Alicante is one of the three provinces that comprise of the Valencian Community. One of the most outstanding characteristics of this city is its intense harbor activity. Its strategic location on the Mediterranean Sea has made that historically this region has shown an outstanding importance, like point of connection yet the Mediterranean coast, attracting from time immemorial multitude of retailers, fishermen and passengers. Alicante is a fascinating city to take advantage of some the supplies of existing cheap escapes, and thus to get ready to know a city with history but with a mighty present. Thanks to the important communication channels that tie the port of Alicante with the most important cities of the region, the same has become a node of storage and merchandise distribution and overhead for all the region. In the last years it has been remodelado and extended the harbor area to be around the transported volume by sea that enters and leaves Spain constantly to traverse of the region. Alicante is one of the most traditional cities, which is demonstrated by the great amount of popular celebrations that congregate to multitudes year after year.

A imperdible celebration is the Bonfires of San Juan, declared of tourist interest by the municipality in 1984. During these celebrations the summer solstice is celebrated, tradition that goes back to the antiquity of the humanity, that gave the welcome to the propitious time for seedtime. Officially, it is celebrated the 20 of June. The celebration culminates with a burning fire of a gigantic fireworks palm realised from the castle of Santa Barbara, for delight of all the inhabitants of the city. During the celebrations a species of queen, selected among the finalists of each district is chosen to the Bellea of the Foc, that is to say.

Also traditional subjects of gossip like the cake of tuna or brevas eat. The Porrate of San Antn is another traditional celebration that carries out between the 13 and the 20 of January, to honor San Antn. This celebration has more than 500 years of antiquity and it realises in the district San Antn. Also it is worth the trouble to be been present at the carnival, which is carried out in the Boulevard. Really, there are many excuses to choose some of the weekend escapes that always can be to this colorful one and cheer place and to enjoy the alive history of a town.