Archive for: May 19, 2012

Even though the construction industry is going through a bad time ,in Benidorm the price of property is high.Figures released by IESE Business School on behalf of Fotocasa have shown that the average cost of a property in Benidorm is …

The tourism councillor for Calpe has started a very new initiative to attract tourists to the town.Calpe is to offer two nights at an hotel in the town for free.Naturally the idea is proving to be very popular and already …

The Alicante Provincial government has just completed its first inventory of unique examples of trees.There are over 60 species of tree to be found in the province.These include types of olive,pine,walnut,aruacara,cypress,chestnut and oak.

The catalogue is made up of 9 volumes …

Benidorm is planning a Low Cost Festival for July 23 and 24 .The move towards this Fest gathered some momentum last week when Dayna Kurtz the “queen of underground” in the States ,also well known on the international stage,gave a …

In September 2009 Crimestoppers launched a campaign to catch criminals from the UK who are thought to be hiding out on the Costas.The initiative was launched in malaga .They have now captured half of those on the “Most Wanted” list.Last …

The Department of European Residents of the Provincial government has organised another edition of Spnish courses for non-Spanish speakers.

Alicante province has the largest number of expats in the whole of Spain.There are almost 300,000 registered  which represents 15% of the …

Javea and virtually all other towns in Spain are feeling the pinch when it comes to their coffers being very empty.A Javea councillor has admitted that when it comes to fining residents for their parking offences and speeding much more …

A credit card cloning gang from valencia has been broken.The gang had defrauded 400,000 euros from innocent people.The gang had had a highly technical laboratory at its disposal in the city.They cloned stolen credit cards at this “laboratory”.

National police discovered …