On the fabled Spanish Costa Blanca, Benidorm was a sleepy fishing village until increasingly cheap plane travel saw a tourist boom in the 1960s. Now, perhaps unfairly, it has a reputation as being a place reserved only for boozed up Brits looking for lager and fish and chips in a sunnier climate than back at home. Whilst Benidorm certainly does provide that, there is also a more traditional Spanish side to the city as well as some of the best utilitarian architecture this side of 1960.
Daniel Simon