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The geometric salt pans of Santa Pola leading towards the low coastal town, its bay and the cape lighthouse
Town

Alicante · Baix Vinalopó

Santa Pola

A fishing and salt-working town on its broad bay, with a 2,470-hectare wetland to the west and Tabarca lying offshore beyond the cape.

Salt works and waterbirds

A town between the salinas and the bay

Santa Pola faces a broad bay from the site of the Roman port that served Ilici, with a fishing harbour and a compact centre gathered around its sixteenth-century fortress.

West of the town, working salt pans preserve part of the old coastal wetland. Offshore beyond the cape, Tabarca's walled settlement and marine reserve form a separate island landscape most directly reached and understood from Santa Pola.

Fast facts

INE padrón, 1 Jan 2025

Population
39,709
Change since 2015
+25%

31,657 in 2015

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The salinas and the island offshore

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