Alicante Streetcar - Underground

In autumn 2003 Alicante got a totally new system of streetcar trains called the Tram. If you do not hire a car for your holidays around the Costa Blanca, the Tram streetcar is certainly an alternative, at least to get to the northern subburbs of Alicante.

Alicante Underground

The Alicante streetcar railway net is currently (2008) extended to part of the center of Alicante. Some of the railway lines will be even underground, so perhaps you want to call the Alicante streetcar than an underground or metro. (Just as you like).

If plan on car hire or have your own car during your holidays, and you want to avoid any traffic jams in Alicante, you could just leave your rental car at the beaches of San Juan or El Campello and within 15 minutes you are at Alicante harbor (puerta del mar), close to the city centre..

Click here to get details of where the Alicante Streetcar and Narrow Gauge Railway stops.

For the moment the electric streetcar brings you every 30 minutes from Alicante harbor in front of the Melia Hotel, via the Alicante Narrow Gauge Railway Station to El Campello, along the Cabo de la Huertas and directly to the beach of San Juan. It is an excellent transport oportunity for any tourist who stays in downtown Alicante, but wants to spend a day at the beach.

Important sidenote (for Alicante newbies), the streetcar system is currently NOT connected to the main train station in Alicante (we are still waiting for this to happen ... one day .. perhaps :-).

Alicante Streetcar connected to Northern Costa Blanca Cities via the Narrow Gauge Railway Train in El Campello

At El Campello a suburb village just north of Alicante, you can then change from the Alicante Tram (streetcar) to the FGV Narrow Gauge Railway which brings you up north along the Costa Blanca to all major cities like Benidorm, Altea, Calpe, Teulada and Denia.

Please find an enlarged Map of the FGV Railway to Benidorm Altea Calpe and Denia here.