Talk:Alicante

Name of the city
The city of Alacant/Alicante has two official names. Alacant is the original Catalan one. The Spanish name Alicante was given by Franco. During this time Catalan language was interdicted. All villages got Spanish names and even family names were re-named. After death of the dictator the city became Alacant again but the Spanish name stayed official as a second hand name. Habitants of Alacant prefer the Catalan name because their mother tongue is Catalan. Because of this reasons, we re-named the German article in Alacant. You should re-name the English article, too. Best wishes Hanno Meissner


 * In en:wiki, with few exceptions, we use the name with which English speakers are most familiar, e.g. Florence, not Firenze, although we mention other names in the beginning of the article. The name by which this town is known in English is Alicante. - Montr&eacute;alais 21:06, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, but in this case Alicante is not the English name for Alacant like Florence for Firence (in German we call it Florenz). Alicante is a name that was given by a dictator to supress Catalan inhabitants. Before the World War 2, only a small number of people went to Spain for their holidays so only a few people knew Alacant. After war more people visited Spain and during this time the official name was Alicante. Because of this, people in England got to know the city as Alicante. In the German Wikipedia we have a REDIRECT-connection from Alicante to Alacant. On this way elder people can find the article as Alicante and young people accustom to the name Alacant and get to know the city as Alacant. I think It's better. We shouldn't use names given by a dictator like Franco any more. We should forget them. Or dou you still know Litzmannstadt (it's the name Hitler gave to the Polish city of Lodz)? We should make the real names more popular. Best regards, Hanno Meissner


 * I agree with you that it would be preferable if English speakers would call it Alacant. However, we do not have the authority as encyclopedists to effect that change. There is some precedent for preferring a less well known title due to an older title's offensiveness, but as far as I can tell, that is only when the less well known title is still widely known. I'm prepared to debate the question, however. - Montr&eacute;alais 05:58, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! I think it's an important point. Best wishes, Hanno Meissner

To Hanno Meisner

Habitants of Alacant prefer the Catalan name because their mother tongue is Catalan

Alicante has got 316,178 inhabitants, 10% are from other countries likes Argentina, Ecuador and Chili. Other 90% are from Spain. Spanish alicantinian name "Alicante" his city because they speak spanish in 85%-90%. Only 10% of the spanish population of Alicante speak catalan. You can see the dates in www.gva.es or in other social studes. And the name in spanish isn't from Franco, it exist at 15th century, is so old than the catalan name. From an alicantinian.


 * I'm agree whith this alicantinian. I'm an alacantinian Catalan-speaker, and the Catalan name of Alacant is older as its Spanish name, Alicante. But I'm not agree about the 10% of the population speaks catalan, it must be more exactly explained: the 10% speaks commonly catalan, but the catalan comprehension language is 85% of the population, and the 70% of the population knows speaks Catalan as billingual. By another subject, the name of Alacant cames from the arabic name of Medina Laqant, wich means "Lighting City" taked from the latin name Lukentum, and itselves taked from phoenician name of Akra Leuka. But the arabic population from Alacant (from 8th to 13th century) called it commonly as al-Laqant, wich means "the lighting", and when Catalan and Aragonese christians arrived in 13th century, changed the name to Alacant, Catalan name gave by the King James I "the Conqueror" of Aragon, in his own chronicles book Llibre dels Fets ("Book of facts"). But Alacant was ofered to the King Alfonso X "the learned" of Castille, who changed the name to Villa Laqant. Around 50 years after of it, Alacant returned to Aragonese dominion, under the Kingdom of Valencia. --Martorell 11:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It is not the same thing a language is able to speak that to speak it habitually. That great people in Alicante can speak Valencian it does not want to say that it is his language like your and I we can write in English but it is not our language either.

Anyhow the numbers that you give are not correct. According to the study of the Town hall of Alicante that can turn in http://www.alicante-ayto.es/ompv/home.html It is not a 85 % the one that the Catalan understands, It is 81 %. And it is not 70 % those who can speak it, but only 28 %. In the city of Alicante, which is about that one speaks in this article, the majority of the people speaks Spanish, we like it or not, and there is in use more the name "Alicante" than "Alacant". It is not necessary to confuse what we would like with the reality.


 * You're in truth. I would apologize for the mistaken that I've done. I probably was confused with another survey. Altough the catalan language was forbiden in Alacant until year 1975, it's gainning in more and more speakers since 1986. From the same study you give below, let's to see the table of percentages:

It's clear there are an important recovering of catalan-speakers group in Alacant, and the latest data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística of year 2003, gives the percentage of alacantinian catalan-speaker the 33% of alacantinian population.

