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  • Águilas’s lighthouse stands guard at the southern end of the bay, near the town’s pretty fishing port. Painted in black and white stripes, it looks like something out of a storybook. To complete the picture, above it looms the dramatic castle.

  • Alicante’s Modernista-style market has all kinds of delicious fresh produce, and pretty flower stalls.

  • Alicante’s main wine-producing regions are around Monóvar and El Pinós (see Wine Towns), which make robust reds and a famous sweet dessert wine called El Fondillón. Teulada also produces good sweet dessert wines called mistelas .

  • An art market is held every evening during summer in the Plaza Iglesia at the top of the old village.

  • A big market is held every Wednesday in Benidorm, with lots of fresh food, as well as clothes and souvenirs.

  • For the gastronomically adventurous – lambs’ heads roasted in the oven with tomatoes, garlic and wine.

  • Cabo de Palos

    The view from the huge lighthouse overlooking the fishing village of Cabo de Palos is very different depending on which way you face: on one side, you’ll see the Mediterranean crashing dramatically on the cliffs; on the other, the tranquil waters of the Mar Menor.

  • A straggling dirt track leads to the lighthouse at the tip of this wild and beautiful headland, gazing out over crashing waves, long fingers of rock, and tiny, hidden bays.

  • Kid cooked with a piquant, garlicky sauce – popular in the northern sierras of Murcia.

  • This rich, liquid stew, usually made with broth, rice and seafood, exists in many regional variations. One of the best known is the caldero tabarquino , a speciality of theIsla Tabarca. Inland variations will often incorporate locally raised meat and game, or add some highly flavoured cured sausage.

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