Travel/Tourism news & information for Costa Blanca

EXPATS and permanent foreign residents in Spain, as well as holiday home owners from abroad, often appear to be clustered around very specific areas – typically on the coast.

PROPERTY prices, housing quality, healthcare and education, living costs and the job market are among the factors that determine where the happiest locations in Spain are, according to research by a leading national...

SEEING the world through the proverbial rose-tinted spectacles is fairly typical when you're on holiday, and for newly-settled expats once they get the practical hurdles of a move abroad out of the way. Of course,...

IMAGINE you're at a pub quiz and the question came up, “Which is the largest building in Spain?”

GLADIATORS are about to land in Alicante city in time for Easter – a huge interactive exhibition on these Ancient Roman warriors will open at the MARQ archaeological museum on Wednesday.

BRITISH tourists in Benidorm have outnumbered Spanish visitors for the first time since before the pandemic – and it's still only early spring.

BRIGHT skies and warm weather may not have been our only reason for moving to Spain, or even have figured among our top 50 priority reasons, but they certainly help.

EACH region in Spain has its own day of the year where it celebrates itself, rather like a birthday but without the age increase involved. Sometimes, a 'regional day' just involves a public holiday, a day off...

WINGED superhero Batman is 82 years old in 2021, but has not yet retired from his full-time job of saving the world – or from travelling it without having to bother with a passport or check-in queues.

AFTER the second-hottest July this century and August lurching from extreme temperatures on one day – around 40ºC in the southern two-thirds of the country – to refreshing thunder storms the next, and September...

LOW-COST carrier Ryanair has scheduled over 70 routes to and from Alicante-Elche airport this summer and is promoting special offers and cut-price seats to get people travelling again.

NOW that the 'State of Alarm' is over, residents being summoned for vaccines are getting younger and lower-risk, masks no longer have to be worn outside and contagion rates are dropping dramatically, Spain as a...