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All 25 photos in Costa Blanca 2023
Alicante, Benidorm and the pink lake · Apr 2023 · 25 photos
Costa Blanca is the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Spain. The album gathers four days under a sky with light clouds. In the afternoon, Benidorm, seen from the Balcón del Mediterráneo, the lookout on the rocky headland between the town's two large beaches.
Benidorm
Mal Pas and Poniente beaches, the turquoise water, the harbor breakwater and the row of towers stretching to the mountains.
Mal Pas beach, Benidorm, Spain 
Poniente beach, Benidorm, Spain 
Balcón del Mediterráneo, Benidorm, Spain 
Benidorm, Spain
In the evening, a few kilometers to the north, Altea, its old center climbing a hill above the bay.
Altea
White houses and tiled roofs stepping down to the sea and, in the warm light of sunset, a mountain dropping sharply into the water.
Altea, Spain 
Altea, Spain 
Altea, Spain
To the south, the road leads to Cartagena, in the region of Murcia. The city was founded by the Carthaginians and later became the Roman Carthago Nova. The Roman theater was uncovered only in 1988 beneath the houses of the old quarter, and the bullring was built over the Roman amphitheater. The city is seen from above, from the hill of the Castillo de la Concepción.
Cartagena
The tiers of the theater next to the ruins of the old cathedral, the modernist city hall, the Castillo de los Moros on its hill and the round bullring, above the rooftops.
Cartagena, Spain 
Cartagena City Hall, Cartagena, Spain 
Roman Theater of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain 
Cartagena, Spain 
Castillo de los Moros, Cartagena, Spain 
Roman Theater of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain 
Roman Amphitheater of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain
In the afternoon, the pink lake of Torrevieja, a lagoon worked for salt and tinted by microorganisms that live in the very salty water. Farther north, the road reaches a beach south of Alicante.
The pink lake
The water shifting from pink to brick red, with white crusts of salt at the shore.
The pink lake, Torrevieja, Spain 
The pink lake, Torrevieja, Spain
Beach south of Alicante
Wide sand, waves and people out walking in the evening light, and in the distance the city and Mount Benacantil.
Alicante and Mount Benacantil, Costa Blanca, Spain 
Beach south of Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain 
Beach south of Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain
In Alicante, in the afternoon, the road climbs to Santa Bárbara Castle, on Mount Benacantil, 166 m above the sea. Near the city, at midday, a golf course.
Alicante
The marina at night, below the castle lit on its rock, then, from its walls, Postiguet beach, the neighborhoods climbing toward the mountains and the coast running on to the north.
Port of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 
Santa Bárbara Castle, Alicante, Spain 
Santa Bárbara Castle, Alicante, Spain 
Santa Bárbara Castle, Alicante, Spain 
Santa Bárbara Castle, Alicante, Spain
Golf course
Green turf, palms and a pond among arid hills, under a cloudless sky.
Golf course, Alicante, Spain