Lieu photo à Alicante et la Costa Blanca
Altea old town and the blue-tiled dome
A whitewashed hill village half an hour up the coast, built around a church with two blue-and-white domes.
À propos Altea old town and the blue-tiled dome
ItinéraireAltea is the Costa Blanca's postcard: white houses, blue doors, narrow stepped streets and, at the top, the church of Nuestra Señora del Consuelo with its ceramic domes in blue and white above the rooftops. From the square in front of it the view runs over the tiled roofs to the sea and, on a clear day, the Peñón de Ifach at Calpe.
The lanes below the square are the better material: whitewash bounces light into faces, the bougainvillea gives colour, and the gradients mean you can shoot up or down a street and get a whole village behind two people. Cars stay out of most of it.
Go in the morning to have the streets to yourselves, or late, when the white turns warm and the domes hold the last light. Altea is roughly forty minutes from Alicante by car and is normally combined with Calpe in one session.
Meilleur moment pour photographier
Early morning, or the last hour of light
Conseils
The old town is all steps and slopes — flat shoes, and park below rather than trying to drive up.
Autres lieux à Alicante et la Costa Blanca
Santa Bárbara castle and the Barrio de Santa Cruz
A fortress on a bare rock 160 metres above the old town, and the painted lanes that climb towards it.
Explanada de España and the marina
A seafront promenade paved as a red, cream and black wave, under four rows of palms.
Peñón de Ifach at Calpe
A limestone headland rising more than 300 metres straight out of the sea, with a beach on either side.
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