And about the name, both name are widely known, and both are also official in the law here in Spain. It's meaning that in the maps edited in Spain by the Administation it's obligatory to use both names, in any language used. --Martorell 23:16, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Don't make me laugh!
VALENCIAN has not been spoken in Alicante for more than 60 years even before Francos times Valencian had disapered as a family language from the homes of Alicante except in some outsirks suburbs. Nowaydays anyone speaks in social life valencian you can only hear it very ocasssionaly when the people from nearby villages go for shopping at the weekends in high street but these people don't life in the city.Family use is only betweeen families coming fron valencian speaking towns but never between true Alicantinosa and it's use can not be more that 5-10%. About the figures that you have just given are not an expresion of the reality. It is true that the people have a general knowledge of valencian but it is because is compulsory to stady it at school or to became a civil servant even though is not spoken in the city more than english. We also watch the valencian chanel canal 9 which is broadcast in valencian and hear the valencian language in nearby towns like MUTXAMEL,CAMPELLO,LA VILA JOIOSA OR CASTALLA thats the reason because 22 speak it and 56 understands it but it doesn't mean that we use it as a every day language we also understand english but it doest't imply that we use it with our family or friends to speak each other.

ABOUT THE NAME ALICANTE "INVENTED" FOR FRANCO WAS THE NAME USE FOR EVERYONE TO CALL THE CITY AROUND 1940 BECAUSE AT THAT TIME ALICANTE WAS ALREADY SPANISH SPEAKING.this name is very old and it come up in Novels like Rob Roy by Walter Scott written at the begining of the XIX century. Just check it before telling lies.

In the web page of Alicante council www.alicante.es you can find objective information about the decline of the valencian language in Alicante. Summing up

1.Around 1880 it had disapered in the center and west of the city and the middle class didn't speak it anymore

2. Around 1940 had already disapered in the whole city

3. 2004 Valencian language is disapering as a living languaguage from san Vicente ,San Joan, Mutxmel y Campello where is still spoken but be sure that not for a long time as a result of his phisical union with Alicante.

Nowdays the valencian dictatorship impose us to stady valencian which used to be spoken here one hundred years ago but we dont't like to look back to the past we just look to the future and the freedom to stady in our mother toungue: SPANISH

I would like to point out to the person above that the data you use cannot be right. I am not the one to refuse a scientific study (to which I havent looked at)but i can tell that until the spanish civil war the common language spoken in Alicante was catalan. My 100 year-old grandmother, who is spanish-speaking as she is from Melilla, do not know anything about stats, languages and all that stuff, however, when she tells stories (in spanish) from the times she was a child, she always turns to catalan when reproducing conversations. Its so significant, but if you wish real data, there is a book called "Alacant:la llengua interrompuda" written by Brauli Montoya, that deals with all that you are concerned. The author states that the real turning point was the civil war, after which catalan language was repressed. Un d'Alacant

I remind you that I am also imposed spanish not only as a simple subject at the school, but also as the only language of study in uni and college. Be a little tolerant towards your neighbours.

Hello Anonymous! Valencian isn't a seperate language but a Catalan dialect. All other statements made by Spanish speaking people are politicals motivated. Centralists (an Spanish nationalists) fear of a too large Catalan population (8 mio). So they divide it in Catalans and Valencians. I think you aren't right that the language of the future will be Spanish in Alacant/Alicante. The Catalan speaking regions get more and more economic power. Today, Spanish speaking regions are dependent of Catalan speaking regions. Because of this economic power the Catalan language will get more and more power in the whole country as well. If the government in Madrid wants to keep Spain united for the future they'll have to grant the Catalan language a more powerful status on the national level than today. Maybe, in about twenty years, Spain will be constituted like Swiss as a country with different equal languages. I cannot look to future but I could imagine such a development. I am from Germany and because of this I am a neutral observer of the political situation in Spain. I'm sure that these points are very emocional an hard to accept for a Spanish speaking person like you. But please realize reality. Spain is a multi-ethnic country and not a homogeneous nation state Franco liked it to be. Every attempt to change these circumstances will lead to the collapse of the Spanish state. You should better be proud of the cultural wealthiness of your country and not deny it. I like Spain with all its languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque. Best wishes from Germany! Hanno Meissner, Wolfsburg

The template solution is not the right one, ask Google
There is no need for a template about Alacant/Alicante. This does not fit within the way wikipedia is designed. Alacant needs to be a redirect to Alicante. The article on Alicante is sufficient. Google test: Google returns 10,200,000 for Alicante and 730,000 for Alacant .--Edcolins 07:14, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

