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Alicante (in Valencian and co-officially Alacant) is a city and a municipality in Spain, capital of the homonymous province, in the Valencian Community. Port city, is located on the Mediterranean coast. With 331 577 inhabitants (INE, 2018), it is the second most populous municipality in the autonomous community and the eleventh in the country. It forms a conurbation of 468,782 inhabitants with many of the towns in the Campo de Alicante region: San Vicente del Raspeig, San Juan de Alicante, Muchamiel and Campello. Statistically it is also associated with the metropolitan area of ​​Alicante-Elche, which has 757 085 inhabitants. Eminently tourist and service city, it is one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain.
The city of Alicante holds this title since 1490 granted by King Ferdinand II of Aragon, in addition to the titles of "Very Illustrious Faithful and Always Heroic City of Alicante." The first two were granted by Felipe V; [citation needed] rather later would come from Heroica, granted by Alfonso XII according to royal decree appeared in the Official Gazette of the Province on Friday, June 10, 1881. Previously Alfonso X de Castilla had already distinguished it with those of Leal and Esforzada. Later it was Carlos I who, along with the Golden Fleece for the edge of his weapons, granted in 1524, also confirmed to his municipality the treatment of excellence.

The Campo de Alicante (in Valencian Alacantí) is a region in the south of the Valencian Community (Spain), located on the coast of the province of Alicante. It also receives the name of Comarca de Alicante and one of its areas, Huerta de Alicante. [Citation needed] Most of the region is part of the metropolitan area of Alicante, integrated in turn in the wider metropolitan area of Alicante-Elche .

The castle of Santa Bárbara (in Valencia, Castell de Santa Bàrbara) is a castle located in the center of the Spanish city of Alicante, on Mount Benacantil, a rocky mass of 167 m of altitude bordering the sea, which conferred an enormous strategic value since from it the entire bay of Alicante and its terrestrial surroundings can be seen. The image of the mountain from the beach resembles a face, so it is called "the face of the Moor" and is an icon of the city of Alicante.
There are historians who date the origin of the place name in the words Bena, transcription into Arabic of Pinna, 'Peña' in Latin, and of Laqanti, an adjective that comes from Laqant, Alicante for the Arabs.

The Plaza de la Montañeta (in Valencian: Plaça de la Muntanyeta) is a central square in the city of Alicante (Spain). It was built during the first years of the Francisco Franco dictatorship and until 1978 it was called "Plaza del Caudillo". Traditionally, the Bethlehem of the City Hall is installed on Christmas dates.

Casco Antiguo-Santa Cruz (better known as the Santa Cruz neighborhood or Casco Antiguo) is a neighborhood in the Spanish city of Alicante. It limits to the north with the district of San Antón; to the northeast, and separated by the Callejón de la Sierra, with the Raval Roig neighborhood; to the east and south with the neighborhood of Ensanche-Diputación, at the height of the breakwater of the Port of Alicante; and to the west, separated by the Rambla de Méndez Núñez, with the Centro neighborhood. In this neighborhood is the Alicante City Hall. According to the 2006 census, it has 2,919 inhabitants (1,473 men and 1,446 women).

Centro is a neighborhood of the Spanish city of Alicante. It limits to the north, separated by the avenue of Alfonso the Wise, with the neighborhood of the Market and, at its most eastern end, with that of San Antón; to the east, separated by the Rambla de Méndez Núñez, with the Santa Cruz neighborhood; and, delimited to the south by the Explanada promenade, and to the west by Canalejas street and Federico Soto avenue, with the Ensanche Diputación neighborhood. According to the 2006 census, it has 5865 inhabitants (2607 men and 3258 women).

The Alicante City Council is the institution that is responsible for governing the city and the municipality of Alicante, Spain. It is chaired by the mayor of Alicante, who since 1979 has been democratically elected by universal suffrage. The current mayor is Luis Barcala (PP).

