by Lorena García Prieto | Mar 30, 2018 | Culture and Leisure, Featured, Historical archive, Routes for cruise passengers, Tours and walking tours
29. Central Market of Alicante The visit will begin at the back of the market square, today called “May 25” square to commemorate Spain’s worse bombing of civilians. It took place in 1938, at 11:15 in the morning, when the market was full of shoppers...
by Lorena García Prieto | Mar 29, 2018 | Alicante Municipal Tourist Board, Alicante with kids, Culture and Leisure, Featured, Historical archive, Routes for cruise passengers
Route starting point- Puerta del Mar Alicante was a walled city up to the 19th Century. In 1858, Queen Isabella II came to Alicante to inaugurate the Madrid-Alicante train line. Seizing this opportunity, given that the city’s growth was limited buy its walls,...
by Lorena García Prieto | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Historical archive, Routes for cruise passengers
Route Starting Point. Puerta del Mar Alicante has always been a walled city because of the threat of attacks from the sea. The muslims, as well as the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Valencia (that Alicante belonged to in the early 14th Century), walled the...
