Costa Blanca Walks Vol 1 West

Guidebook covers walking in Spain's Costa Blanca area north and west of Benidorm, and includes the Costa Blanca Mountain Way and the Gallinera Way. Sierra Aitana/Campana/Ponoch, Aitana Way, Val de Arc, Sierra Heldada and Sierras de Cortina, Sierra Serrella/Aixorta, Val de Algar, Val de Gallinera, north-west sierras and western sierras.

Costa Blanca Walks Vol 1 West

Author

Bob Stansfield

Cover

Paperback - Laminated

Edition

Second

ISBN_13

9781852843304

Availability

Reprinted

Price

£12.00

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Location Map (1)
Overview Maps (1)
Sample Routes (1)

Seasons

Year round. 300 sunny days per year, although the height of summer may be a bit too hot for many.

Centres

Access via Valencia and Alicante. Benidorm, Altea and Calpe on the coast have accommodation but are best left behind.

Difficulty

True mountains, although only up to 1500m. Rocky, pinnacled and steep. Treat as real mountain walking.

Must See

Real Spain, just a few minutes from the coast. Puig Campana and the longer treks.

Recommended Guidebooks In English
Michelin Guide to Spain
Berlitz Guide to the Costa Blanca
Guide to Costa Blanca (Alicante Tourist Board)
Alicante & Costa Blanca Guide (ANAY Touring Publications)

Recommended Rock Climbing Guides
Rock Climbing Guide to the Peñon d’Ifach by Juan Antonio Andres Martinez (published by the author in Spanish, English, French and German): lavishly illustrated in colour, but no written descriptions of the routes.

Costa Blanca Climbs by Chris Craggs (Cicerone Press): excellent guidebook in the traditional English style and gradings.

Topo guides to one of the most popular rock climbing locations in the area, Sella, can be purchased at the bar in the village square, or up the valley at a climbers’ refuge below the crags.

Geology
The Geological Field Guide to the Costa Blanca by C.B. Moseley (Geologists’ Association)

Ornithology
Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe by Bertel Bruun (Country Life)

Botany
Flowers of South-West Europe by Oleg Polunin and B.G. Smythes (Oxford)
Flowers of the Mediterranean by Oleg Polunin and Anthony Huxley (Chatto and Windus)
Wild flowers of Spain (3 booklets) by Clive Innes (Cockatrice)
Wild flowers of Southern Spain by Betty Molesworth Allen (Mirador Books, Malaga, 1993): covers Andalucia but applicable to Costa Blanca area.

Wildlife
Wildlife in Spain by John Measures (Crowood Press)

General Reading
Iberia by James Michener (Fawcett)
Spain by Jan Morris (Penguin)
As I walked out one Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (Penguin)
The Spaniards by John Hooper (Penguin)
The Spaniard and the Seven Deadly Sins by Fernando Diaz Plaja (Pan)
Culture Shock Spain by Marie L. Grafe (Kupera)
Spain by Dominique Aubler and Manuel Tunon de la Lara (Vista Books Longmans)
Marching Spain by V.S. Prichett (Hogarth Press)
The Face of Spain by Gerald Brenan (Penguin)
Lookout Magazine: publishes handy books on many topics relating to living in Spain, from cooking to the law, but most of the guidebooks relate to Andalucia.
The Story of Spain by Mark Williams: covers the whole country.