San Antón is a neighborhood in the city of Alicante (Spain). It limits to the north with the neighborhood of Carolinas Bajas; to the east with the Raval Roig-Virgen del Socorro neighborhood; to the south with the district of Casco Antiguo-Santa Cruz; to the southwest with the neighborhood of the Center; to the west with the market district; and to the northwest with the neighborhood of Campoamor. According to the 2006 census, it has 2,195 inhabitants (1,034 men and 1,161 women).
It began to form in the seventeenth century, outside the city, on the hillside of Mount Benacantil, and saw its growth motivated by the construction of the New Hospital and the Casa de la Misericordia in the eighteenth century, converted a century later into the Tobacco Factory, which employed 4,000 women. With the urbanizations executed in the 19th century, you are demolished in the War of Independence and with the creation of spaces such as the Quijano Park and the Campoamor gardens, it was completely integrated into the city.
Among the places of interest, stand out the Mount Benacantil, a natural space on which the castle of Santa Barbara, the bullring of Alicante or the Misericordia church sits.

Mercado is a neighborhood in the Spanish city of Alicante. It limits to the north, separated by the round of the castle of San Fernando and the streets Padre Mariana and Mayor Alfonso de Rojas, with the neighborhood of Campoamor; to the east, separated by the street of San Vicente, with the district of San Antón; to the south, separated by the avenue of Alfonso the Wise, with the neighborhood of the Center; to the southwest, separated by the avenue of General Marvá, with the district of Ensanche Diputación; and to the northwest, separated by the street of Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, with the neighborhood of San Blas-Santo Domingo. It receives its name because it is the Central Market of Alicante.

The Museum of Fine Arts Gravina (MUBAG) (in Valencian: Museu de Belles Arts Gravina) is located in the city of Alicante, (Spain), and inside the palace of the Count of Lumiares, a four-storey building built between 1748 and 1808 and Declared Historic Artistic Monument of local character.
This museum is dedicated to Alicante painting and sculpture, from the 16th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Currently, his work focuses on the exhibition of the collection belonging to the most outstanding artists of Alicante of the nineteenth century and the figure of the local painter Emilio Varela Isabel.

The co-cathedral of San Nicolás de Bari (in Valencian, Coca-Cathedral of Sant Nicolau de Bari) is a church in the Spanish city of Alicante. It is one of the two cathedral headquarters of the diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, together with the Cathedral of El Salvador de Orihuela. It is located in the Abad Penalva square.

Alicante-Terminal (in Valencian and co-officially Alacant-Terminal) or historically Alicante-Termino is the main railway station of the Spanish city of Alicante. It is a terminal station built by MZA in 1858 although the reforms it has undergone throughout its history make its appearance, especially its main façade, quite different from that originally conceived.
It has extensive Long and Medium Distance services as well as being the head of lines C-1 and C-3 of the Murcia / Alicante Cercanías network. In 2010, its traffic (excluding commuter trains) exceeded 1.6 million passengers per year.

The Torrent building located in the Plaza del Doctor Balmis number 6 of the city of Alicante (Spain) is a Valencian modernist multi-family residential building built in 1911 that is attributed to the architect Enrique Sánchez Sedeño who stood out in the architecture panorama Alicante during the last decades of the nineteenth century and especially in the early years of the twentieth century.
The situation of this house in Pl. Balmis, in the surroundings of the San Francisco neighborhood and within the old town of Alicante, responds to one of the most prolific foci of Alicante modernism, although few examples of this architecture have reached us.

Mercado is a station on lines 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Alicante Metropolitan TRAM. It is located under the confluence of Alfonso el Sabio Avenue, Jaime II Avenue, Rambla de Méndez Núñez and San Vicente Street, between the Mercado and Centro neighborhoods. Although it acquires its name through the Central Market of Alicante, it is not exactly below it.

The Plaza de los Luceros (in Valencian, Plaça dels Estels) is the most emblematic of the Spanish city of Alicante. It has in the center a monumental fountain built in 1930 by the Alicante sculptor Daniel Bañuls Martínez, which popularized the name of Plaça dels Cavalls (Plaza de los Caballos) from that moment, although officially and until 1934 it was called the Plaza de la Independencia. From that date it was renamed Plaza de Cataluña, a name that it maintained until 1941, when it was renamed with its current nomenclature, Plaza de los Luceros, by a stanza of the hymn "Face to the Sun". [4 ]

In the early 1950s this square was a very busy and gathering place of the city, especially on summer evenings, when the fountain offered a free show of water games.
It is the center of various social events in the city of Alicante, such as the Three Kings Cavalcade, parades of the Bonfires of Alicante and place where the mascletás are held; also, this is where the fans of the Hercules Club de Fútbol , after a promotion of category, flock to bathe and enjoy the victories of his team.