Valencia and Alicante also speak Catalan dialects called Valenciano and Alicantino. The Ibicenco of the North in villages such as San Mateu or Santa Agnes is noticeably different to the Ibicenco of La ...
A visit to the spectacular Mercado Central, a brick-built food cathedral dating from 1922, was a useful primer in alicantino ingredients like dry-cured tuna mojama, succulent red prawns from the ...