Bike tour Wine Experience por Santa Faz

Cantera y Sierra Grossa

The Sierra Grossa of Alicante is the name by which the Alicante sierra is known in front of the Mediterranean Sea, located northwest of the center. With its 161 meters of height it has been used by man since prehistoric times, the remains found there are from the Bronze Age. Next to the city, it constitutes a decisive geographical landmark in the configuration and his development. In fact,the establishment of factories in its foothills, such as "La Británica" in the 19th century or the sandstone quarry allowed the construction of many monuments of Alicante. Ideal for hiking and mountain bike, it offers an extraordinary view of the city and the Costa Blanca (White Coast).

Playa El Postiguet- Castillo de Santa Barbara

Located in the heart of the city of Alicante, at the foot of the Castle of Santa Bárbara, it takes its name from a small gateway to the town through the walls. The beach is an icon for Alicante, and is named in some popular songs, the best known being "The blanket al coll".

Rio Seco - Lucentum

In antiquity, the dry river offered the configuration of a small estuary (location of an old Roman port) progressively clogged by marine and fluvial contributions. At the beginning of the 20th of century, the Albufereta neighbourhood was an old swamp area, drained in 1928 in order to develop tourism.

Torre Cacholi

Tower: It is rectangular in shape, its walls are made of ashlar reinforced with ashlars in the corners. The different owners surrounded the tower for housing, recently reformed in the 80s, Next to the tower there is a small chapel with a belfry.

Monasterio de Santa Faz

According to tradition, Veronica, a pious woman, who had pity on the suffering of Jesus when he wore the cross, offered him his veil to clean his bloody face, that face that was engraved in the three folds of that veil. The relic remained in Jerusalem until the 6th century, when the first Muslim invasions began and the Christians, for fear that it was desecrated, moved it with other relics to the island of Cyprus Later on, they were taken to Constantinople, in search of a safer place, being deposited in the Church of Saint Sophia, where the holy veil was exposed to the worship and veneration of the faithful. In 1453, Constantinople was taken by the Turks and, according to tradition, the Emperor's sons fled to Rome, carrying with them several relics, including that of the Holy Face, that they delivered to the Pope. Years after, there was a tremendous epidemic in Venice and the Pope sent them the relic of the Holy Face, and the epidemic was soon extinguished. It has been considered as a miracle. Later, a monk of Alicante, travelled to Rome and was ordained Priest of San Juan, a Cardinal separated the veil and gave him one of the sacred folds. On the way to Alicante, the miracles continued. The priest deposited it in the bottom of an ark. Sometime later, upon opening the ark, he found the relic spread out and placed on top of the clothes that covered it. This fact repeated several times on his trip to Alicante In the year of 1489, on the occasion of a severe drought, it was thought to organize a procession and carry the Santa Faz canvas. This procession was organized from the town of San Juan to another local church. After walking a quarter of a league, the priest who carried the Holy Face in his hands felt such weight in his arms that he could not hold them up and everyone present could see how a tear came from the right eye of the Holy Face. and flowed on the cheek. It was the last miracle. In this same place, in the year 1490, the monastery was built to protect the relic. In our days, one of those folds is in Rome, another in Jaén and the third, in the Monastery of Santa Faz in Alicante.

Calle San Diego

A typical and pretty pedestrian street where you can admire representation of the holly face on ceramic plaques.

Hospital Universitario Miguel Hernandez

This is where many Erasmus students come to learn medecine and pharmacy, physiotherapy and podiatry. In this campus, there are also several research centres, such as the Institute of Neurosciences and the Drug Dependency Research Institute.

Parque Pau 5

Welcome to the biggest dog-friendly park of Alicante. Measuring 5 hectares, you can discover different types of trees such as olive trees, palm trees, ficus , in its centre, an artificial lake and more surprising a tree decorated by hundreds of coloured ribbons. It is a local tradition that is attached to this tree a ribbon on which is inscribed the name of his deceased dog.

Playa San Juan

San Juan Beach is one of the best known beaches of the Alicante capital and extends from Cabo de las Huertas to El Campello. It is also the name of the residential neighborhood located along and in the vicinity of this beach that has several hotels and a golf course. In summer the population multiplies, mainly due to being the place of second residence of many people from Alicante and Madrid.

Club de la Cerveza

Our restaurant selection in Playa San Juan. Intimate, minimalist, retailer with a mix of Mediterranean haute cuisine and signature cuisines without forgetting the initial philosophy of the beers. El Club de la Cerveza offers its wide range of locals beers with flavors and originality. A reference restaurant in Alicante.

Probar

Recommended restaurant if you like creative and original tapas. All of the ingredients of the dishes are locals. Beers and wines are also from Alicante. For High budget - 50- 55 euros / persona - Plaza Luis Foglieti.

