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Alicante graces the Mediterranean coast, south of Valencia, and marks the Northern edge of the Costa del Sol.

Museums / Culture
Museo Municipal Casa de la Asegurada: "Casa de la Asegurada": 20th Century Art... Museo Arqueológico Provincial: Bronze Age artifacts, Iberian and Roman ceramics, Roman sculpture...
Featured Favorite: Castillo de Santa Bárbara

A great medieval fortress, the Castillo de Santa Bárbara offers views in all directions, over the city of Alicante and into the distant mountains, or over the brilliant blue Mediterranean. Traces of Bronze Age civilization have been found on the site, and today it houses scultpural and artistic exhibitions and the Museo de las Hogueras (Bonfires).
Perched atop Benacantil Mountain, the castle can be reached on foot or by vehicle, along a winding path starting from the city streets.
Hotels
The city center offers fine hotels for all price ranges, in close quarters to shopping, dining and cultural establishments.

Restaurants
Dine along a seafront paseo, choose from champagne bars, Italian eateries, and the typical Spanish fare.
Daytrips
Valencia » Denia » Murcia
Transportation
Regional trains take travelers to many cities throughout the Comunidad Valenciana, to which the province of Alicante belongs.
CavaTravel Original Travel Narrative
Xampanyería: A Memoir of Spain

Nothing easier than getting lost in the ruins of another time.
The cobbles, the asphalt, the air were rich with sea salt. The mountains on the northwestern edge of Barcelona invited morning fogs to hang over the whole city, sinking only reluctantly back to the shoreline. These fogs lifted the sediment of history, daily, into the air, a ritual cleaning. A salty timeless savor would, daily, override the sooty-city residue of industry. For those intimate, empty hours, life itself opened up, became vulnerable, reliant upon our will. We tended to attempt to dwell among the salts.
No matter what my intended destination (many days I would have an insurmountable urge to pass by the Museo Picasso; other days, it was more important to find myself at the port’s edge, watching the world in flux), all streets, every exiting of an art gallery, every callejón or escondrijo, every late café luncheon, would lead me back to the xampanyería. We would sometimes joke that all of the Barri Gótic was a series of compartments of the spirit, all fascinating but exhausting, all begging the loud, unclean serenity of the crowded cava bar.
At four p.m., possibly, definitely within the hour, one could locate Michael or Saint Jerome or Renault, Farola or the Dutchman. Nevertheless, it was always the outside, the persistence of the old places, that would drive us there. It was always an integral part of a more organismal experience, never solely, or statically, ‘a separate peace’. [Full Text]
© 2000 Joseph Robertson
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Oxígeno y ciprés: junio en España

ENTRANDO...

Camino por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo. Recuerdo sin fallos el lugar y el sentido del lugar. Ver el mismo cactus, el encanto de las plantas que llueven sobre los muros, ver la casa, el umbral, la cara y bondad insondable de Gloria, que siempre me cuidaba tan bien, significa una colaboración improbable con el fluír temporal.
Cenamos y hablamos de literatura, de leyenda y de la verdad. Hablamos de ese espacio infinito que corre por entre los nudos y planicies de la biografía a medias.

Me encuentro entre planes, entre mundos, entre variados trayectos de un progreso incierto que se llama vida. El aire tenue y privado está repleto de fantasmas e ideales, preferencias, gustos, y todo lo demás que pueda trascender los cambios cotidianos de la vida... [Texto completo]
© 2001 Joseph Robertson
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