Visit some of the many treasures of Alicante on this half-day guided tour that takes you into the city center and up into the mountains.
Start this Alicante 4h private shore excursions guided tours during morning with your private tour guide Alicante in a panoramic drive around the city center: the old Town Hall, Monuments, Spanish Explanade, Bull-Ring and finally we will visit the castle. On Benacantil Mountain you’ll find Santa Barbara Castle, a spectacular structure sitting 166 meters above sea level, offering sweeping views of the Alicante bay.
Take a walk through the old city center and experience a typical Mediterranean setting. You’ll see the St. Nicholas Co-Cathedral, built in the Herrerian Renacentist style over the remains of a mosque. Surrounding the San Nicolás Co-cathedral you will find one of the most niciest squares with several XXth century houses, with different materials and showing all the economical splendour of this centuries.
We will continue this tour visiting the Town Hall.
The Baroque Town Hall dates from the 18th century, and the Modernist palace known as the Carbonell House dates from 1924. Take a walk along the esplanade, a pedestrian street by the sea that was made from over 6.5 million ceramic pieces.
In all of our Alicante private shore excursions, after this short walking tour around the city center, you’ll head off on a drive to San Juan Beach, where you’ll visit the Santa Faz Monastery. Inside the monastery you’ll see a relic brought from the Vatican in the 15th century. According to popular tradition, this was the cloth with which Veronica wiped the face of Jesus on the road to Calvary.
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