Alicante News & Information

YOU'VE read about Spain's record rainfall, wind speed, wave height, coldest and hottest temperatures (if you haven't, check out the fascinating set of numbers here – and keep a note of them as conversation...

A GROWING trend towards working from home triggered almost by default in early 2020 means the pull of big, global cities is slackening off – but those which the world's employees remain attracted to are largely in...

NOT JUST every child's dream, but every adult's, too, especially Millennials and late Generation-Xers: An Alicante-province town has unveiled a giant Playmobil exhibition showing its local history through the...

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport will be renamed after the Mediterranean province's most famous poet, Miguel Hernández – an announcement made on the exact day of what would have been his 110th birthday.

SPAIN'S most international dish has been around the world and back in a recent UNESCO competition – although none of the chefs involved had to travel.

BOTANISTS at Alicante University have identified two as-yet unknown carnivorous plants growing wild in different mountain ranges in Spain.

A MASK which changes colour when the wearer has a fever has been created by a textile company in the inland Alicante-province town of Alcoi.

AS PART of their planned national tour to promote tourism and check in with their public, King Felipe VI and his wife, Queen Letizia's latest stop this week was in Benidorm (Alicante province).

KING Felipe's niece Victoria Federica has been spotted on summer holidays in Jávea with new boyfriend, Jorge Bárcenas – a DJ who is no blood relation to disgraced former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, currently in...

GUARDIA Civil officers in a northern Alicante-province coastal town bought groceries out of their own pockets for a family with practically no income and who were in dire straits because of the national quarantine.

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport has been named the best in Europe in its category – terminals with between five and 15 million annual passengers – according to the Airport Council International (ACI).

ONE OF THE world's most exclusive hotels is in Spain – and one of only five of its type in the country.