Location: A quick 12-minute drive from Alicante Airport, Santa Pola is perfect for travellers taking advantage of budget flights.
Climate: With more than 300 sunny days annually with a near constant breeze. Santa Pola boasts a temperate climate, with summer temperatures rarely exceeding 38 degrees and winter temperatures rarely dipping below 10 degrees.
Typically Spanish: Santa Pola is an excellent choice for anyone wanting to enjoy Spanish culture without the hustle and bustle of British tourist areas.
Beach & sea: With 11 km of beautiful beaches and shallow, warm waters, Santa Pola is perfect for families and swimmers.
Watersports: Santa Pola offers a water sports paradise including surfboarding, paddleboarding, kitesurfing, jet skiing, canoeing, snorkeling, and scuba diving.
Sport: With options for paragliding, bike rentals for cycling, skydiving, and regular running races, Santa Pola is ideal for active holidaymakers.
Food: Wander to the seafront café bars in Santa Pola for paella, originally created in nearby Valencia; head to Glorieta Plaza in Santa Pola for an endless choice of eateries, perfect for any palate and enjoy a breakfast of hot chocolate and churros in Santa Pola’s charming Chocolate Square.
Pirates: Discover Santa Pola’s fascinating past, including Roman ruins and a thrilling legacy of piracy. You can even take a boat across Pirate Bay to Pirate Island (Tabarca).
Museums: Visit the three Santa Pola museums to learn about the town’s deep connection to fishing, maritime history and salt production.
Kids: Exhilarating watersports offering summer camps and lessons; enjoy a memorable day at Elche Safari complete with a safari adventure and a refreshing splash park; Pola Park offers a delightful amusement park experience perfect for children under 10; Take an exciting glass-bottom boat trip to Tabarca.
Adventures on foot: Enjoy a stroll along the many beaches; walk along the promenade; explore the castle and its museums; visit the city centre aquarium; wander through the fishing port; savor hot chocolate and churros in the market square; visit the municipal market and take a tour around the Roman ruins.
Daytrips further afield: Discover the largest Palm Tree Grove in Europe (Elche); the scenic Palmarel Park in Alicante (Alicante); experience breathtaking views from the Skywalk (Gran Alacan); explore the historic Santa Barbara Castle (Alicante); wander through charming and quaint streets of Altea Old Town and hike up the iconic Peñón de Ifach (Calpe).
Nature: Enjoy the 2470 hecaters which create the unique ecosystems of Santa Pola Natural Park. Winter is an excellent time to visit to see great cormorant, osprey, western marsh harrier, northern pintail, water rail, gadwall, Eurasian wigeon, northern shoveler, Eurasian teal, little bittern, great egret, grey plover, northern lapwing, sanderling, dunlin, curlew sandpiper, little stint, bar-tailed godwit, black-tailed godwit, Eurasian curlew, spotted redshank, common greenshank, common redshank, common sandpiper, ruddy turnstone, lesser black-backed gull, Mediterranean gull, sandwich tern, common kingfisher and bluethroat.
