Eat at some of Alicante’s best restaurants and take daytrips out onto the Mediterranean Sea at the popular maritime centre of this coastal city.

This marble walkway lining Alicante’s coast is where local residents pursue one of their favorite pastimes: the evening walk.

Tour the ornate rooms lined with paintings by Alicante masters and peek into the chapel at this old municipal centre, where the city council still holds meetings.

Baroque on the outside, Gothic on the inside, Alicante’s oldest church reveals 500 years of history in its architecture and features, including a 17th-century organ.

Locate this cathedral by its beautiful dome. The building is considered to be one of the finest examples of Spanish Baroque architecture in the country.

Picasso, Dalí and Miró are among the famous names of the 20th century whose work grace the walls of this modern museum built in one of the city’s oldest structures.