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Guadalest is a tiny village about 25 km from the towns of Benidorm and Altea on the Costa Blanca. Guadalest

Altea is a holiday resort on the Costa Blanca with about 20,000 inhabitants. The place is especially popular with German

Calpe (30,000 inhabitants) was a small town on the Costa Blanca until a few decades ago. Since then the municipality

A narrow-gauge railway runs along the northern part of the Costa Blanca from Alicante via Benidorm to Denia. The train

The time in Spain is the same as in Germany (Central European Time or Central European Summer Time). At least

Spain is in comparison to many other holiday countries around the Mediterranean rather cheap. At least the majority of things

The Spanish tourism planners had a clever idea a few decades ago: they divided the coast of the mainland of

The post office in Spain is called Correos (from Latin currere = to run). Even in smaller communities you can

Size of Spain: The country has an area of about 505.000 sqm. This makes Spain the fourth largest country in

There are 12 national public holidays in Spain. In addition, each region may set up to two additional holidays, which