In the Newspaper
El País, has made a very interesting article of Benidorm. I am going to pass it through the Translator of Babelfish, without publishing, sorry the errors.
“The dawns in the East beach of Benidorm are more evocative in autumn than in August. The other great beach, the one of the West, are also oversized in its length. But the one of the East it is visited, prodigal in cafeterias and people taking a walk. It is his capacity to give it everything – from his more built-up nucleus to his two evocative bays which has done of Benidorm somewhat difficult to forget. Whereas the rest of the Spanish coast has characterized by the call ” urbanism disperso” , this city bets by ” hiperdenso”. To continue being the paradigm of the growth to the stop, instead of a wide it. Arranged continuously to lodge to 300,000 souls every seven days. In the beach of the West is the highest hotel of Europe – the Bali, of 186 meters and is developed to the residential project more stop of the European Union (the philosophy of the Bali taken to the paroxysm): the building In Tempo, of 200 meters, without terraces and with peak in the form of M (it was gotten to say that it was in memory of 11-M), whose commercial grandiloquence sets out to compete with Vegas or Abu Dhabi. In spite of their overwhelming effect on the senses and the taste by the average thing, the local authorities defend that this model that looks for the spectacularity for the massive public is less harmful than many others: officially, only 30% of the municipal term are built. And much people find in his skyline something impressive to which she can aspire. ” I see it like Fertile valleys of the Mediterráneo” , it says Loles Peris, regular tourist of Castellon de la Plana of 38 years. ” But here, aside from the buildings, you have opening of spaces, an incredible marine stroll, the small barren island of Benidorm – that sees from beaches and a hotel supply for any bolsillo”. The places of hotel in the city – to divide of 20 Euros the night they do not lower of 40,000, to which there would be to add 18,000 more of apartments and 11,000 of camping. Here it fits from the modern one to the pachanguero. Outside summer season there are no oppression, but it is movement. The topic insists on tying that movement with the tourism of Imserso that dances the small birds to are of Maria Jesus and his accordion (she acts in the cafeteria Sands, of the East beach). Nuria Montes, Secretary General of the hotel employer’s association Hosbec, aims that ” the tourism of Imserso represents only 15%”. ” It is certain that the autumn and the winter are of tourism senior” , it explains, ” but there is no a supply thought only for mayores”. Playful supply The great discotheques or the amusement park Mythical Terra abren in determined dates, but, generally, the playful supply stays. The city offers almost 400 restaurants, 270 cafeterias, 25 clubs nocturnes, 28 halls chance games, 13 thematic rooms of cinemas and parks like Terra Natura. The traveller can also go to the suggestive natural park of the Frozen Mountain range, and make trips to populations with enchantment like Altea or Guadalest. Any activity outdoors is possible, since Benidorm is surrounded by small mountainous systems that allow annual average temperatures of 18 degrees. One can first thing get wet the feet of the day – the bath is for radicals, to wander soon by the streets of the historical center, to buy trinkets in bazaars, to watch clothes of skin or design in outlets, to have dinner in a Indian by six Euros, to attend a night club like the Benidorm Palace and to finish the dawn of thousand ways. ” 75% of our public in autumn are británico” , it points Nuria Montes, ” although they arrive until from Islandia”. At least, before the world-wide crisis was fattened in this last country. Of any way, Benidorm always has had a special connection with the most frozen part of Europe. The mayor who drove the city in the Fifties, Pedro Saragossa, was engaged in to promote it to lapones with suit folkloric. He bore his fruit: eleven million pernoctaciones occur annually in Benidorm, and the occupation average is of a 80%. Until influential architectonic study Dutch MVRDV, in his book Iberian Coast, it mentions the vertical urbanism of Benidorm like future solution to palliate the environmental impact. A vision of the city near the one of a microcosm MGP is come off it in which everything is possible. Much more it completes that kitsch and cañí that as much the Spanish cinema has reflected, united perhaps to the memory of the Festival of the Song of Benidorm. Although there are different films good rolled here. For example, the possibility of an island, of Michel Houellebecq, with scenes filmed in the Bali hotel. This grayish colossus is able to arrange in autumn of festivales of rockabilly, massive contests of chess or great concentrations to unmarried. Although with unequal fortune, the hotel plant of the city has been put the batteries. The truth is that today already a real supply of establishments of high level occurs, gets worse the fashion of the thematic hotels and the installation of spa has become general. ” The complete pension with animation day and night has become one tradición” , Jane Fortea explains, of the chain of travel agencies Check-in-Travel. ” With that, Benidorm is able to retain to the visitors in the hotels many horas” , it exposes. And outside it waits for a city to them of leisure that does not stop.”