Elche is the third largest city in the Valencian community after Valencia and Alicante and with a population of 230,000 it is twentieth in terms of population in Spain.
Located on the Southern Costa Blanca, the nearest airport to Elche is Alicante Airport which is just seventeen kilometres or eleven miles away.
Elche isn’t so much a tourist resort although the city is very picturesque with over two hundred thousand palm trees, its monuments and museums. Elche is a place very much where people live and work owing to the large number of job opportunities in factories and manufacture.
