Alicante, located in the Spanish province of Valencia, is a focal point of the Costa Blanca with its popular tourist beaches.
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Its Arab castle, once destroyed and then rebuilt by Christians as the Castillo de Santa Bárbara, impressively dominates the city from the Benacantil hill. The city has a number of fine Baroque buildings, among them the Museo de la Asegurada, which has a collection of contemporary art and is in the process of being extended according to a design by the architects Sol Madridejos and Juan Carlos Sancho.
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