For a comparison, see also the Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (the region is officially bilingual). Many have officially both a French and Dutch names: Ixelles, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Saint-Gilles, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and so on. --Edcolins 07:40, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Joanot, please do not unilaterally revert my change, without first discussing. The template solution is not a good solution. --Edcolins 10:14, May 20, 2005 (UTC)


 * Unilaterally? After to discuss it you've made the changes already. I've discussed you it in the discussion page of Template:Alacant/Alicante. --Martorell 14:09, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


 * You just highlighted the fact that your solution is not persuasive. Talk page management would become hell, etc. As said on the other talk page (sic):
 * "I haven't said Google test is the ultimate one, but it is certainly a rather fair one especially when it turns out that it reveals a 10,200,000 / 730,000 ratio. One article is needed, otherwise there are two pages, two (or three) talk pages, etc. Links within wikipedia would have to select one of the two articles. That would completely flaw your solution."
 * If there were a possible random selection among Alicante and Alacant on every wikipedia page, your solution might be viable, but there isn't. --Edcolins 07:18, May 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * Google gives me a ratio of 11,400,000 / 1.500.000, and Yahoo! (wich has indexed over 50% of the net) gives me 9,010,000 / 1,460,000. I don't know why it gives this difference. Anyway, I have understood finally the troubles about using this template, especially about the talk pages. Ok. I'm sorry, I only wanted to give a solution to cities with more than one official name wich wouldn't have any preferencial use. Because if there aren't any English name for a city, why to use the most used name? This question is specially focused in the case of cities where exists an own language (in adding of the language's State), then it would be more closed to common sense using its name in its own language. It's the case of Alicante, a Spanish name, but Alacant is its name in its own language. Thanks and, again, sorry about the template, and about my poor English. --Martorell 08:24, 21 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I have two points of view disappointing your opinion.


 * First, technically, using templates would be te same as using redirections. Wouldn't it be???. If the problem is the talk pages, why not to use in Talk:Alicante and Talk:Alacant pages a redirection to Template talk:Alacant/Alicante??


 * Second, legally, in Spain there are two laws that states the official term of Alacant as "Alacant/Alicante", one of these laws, a valencian autonomous law, says that at Alacant there is a linguistic predominance of Valencian Catalan over the Castillian Spanish (see Law about using and teching of Valencian in Spanish, at the Title V, and article 35). The other law, a Spanish state law, states that the official names of cities on autonomous lands where there are more than one official language, it must respect the autonomous laws about linguistic guidelines. And about it, the Alacant City Council has accorded the official name in its bilingual form, so according both laws, the official name is "Alacant/Alicante", first Alacant in its order because its legal linguistic predominance. In its case, if it's not proper about using separate both terms througt a template, why not about to rename the article as "Alacant/Alicante"?. In the body text both names would be used randomized.


 * I'm trying to find this solution about no preferential use of any of both term, because it would be really an NPOV --Martorell 09:14, 21 May 2005 (UTC)


 * PD: For more information about official names of valencian municipalities, we can read a list of municipalities in the Land of Valencia, where there are datas about this name in valencian or spanish, and in its official name. --Martorell 09:28, 21 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Using one name instead of another in the English wikipedia does not abate the local legality of the latter. See Naming convention:
 * "Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature."
 * Cheers. --Edcolins 12:13, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Airport link
Changed the link to the airport to the offical one as the one there was mainly an advertisement for cheap flights and car rental.

The real figures are that in the city of ALICANTE Valenciano is not spoken nowdays,only in the norther areas from PAIS ALICANTINO-ALICANTE'S LANDS- close to the border with Land of Valencia the Valenciano language is still spoken in some villiages.

External link
I added a link pointing to www.bootsnall.com/articles/06-09/a-handful-of-spanish-towns-elche-orihuela-murcia-cartagena-and-alicante-spain.html "A Handful of Spanish Towns" This is a travel story connecting Alicante, Elche, Orihuela, Murcia and Cartagena.

