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Stunning city just six miles from Benidorm is like 'being on a different planet'
A stunning seaside city, just a stone's throw away from Benidorm, feels like it's worlds apart. When you think of an all-inclusive, sun-drenched, boozy package holiday in southern Spain ...
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Fascinating then-and-now photos show how Spain's Benidorm transformed from a tiny fishing village into one of Britain's favourite and brashest package holiday resorts
With the help of a postwar package holiday boom, and the opening of the El Altet Alicante Airport in 1967, Benidorm earned a place on the map for sun-seeking British tourists. In the 1970s ...