4K | Alicante to Benidorm | Valencian Region | Spain | 2021 | #19

Driving from Alicante along the AP-7 / A-70 highway to Benidorm. Alicante is located in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Some orographic features rising over the largely flat terrain where the city is built on include the Cabo de la Huerta, the Serra Grossa, the Tossal and the Benacantil hills. Located in an arid territory, Alicante lacks any meaningful permanent water stream. There are however several stream beds correspondent to intermittent ramblas. There was a swamp area in the northeast of the municipality, L’Albufereta, yet it was dried up in 1928. Benidorm has been a tourist destination within Spain since 1925, when its port was extended and the first hotels were built, though it would not be until the 1950s that it became renowned as a summer destination for people coming from inland Spain, especially Madrid. Today it is known for its hotel industry, beaches, and skyscrapers and receives as many tourists from abroad as from Spain. Accord