L'Alfàs del Pi

L' Alfas del Pi ( Spanish Alfaz del Pi) is a coastal town in the Alicante province of the Autonomous Valencian Community in Spain. It belongs to the district of Marina Baixa.

L' Alfas del Pi had with an area of 19.3 km ² on 1 January 2013, according to the Spanish authority inhabitants 21 969 inhabitants. The Mediterranean city thrives on tourism of the Costa Blanca, whose development began in the 1970s here. L' Alfas del Pi has 930 houses and 4,000 more in surrounding residential areas. The proportion of foreigners, mostly Scandinavians, Dutch and British, is almost 50%. L' Alfas del Pi is considered a stronghold of the Norwegians in Spain.

History

L' Alfas del Pi was founded in 1786 as a fortress to defend against North African pirates ( Berber ). 1836 reached the town its administrative autonomy. Over 125 years of L' Alfas del Pi was a rural community that lived by agricultural terrace cultivation and clay mining in the Sierra Helada. The tourist boom of Benidorm in the 1970s, there have been waves of emigration to South America and North Africa.

Worth seeing is the Catholic Church Cristo del Buen Acierto, which was built in 1784 and on whose premises the city's symbol, a pine tree grows. The city hosts every year since 1997 a film festival.

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