{"id":890,"date":"2010-05-10T11:19:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:34:49","slug":"santa-pola-alicante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/santa-pola-alicante\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Pola Alicante"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_895\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1010833-santa-pola-port-200px1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895\" title=\"P1010833 santa pola port 200px\" src=\"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1010833-santa-pola-port-200px1.jpg\" alt=\"The Port at Santa Pola\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port at Santa Pola<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A popular coastal town located to the south of Alicante on the Costa Blanca, Spain, Santa Pola has a population of around 30,000 and a municipal area of 58 square kilometres. Possibly visited by Greeks and Phoenicians even before the arrival of the Romans, it later became <em>Portus Ilicitanus<\/em> under the Romans. Important over the centuries for fishing and salt production, <a title=\"Santa Pola Spain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/santa-pola.html\">Santa Pola<\/a> saw the arrival of tourism in the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, this added with property development saw the town grow in size to its present dimensions. Attracting mostly Spanish holidaymakers, Santa Pola has miles of sandy beaches and a large marina and port, the southern beach areas are especially popular for kitesurfing and windsurfing, with weather conditions ideal for these sports. From the port you can take a boat trip to the nearby island of <a title=\"Tabarca Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/tabarca.html\">Tabarca<\/a> where there are some great opportunities for scuba diving or just simply enjoying the beaches and the sunshine in tranquil conditions. Santa Pola is situated just off the N-332 between <a title=\"Alicante Costa Blanca\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alicante.my-costa-blanca.co.uk\/\">Alicante<\/a> and Guardamar del Segura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular coastal town located to the south of Alicante on the Costa Blanca, Spain, Santa Pola has a population of around 30,000 and a municipal area of 58 square kilometres. Possibly visited by Greeks and Phoenicians even before the arrival of the Romans, it later became Portus Ilicitanus under the Romans. Important over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,6,38,18],"tags":[22,363,311,557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}