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Alicante () or Alacant () is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community.
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Alicante and Alacant
* Sant Joan d ' Alacant ( called San Juan de Alicante in Spanish )
Sant Joan d ' Alacant (, ) is a municipality belonging to Alicante metropolitan area, in the southeast of Valencian Community, Spain.
The Bonfires of Saint John (, Catalan: Fogueres de Sant Joan, Galician: Noite de San Xoán ) is a popular festival celebrated around Saint John's day's eve ( 23 June ) throughout many cities and towns in Spain ; the largest one takes place in Alicante ( Alacant ), where it is considered the most important festival in the city.
Alicante: Universitat d ' Alacant, 2006.
The new town of Gran Alacant, north of Santa Pola along the Alicante bay, accounts for about one third of the population of the district.
Gran Alacant lies only a few kilometres from Alicante Airport and a few hundred metres from the town of Los Arenales which is located in the Elche district.
In June 2009, the Valencian Government announced that the Alicante Tram system will be extended southwards via Alicante Airport and El Altet, to stations in Gran Alacant and Santa Pola and then onwards to Guardamar and Torrevieja before terminating in Murcia.
Image: Alicante_Spain_CastilloSantaBarbara. jpg | Alicante / Alacant harbour
Image: Alicante. jpg | Monjas-Santa Faz, Alicante / Alacant
Alicante and is
Alicante is one of the fastest-growing cities in Spain.
The campus of the University of Alicante is located in San Vicente del Raspeig, bordering the city of Alicante to the north.
The real percentage of foreign residents is higher, since the Alicante metropolitan area is home to many Northern European retirees who are officially still residents of their own countries.
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* 1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
The origin of the pagan festival is similar to that of the Bonfires of Saint John celebrated in the Alicante region, in the sense that both came from the Latin habit of lighting fires to welcome spring.
There is also an airport at the neighboring city of Alicante from Murcia.
One of the more famous of these traditions is the annual " Els Enfarinats " festival of Ibi in Alicante, where the inocentadas dress up in full military dress and incite a flour fight.
The lowest numbers are in the major cities of Valencia and Alicante, where the percentage of everyday speakers is in single figures.
The province is named after its capital, the city of Alicante.
From the 50 provinces of Spain, Alicante is the only one with three metropolitan areas – Alicante-Elche, Elda-Petrer and Benidorm – even though only one of them ( Alicante-Elche ) is ranked within the Spanish top ten metropolitan areas.
The reasons for this lack of precipitation is mostly the marked rain shadow effect caused by hills to the west of the Alicante Province ( and, to a lesser degree, those in the northern part of the province which, in turn, enhance the inverse Orographic lift effect around Cap de la Nau ).
Traditionally, Alicante Province is divided into nine comarcas or comarques ( in Valencian ):
* Baix Vinalopó or Bajo Vinalopó: 290, 481 inhabitants ; its capital is Elche ; agriculture, footwear and carpet industry, tourism ; Misteri d ' Elx festival and services with Alicante Airport in municipality of Elche.
* L ' Alacantí: 476, 123 inhabitants ; its capital is Alicante ; services and tourism ; highly urbanised comarca ; Bonfires of Saint John festival.
The Iberians were the oldest documented people living in what today is the Alicante Province.
What today is the Alicante Province was initially split between the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon by means of the Treaty of Almizra, however later on the whole territory became under the control of the Kingdom of Valencia, which was a component Kingdom of the Crown of Aragon.
It is bordered by the provinces of Granada, Murcia, Alicante, Valencia, Cuenca, Ciudad Real and Jaén.
In Alicante too, the narrow gauge railway is being developed into a modern tramway.
Alicante and city
The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334, 329, estimated, ranking as the second-largest Valencian city.
Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.
The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).
* Reconquista: King Ferdinand III of Castile recaptures the city of Seville from the Moors and Prince Alfonso X of Castile the city of Alicante.
* 1265 – King Alfonso X of Castile captures the city of Alicante, Spain from the Moors during the Reconquista.
* Reconquista: King Alfonso X of Castile captures the city of Alicante, Spain from the Moors.
The line C-1 connects the city to Alicante, and the line C-2 connects Murcia to Alcantarilla, Lorca and Águilas.
* Greek colonists found the city of Akra Leuka ( modern Alicante, Spain ) on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula.
Camilo Sesto was born in Alcoi, a city located in the province of Alicante, on September 16, 1946.
Along the coast and contemporarily to the Iberians, the seafaring Phoenicians ( in Guardamar ) and Greeks ( along the coastal section to the north of the Alicante city ) settled stable trading colonies and interacted with the former ( see Lady of Elche for the most renowned archeological piece of this period ).
The company operates operates the city metro and tram system of Valencia ( Valencia Metro ) and Alicante ( Alicante Tram ).
Dénia (, ) is a city in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the Costa Blanca halfway between Alicante and Valencia, the judicial seat of the comarca of Marina Alta.
The city also serves as the northern terminus for a picturesque metre gauge railway line through the mountains from Alicante ( popularly known as the Limón Express ), run by FGV.
Torrevieja (, ) is a seaside city and municipality located on the Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante, in south-eastern Spain.
Torrevieja lies about 30 miles south of the city of Alicante and has a population of 104, 000 ( 2008 ).
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