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 Car Hire & Driving in Calpe, SpainWelcome to Calpe Car Hire, Spain.Calpe Car HireSituated at the northern end of the Costa Blanca, in the Valencia and Murcia region to the east coast of Spain, is the resort of Calpe where you can pick up a car hire to explore the area. The northern Costa Blanca is dominated by a huge, natural feature that you can see in your hire car from Calpe, the Penyal d’Ifach, a limestone crag that juts into the sea and towers above the resort of Caple. If you leave your hire car in Calpe it can be climbed from the visitor’s centre at its base for tremendous views across Calpe and the Costa Blanca and rare plants and birds. A rocky gorge separates Calpe to the resort of Altea which lies just to the south of Calpe in your hire car. Altea is an upmarket town with a picturesque jumble of white houses, narrow streets and steps which are worth exploring in your hire car from Calpe. To the south of Calpe in your hire car lies the rest of the Costa Blanca offering you such resorts as Benidorm and Alicante to explore in your hire car. If you want to find out more of what you can see and do on a trip from Calpe to Benidorm and Alicante on the Costa Blanca in your hire car, visit our Benidorm Car Hire and Alicante Car Hire links. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Valencia and Murcia region Car HireTogether, these two regions of Spain are often known as the Levant. Valencia and Murcia between them enjoy more than half of Spain’s eastern coastline, stretching from Catalonia to Almeria, providing you with plenty of scope for exploring in your hire car. The 9,000 square miles (23,300sq km) of the Communidad Valencia is split into three provinces that you can explore in your hire car: Valencia, Castellon and Alicante. This region approximately follows the boundaries of the old Kingdom od Valencia, which was captured from the Muslims in the 13th century by an army of Catalans, who left their language in Valencia in the form of the ‘valenciano’ dialect. Valencia, according to the ‘paso doble’ that has become the Valencia regions unofficial anthem, ‘is the land of flowers, light and love’, and you can see if you agree while touring the Valencia region in your hire car. Thanks to an equable Mediterranean climate, all good things seem in abundance in the Valencia region. Sunshine saturates Valencia’s many attractive beaches that you can visit in your hire car, and warm temperatures make for an active outdoor life day and night, almost all year round, so it does not matter when you visit the Valencia region in your hire car. Covering just 4,369 square miles (11,317sq km), Murcia is one of Spain’s smallest comunidades. Compaired with its larger neighbours, Andalusia and the Comunidad Vanlenciana, Murcia is little known but it has superlatives too, as you can discover in your hire car while touring the Murcia region of Spain.
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