Discover the most curious stories hidden in the city of Alicante and its scary past full of wars, epidemics and murders.
Join our Alicante Ghost Free Walking Tour and explore the city in a very frightening way. This experience takes you to a world of legends about murders, wars and the hard pest suffered by this Valencian city in the past. Discover the numerous ghost hidden in Alicante and enjoy a great route under the moonlight.
With the company of our Spanish speaking guide, we will unfold the most horrifying stories. We will visit the Portal de Elche, a vibrant and beautiful square where the people used to be executed in gallows. Then, we will continue to Santa Cruz, one of the most popular areas in Alicante due to the black pest that destroyed the city. This disease was, together with the smallpox, one of the hardest ones that took hundreds of citizens to the death. We will then explore the Ermita de San Roque, the saint that was associated to these epidemics.
We will also move forward the main leisure places, which host the darkest secrets, as still nowadays there are cadavers literally buried underground. Some of them were banished to be exhibited somewhere.
Without a shadow of doubt, we can’t miss the opportunity to step back in time to the war. We will relive the pain in the city during the Spanish Civil War. Did you know that Alicante was the last Republican city that left the war? Every corner here suffered bombings and fights, and one of the most famous places in this conflict was the Plaza del Doctor Balmis, which hosts a bomb shelter.
We will also relive the fights between Jaime II and Nicolas Peris; the history about the several Alicante conquests. It is said that these characters combated to gain the city and their spirits still wander along this square to seek revenge.
Did you know about all these mysteries hidden in Alicante? We will unfold all the secrets and frightening stories about our destination with our Alicante Ghost Free Walking Tour.