Viewpoint : Benidorm and Puig Campana. RETURN POINT

Looking at the coast, you can see Benidorm and Puig Campana when the weather is sunny. Benidorm : It is the tourist capital of the Valencian Community. Known as the "New York of the Mediterranean", Benidorm is the city with the most skyscrapers in Spain, the city with the most skyscrapers per habitant in the world. It is one of the most important and well-known tourist destinations in Spain and throughout the Mediterranean thanks to its beaches and nightlife, reaching up to 400,000 inhabitants in summer. Not in vain, Benidorm is the third city with more hotel beds in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona Puig Campana: With an altitude of 1,410 meters and separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a distance of 7.8 km in a straight line, it is the second highest peak in Spain due to its proximity to the coast after Pienzu Peak, in Asturias.

WRONG WAY DRIVING. BIKE IN THE HAND

Cala La Almadraba

The word "Almadraba" comes from Arabic and means "Place where you hit or fight" The cove was also linked to art tuna fishing The beach of Almadraba is ideal to relax, a serene beach free of waves and crowds, from which you can enjoy fantastic sunsets and the view of Alicante

Iglesia Santiago

Built in the 90s, this church has a very modern architecture. The most striking part of the building is undoubtedly the structure, consisting of four porches of metal latticework that support the roof under which the building is housed.

Playa de la Albufereta

This coastal neighbourhood is covered by the beach of Albufereta, with a length of about 500 meters. To the east, and very close to this beach, you can find the Almadraba beach. In the Albufereta neighbourhood, you can also discover in a 37 m high hill, the original Alicante or Lucentum .In the archaeological site, you can explore an old Iberian and Roman settlements. Lucentum, which means the city of light, was one of the most important commercial city of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Empire.

Calas de Alicante

In the coves of Alicante, you can find some ideal place to enjoy the sea with the greatest tranquillity. Its transparent waters and rocky bottoms are perfect for diving.

Mirador de Malpàs

Viewpoint on Alicante and the White Coast

NARROW BRIDGE

Ayuntamiento

The town hall of Alicante, a baroque building of the eighteenth century. It´s the third town hall built in the same place. It is a rectangular building with a symmetrical main facade, composed of a central body of three floors flanked by two towers of higher height at the ends Through the towers passages between the squares of the City council and of the Santísima Faz square have been realized. At the foot of the main staircase inside the building, you can find "cota cero", a reference point that is used to measure the altitude above sea level of any point in Spain.

Costa Blanca

The Costa Blanca, literally meaning "White Coast", is over 200 kilometres (120 mi) of Mediterranean coastline in the Alicante province, on the southeastern coast of Spain. It extends from the town of Dénia in the north to Pilar de la Horadada in the south. Costa Blanca has a well-developed tourism industry and is a popular destination for British and German tourists. Benidorm and Alicante cities are the major tourist centres.

Cabo de la Huerta

Limiting the bay of Alicante to the northeast, the Cabo de la Huerta receives its name from the disappeared Arab garden and was formerly called l'Alcodre, from Arabic al-kodra "the green" . Geologically, the rocky substratum of the Cabo de la Huerta is constituted by yellowish sandstones deposited some 8 million years ago on a shallow marine continental shelf. It contains urchins, bivalves and also 100,000 year old fossils The Cabo de la Huerta also has a very particular and endemic terrestrial vegetation adapted to the characteristics of the environment, such as the sea daisy , the thin-leafed crown , or the sea fennel, the Senecio auricula and, above all, the evergreen alicantina. Concerning the marine vegetation, you can find Posidonia oceanica and some seaweeds. Posidonia is a plant endemic to the Mediterranean With regard to fauna, we distinguish species of coastal or marine birds such as the great cormorant, the Audouin gull and the black-footed tern. The urban pressure of the last 30 years caused the Cape to undergo an important transformation. Thankfully, some areas partially escaped the urbanization preserving its environmental value. Currently, the Cabo de la Huerta is considered a microreserve and is part of the Sites of Community Importance (SCI) of the Valencian Community proposed in the Natura 2000 Network (European Union).

Parque de la Goleta

Club de Golf

The city of Alicante, capital of the Costa Blanca, has become, one of the most popular destinations for playing golf,.The Golf Club of Alicante is considered as one of the best maintained and designed golf courses and most sostenable of Spain...The main attraction of the course is the ruins of a Roman village located in the middle of the 14th hole.

Torre Juana

Back again to another refuge again the pirate and the Frenchs, this tower , built in the XVII century is part of the cultural heritage of Alicante. Around the tower has been built a house, a wine cellar, a garden and a neoclassic chapel.

Torre Garcia

A rich business man build this tower in 1689. It is the only refuge tower with a truncated pyramid shape, which gives it a very slender character. The tower is attached to an angle of the house so it can be seen almost in its entirety. Its traditional access is inside the house. It belongs to a set of 19 towers, which communicate with each other by different ways when the area was attacked by pirates in the 16th and 17th century. Now the property has agricultural functions.