This Esplanade walk is lined on both sides with several rows of elegant palm trees. The ground is paved with 6,600,000 tricolour marble tiles, forming a distinctive wavy mosaic that can be used in different ways when filming.
This elegant pedestrian promenade is a perfect location for scenes in refined outdoor settings, thanks also to Alicante’s large number of daylight hours throughout the year.
Furthermore, the Esplanade houses the iconic Casa Carbonell: a private building with over a hundred years of history. Its main facade can be an advantage when filming scenes requiring bourgeois-looking buildings.
The Santa Faz Monastery is a rectangular building with a truncated pyramid volume, located in a hamlet of the same name, 7 km away from the municipality of Alicante.
The compound includes the main church surrounded by the rest of its dependencies. The church’s architectural structure results from a range of renewals, notably an eighteenth-century renovation which gave the monument its current Baroque appearance.
The altarpiece of the main altar is of neo-baroque style. The composer Óscar Esplá and the artist Eusebio Sempere are buried inside. These two figures are the only contemporary personalities to have been buried in the monastery.
The sixteenth century tower is the only element left from the original building. It is located on one side of the monastery’s hortus courtyard, east of the cloister.
The Santa Faz Monastery holds a relic brought from the Vatican in the fifteenth century. Popular tradition holds that it corresponds to a linen with which Veronica dried the bloody face of Jesus on the way to Calvary.
The downtown area of Alicante offers many squares that can fulfil the requirements of all sorts of shots:
Gabriel Miró Square is a few meters away from the Explanada de España. An impressive fountain stands in a peaceful atmosphere and leafy century-old ficus trees. This pedestrian square is a perfect setting to shoot romantic or intimate scenes. The Post Office Building, a recently restored modernist building, also gives on to the square.
Portal de Elche: this small pedestrian square also has leafy centuries-old ficus trees and a round kiosk in the centre, currently offering a cafeteria service. Surrounded by old, stately buildings, the site is ideal to shoot scenes set in the early twentieth century or depicting traditional daily life.
Other interesting locations include Doctor Balmis Square, with a huge urban graffiti on the parking lot façade. A Civil War air-raid shelter is also located here.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information on these sites or other squares in Alicante to film in.
The Monte Tossal sports area occupies an extensive area of the city and offers different sports grounds: public facilities include the Athletics Stadium, the Technification Centre, the sports city or the old Hippodrome, not to forget the José Rico Pérez del Hércules Football Stadium, that presides over the sports complex.
Alicante city presents a discontinuous territory with up to 11 rural lands or areas separated from the main nucleus of the municipality such as: Nueva Tabarca Island, Santa Faz or Monnegre. If you are looking for quaint places and a contrast between natural and urban landscapes, there are some great filming locations. Please contact us for any further details you may need on Alicante’s rural areas.
