Visit picturesque Calpe, fishing town with the famous Peñón d’Ifach
Calpe is a coastal municipality of Alicante located about 20 kilometres from Benidorm, with a population reaching almost 30,000 inhabitants, and of which more than 60% are of foreign nationality, mainly German. So much so, that they held here in October the famous German Beer Festival known as ‘Oktoberfest‘. The distinctive symbol of Calpe is the Peñón de Ifach, a boulder of calcareous rock of about 50,000 square metres which reaches 332 meters above sea level, making it the highest cliff in the Mediterranean. It is a landform caused by a landslide of the Sierra d’Olta mountain. Today, it houses […]