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Homeowners with second homes in the province of Alicante are applying for damage certificates as an excuse to enter the region. Owners, mainly from Madrid, are looking for a way to get around the anti-Covid travel restrictions. Even in the case of real damage, there is usually no need for an owner to travel, as […]
Benidorm beach is the third most photographed beach in Spain, on the photo-sharing website Flickr. In total, more than 71,000 photos were taken from the beach. This concerns almost 17% of all beach photos tagged in Spain. Sitges claimed first place, with Tarifa second and Maspalomas beach in Gran Canaria fourth. The website has over […]
Some 3,000 teachers from Alicante are refusing the AstraZeneca vaccine. Nevertheless, the Minister of Health says he is still happy with the progress made. After two days of massive vaccination of teaching staff in the Valencian Community, more than half of all teachers in the province of Alicante have received the first dose of AstraZeneca. […]
The number of “autónomos” in the province of Alicante increased during the corona pandemic. This is evident from figures from the Instituto de Estudios Económicos de Alicante (Ineca). 22% of all workers are self-employed in the province. At the end of January 2021, 133,394 self-employed persons were registered in the province of Alicante, while 474,442 […]
The municipality of Elche has approved a motion to start a pilot project. That project aims to reduce the working week to 32 hours or four days, as proposed by the central government. The plan should encourage employers to test the initiative. A reduction in working hours would have a positive effect on the country’s […]
Torrevieja will spend 39,975 euros on renewing the lighting in the municipality. It concerns all inner streets in the business park Casa Grande in Torrevieja. According to the Urban Services department, it will take about four months to replace the existing street lighting. According to a spokesperson for the municipality, the new LED lighting will […]
The region of Valencia has been officially declared a ‘low risk area’. The number of corona reports in the region of Valencia fell this week to below 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There are currently 44.71 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health. It is the first time since […]
German airlines have responded to the lifting of Germany’s travel warning for the Costa Blanca and will start offering flights from Germany to Alicante again from the Easter holidays. Ryanair flies, among others, from Cologne-Bonn, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Bremen, Baden Baden and Düsseldorf, initially once a week per airport. Many Dutch people also fly […]
The Mayor of l’Alfàs del Pi, Vicente Arques, together with the Alderman for Social Welfare, Marisa Cortés, congratulated the twenty-one people who work at the Department of Social Welfare of the municipality of l’Alfàs del Pi, for their professionalism, dedication and effort. It has been a year since the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. […]
A total of 210 town halls in the Valencia region have joined the Xarxa plan. It is a plan of the regional government. The plan aims to create public energy-producing communities. Residents and businesses can sign up to help produce solar energy.
