Santa Barbara Castle

  

  To reach Santa Barbara Castle, located on Mount Benacantil, and enjoy the most stunning view of the bay and Alicante’s port, start from the city center and head towards the Parc de la Ereta. If you want to enrich your visit, consider hiring a tourist guide in Alicante to discover fascinating stories and anecdotes about this iconic site.

  Then, take the steep path of the Paseo Alto to finally arrive at the fortress entrance. This castle once belonged to the Arabs and was captured by Alfonso X of Castile in the 13th century. It consists of three sections: the main buildings including the weapons courtyard, the keep, and the lower section, which is more recent and dates back to the 18th century.

• The Esplanade of Spain

  

  Located just near the port, the Esplanade of Spain is a privileged place to walk by the sea. Be careful, you won’t be alone. The whole city and the tourists are crowding in this place.

  It is not less than 6 million colored marble slabs (red, black and white) that it was necessary to arrange to form all this path in the shape of waves. People come here at all hours of the day, and it is very pleasant to enjoy a little shade under the 4 rows of palm trees that have been placed along the promenade.

• Guadalest

  

  Considered one of the most beautiful villages in Spain, Guadalest is only an hour’s drive from Alicante. The town sits on top of a hill, surrounded by mountains. The white houses, with a great charm, dominate the valley. The place is home to the ruins of a castle that can be visited via a very instructive route that will take you from the outside to the inside. From the top, you will have a panoramic view of the Mediterranean.

  All the streets of Guadalest follow one another in the middle of houses brilliantly decorated with their flowery facades. In the Arrabal district, many handicrafts are displayed in numerous shops (glassware, embroidery, ceramics, leather).

• The island of Tabarca

  

  Only eleven nautical miles from Alicante, near the Cape of Santa Pola, the island of Tabarca is the only inhabited island in the region. In fact, it is an archipelago composed of La Cantera, La Nao and La Galera.

  The area is very small, barely 1,800 meters long and 400 meters wide, but you will spend a dream day there. There is an old fishing port, which has kept all its charm, the small village with colorful houses, beautiful beaches with turquoise water, and, if you venture a little, you discover at the western end of the island beautiful coves.