Scribbleman 08:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Please wait for a response on this talkpage when you announce your intentions to include these Terje Raa travel stories. Don’t include them yourself, as including these links are your only contributions here, you seem to have a conflict of interest. Please wait for community input, thanks. --Van helsing 12:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, and in this case, you are Terje Raa . Unfortunately your conflict of interest editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote yourself and your articles. Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under Scribbleman  consist entirely of promoting Terje Raa / bootsnall.com / travellady.com and is considered  WP:Spam. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the all seem to be Terje Raa/bootsnall.com/travellady.com related only . Please do not continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your account are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links and for self-promotion.  Wikipedia is NOT a "repository of links" or a "vehicle for advertising" and persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to promote yourself, right?  --Hu12 13:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Native name?
What is the mean of "native name"? and why is in catalan the name of my city?. Alicante was founded by the arabs, not by the catalans, and the native name coulb be "Medina Laquant", but the origin of the city is Akra Leuka, greek, and the romans named the city Lucentum. Today the majority of the population speak spanish. Native name... what is it? --Hinzel 15:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

You are right. Alacant is another co-official name but it's not the native name. And nowadays the own city hall's website is alicante.es and in fact the name as comprised in the statute of the Generalitat Valenciana is Alicante/Alacant. But Alacant doesn't have to be deleted as it's the Valencian name, but it's better to put it in the "another name" section, because Alacant itself is not the native name of the city. Alicante is as well the most used name but Alacant is also acceptable. --TechnicianGB (talk) 03:21, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hiya. I have had my edit reverted several times for changing the name of the city from Alicante to Alacant. I would really like it to remain as Alacant as the city does not have a native name in English and the excuses that people are making for changing it back is apparently about habit and not fact, which is not what an encyclopedia should be about. I am using concrete fact. The name of the city is Alacant. The name that locals use is Alacant. And on top of this, people will still see the title as Alicante, so will know they are on the correct page. What I have done will teach them (the whole point of an encyclopedia); that Alacant is the city's name, whilst readers still understand they are on the correct page. Please leave it as I have changed it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vitojest1 (talk • contribs) 08:16, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * As per MOS:GEO, "A place should generally be referred to consistently by the same name as in the title of its article" If you want to litigate the longstanding title 'Alicante' and start a process for changing it, then you need to bring evidence against the current title, which, as per WP:NCUE "should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources". What you'd "really like" does not really conform to Wikipedia practices.--Asqueladd (talk) 10:31, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * What you "like", Vitojest1, is also trying to arbitrarily impose your preferred version of the article without seeking consensus from other editors. Editors aren't here to "teach" readers what they personally think about a subject. Carlstak (talk) 19:21, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * This user has used sockpuppets to create edit wars and revert wars on this page, can someone report him? This account is only a Catalan nationalist troll account as seen on the edit diffs, also trying to manipullate saying false stuff because with a quick Google search it's easy to prove everything he/she says is completely false. 84.125.70.43 (talk) 01:37, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * All of what you've said is completely false. Not only that you have used sockpuppets to edit this page as well as you created edit wars (I don't know why no one has reported you) what you say is completely false because 1. Virtually no one from Alicante calls the city "Alacant" (in fact the native name is Alicante and the official one is Alicante/Alacant but almost all local Alicante newapapers, political parties, associations etc only refer to it as Alicante) but also because almost all of English sources refer to the city as Alicante and it has various times more Google results than Alacant.
 * So please stop lying and creating conflicts in the Wikipedia. With your sockpuppet you even wrote a Catalan nationalist rant in one of the edit diffs you've made, and you're doing this over a Valencian city which is even more sad. Check my IP, I'm from Alicante. And no way on earth people from here call it any other way. And much less foreigner people (English, Germans, Dutch...) like 99,9% of them call it just Alicante, in fact most if not all travel agencies offer trips to Alicante unlike the false stuff you said that in England call it Alacant. I've never seen a bigger lie before. 84.125.70.43 (talk) 01:34, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Too long
The 'Recent History' section is absolutely too long and it seems to focus only on the recent developments regarding the city's port. Perhaps this matter is deserving of its own article, but I do not believe its place is here - since this is an article about Alicante, a short summary would do.Ilva (talk) 09:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Recent history section
and I appear to be having a bit of a content dispute on the information he/she added to the Recent history section of this article. He/she feels that it "constitutes important public information", while I feel that it verges on original research and soapboxing, putting undue weight on this particular subject. Please comment. A ecis Brievenbus 23:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It's certainly relevant information but it's too long and unbalances the article. I think it would be best to reduce it down and transfer the rest to a new 'history of alicante' article. Valenciano (talk) 08:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Wrong legend for Explanada de Espana
sorry but the image is not the Explanada de Alicante, this is the promenade (sea front) of Postiguet beach. The real Explanada de Espana in Alicante is located 200 meters on the other side of the hotel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.181.160.155 (talk) 17:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * True. Fixed.

Romanians = illegal aliens?
How can Romanians have illegal alien status in Spain when they are EU citizens (meaning they have a right to live anywhere in the EU) and they can even work legally there? Spain ended the temporary restrictions to its labour market as employees for Romanians on January 1, 2009.

