Lieu photo à Alicante et la Costa Blanca
Explanada de España and the marina
A seafront promenade paved as a red, cream and black wave, under four rows of palms.
À propos Explanada de España and the marina
ItinéraireThe Explanada is the most recognisable floor in Alicante: millions of small marble tiles laid in a wave pattern that runs the whole length of the promenade, with palms on both sides and the marina beyond. Shoot along the line of the wave and the pattern pulls the eye to the horizon; shoot across it, from a low angle, and you get graphic colour under the feet.
Morning light comes in from the sea and the palms cast long shadows across the tiles — that is the hour worth booking. By midday the same spot is flat, hot and full of terrace tables, and in the evening it turns into the city's promenade, which is good for candid frames and bad for clean ones.
Postiguet beach sits at the eastern end, under the castle rock, and the marina at the western end gives white boats and reflections for a second look without moving the car.
Meilleur moment pour photographier
Early morning, before the terraces open
Conseils
Shoot low to use the marble pattern. Sundays and holiday evenings are the busiest hours of the week here.
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.
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.
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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