Alicante · Marina Baixa
Benidorm
A compact vertical city whose planned towers rise behind Levante and Poniente, while the old centre still occupies the headland between them.
Alicante · Marina Baixa
A compact vertical city whose planned towers rise behind Levante and Poniente, while the old centre still occupies the headland between them.
Planning, skyline and shore
Benidorm's skyline is the visible result of decades of municipal planning, with slender residential and hotel towers set behind the long curves of Levante and Poniente.
At its centre, the old streets and church of Sant Jaume occupy the headland between the beaches, preserving the scale of the fishing town from which the modern city grew.
Fast facts
INE padrón, 1 Jan 2025
69,045 in 2015
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How the 1956 plan, later rule changes and public spaces between the towers made Benidorm a deliberately vertical city.
Published 1 September 2026
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