The Santa Cruz neighborhood is one of the oldest in Alicante. This enclave of labyrinthine streets sits half way up Mount Benacantil, the mountain that looms over Alicante looking down at the harbor. The narrow alleyways are lined with stairs and long walkways with colorful houses built on either side.
Residents come and go amiably passing among the travellers who cross their paths. Addresses and first names are framed in brilliant tiles surrounding the front doors and windows. Colorful flowers trim the doorsteps.
We live at the foot of Santa Cruz now, where the steep steps soften and blend into the flat streets and walkways near our apartment. We can walk out the front door and up the hill to a little, tucked in plaza, the center of a radiating wheel of walkways. We can explore, stop for lunch in a tapas bar in the plaza then continue on our way through the maze. I cannot think of a better way to spend a sunny afternoon.
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🤔So few imported cars. Or even domestic ones for that matter. 👍😊🇪🇸
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Santa Cruz is all steep walkways with two narrow streets at the top and bottom of the neighborhood. We saw a couple of very small parking lots at the edges of the neighborhood and wondered where the residents park. Carrying groceries home must be a challenge. We watched a car inch it’s way forward on what the driver thought was a street. A local shooed him away making him back all the way up the alley with inches of clearance on both sides of the car. There we many spectators gathered to see the denouement.
Now that is a street to live in.
Agreed. There was a warm neighborhood feel to Santa Cruz. It is clear people are proud of their homes.