174.6.67.115 (talk) 04:38, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Arbitrary changes made to climate section without consensus
The user should explain why he wants to make these changes on the talk page and clarify just what he means by "climate of the border Mediterranean climate", which is nonsensical in English. He has a limited command of the language, frequently inserts garbled text, deletes others' contributions without consensus, and seems to have an appetite for edit wars.

His zeal to classify Spanish cities on the Mediterranean coast as having a "subtropical" climate (that word being part of his user-name) leads to errors and a lack of clarity in writing. A Mediterranean climate is a variety of subtropical climate, as he says, so it is correct to describe it as such, without resorting to opaque statements like "climate of the border Mediterranean climate". I have amended the text again to make its meaning clear. I don't see how he can be unhappy with this, unless he insists on seeing the word "subtropical" unnecessarily capitalized and first in the word order, perhaps to complement the flashing GIF on his user page. Carlstak (talk) 01:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * First: Re: "Arbitrary changes made to climate section without consensus. The user should explain why he wants to make these changes on the talk page" - this is Wikipedia, free encyclopedia. It is not necessary to explain each edition, consensus is not necessary. I see that you have little knowledge of the principles of Wikipedia (again). How would anyone have to ask before each changing of Wikipedia, on Wikipedia will be a mess and haos.
 * Second: your text introduced errors, lack of knowledge of the subject (climatology) - you're not better.
 * Third: if someone makes grammatical errors, you correct grammatical errors. But you prefer to offend other users, do confusion etc. If you do not know - ask (for example, in this case - "what he means by "climate of the border Mediterranean climate"", ok, but on the discussion page of user... and peaceful. Subtropical-man (talk) 11:12, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It is difficult to interpret text written in pidgin English, which you frequently introduce to Wikipedia articles. Spare us the lectures, please, although I do appreciate the unintended humor of your saying that "Wikipedia will be a mess and chaos", which is a good description of some of those edits. Your talk page speaks for itself about your proclivities, just as my contributions speak for themselves. This is the appropriate place to address issues of material deleted without discussion and revisions explained in unintelligible English. Carlstak (talk) 01:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It has a semi-arid climate. Its rainfall is too low for the climate to be classed as humid subtropical or Mediterranean. Jim Michael (talk) 16:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

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Not as warm as Los Angeles.
Here on wiki Alicante winter temps are more like San Jose ca with Dec and Jan averaging in the low 60's,then Los Angeles that averages about 70f in Dec and Jan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:642:4101:4167:91EE:54B6:3476:22F6 (talk) 03:39, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Citrus Fruits
Hundreds of farmers grow citrus fruits such as oranges and lemons, and this significant regional effort should be documented.

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Weather Box
The Climate normals used in the Weather Box are really mixed up. Average temperatures and records highs are from the Alicant/Alacant airport while precipitation and sunshine hours are from the Alicante/Elche airport, record lows are from neither of them and should be considerably lower than they are represented.

The normals that should definitely be altered are the record lows. Ill probably edit that later, if anyone is against that please let me know and I also don't know what should be done with the mixing of climate tables. Average Portuguese Joe (talk) 20:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

The records are just fine, it says (1971-) so they start from 1971 and you can check these numbers in the official AEMET climatic guide. I've posted the link in your own talk page. --TechnicianGB (talk) 14:05, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Well in the official AEMET page Alicante/Alacant recorded -2.6 in January 1985 and the Alicante-Elche airport recorded the same value in January 2005 and were are those values? Those minimum extremes do not make any sense and AEMET has that 'valores extremos' page for some reason, so a reasonable thing to do is to just put the official AEMET values even if it's 1967-2020 it's just 4 years and that doesn't make any diference, hope you agree to what I'm trying to say. And here are the links to the extremes: http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/efemerides_extremos*?w=0&k=val&l=8019&datos=det&x=8019&m=1&v=todos and http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/efemerides_extremos*?w=0&k=val&l=8025&datos=det&x=8025&m=1&v=todos and since records in Alicante/Alacant are recorded since 1938 it's more plausible to go with the Alicante-Elche airport recorded since 1967.

They do make sense, but for another period of time. I have just checked the info and the actual extremes go for the period 1981-(nowadays) you can check it as well on the AEMET link I shown you above. Many pages (such as most Italian cities) have the extremes only based on the 30 year data when the averages were made instead of having the all-time records, but we could increase the term of the extremes, as long as it's official data. --TechnicianGB (talk) 16:33, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

I have updated the extremes with the ones from the period 1960-nowadays and the source is the same I mentioned before, the Spanish Climate Guide made by AEMET you can download the software and check the data. --TechnicianGB (talk) 17:05, 29 June 2020 (UTC)