Things to see and do Elche

If Elche does not lack assets to visit, the city also has six beaches enjoying an environment of dunes and pine trees, very pleasant and quite exceptional on this coast. In the north, the three beaches, El Altet, Arenales del Sol and Carabassí are perfect for water sports, from the wind and the richness of the sea beds. In the south, you will find El Pinet, La Marina and Les Pesquere-el Rebollo. All beaches are equipped and Arenales del sol offers even a very chic club, < i > Life Beach Arenales < /i > club, composed of huts with beds of Balinese type, perfectly camouflaged in the dunes, where you can indulge yourself to the < i > paddle surf < /i > or doing nothing, with a drink.

Possibility of renting bicycles at the tourist office during opening hours.

With a number of palm trees estimated between 200,000 and 300,000, it is the largest palm plantation of all Europe, which was worth to him to be classified with the heritage of UNESCO in 2000, as a testimony of the cultural transmission of the East to the Occident and remains of an exceptional system of irrigation, inherited the culture of Al-Andalus. It understands more than 2,800 species of date palms, whose life oscillates between 200 and 300 years, some reaching 30 meters in height. Although its original goes back to prehistory since the Phoenician ones would have introduced the date palms like way of subsistence during their maritime crossings, its expansion occurred following the foundation by the Arabs of the new town of Elche, on its current campsite, of XVIII^e in IX^e centuries, establishment which was accompanied by a vast network of irrigation which persists still at the present time. Remote view, the Palm plantation can resemble a forest but it acts by way of an agrarian plantation whose plots and its regroupings are called vergers. Each plot is flanked by alignments of palm trees, which seen sky, resemble squarings. The steps created inside were traditionally devoted to the agricultural cultures. Survival during centuries of this system of agriculture of oasis was also one of the aspects evaluated by UNESCO. Today, its function is more landscaped and cultural that agricultural. But it always produces blank sheets of palm trees, for Palm Sunday in Spain, and its date harvests continue to supply the local market. Various roads are proposed to you to traverse it of which the road of the Palm plantation traversing of the gardens of traditional palm trees and le Park of palmeres de Fillet of Fora.