Santa Pola is a working fishing port that happens to have excellent beaches. The daily fish auction still runs, the 16th-century castle sits in the middle of town, and the salt flats behind it are a natural park where flamingos feed. For buyers the decisive detail is usually distance: Alicante–Elche airport is only 15 km away, the shortest transfer on the whole Costa Blanca.
Property in Santa Pola
Santa Pola keeps a real Spanish rhythm. Most residents live here year-round, the town centre has schools, health centres and shops that never close for the season, and the promenade fills with local families rather than tour groups. Beaches range from the long sandy Playa Levante to the quieter coves towards Cabo de Santa Pola.
Our listings here are apartments and penthouses between €238,000 and €365,000, in Centro and near Playa Levante, typically 500 m to 1 km from the sand. That price range buys a two- or three-bedroom home within walking distance of both the beach and daily services — a combination that costs considerably more further north.
The port has a daily ferry to the island of Tabarca, Spain’s first marine reserve. Alicante city is 20 minutes by road, and Elche with its palm groves about the same. For anyone who plans to fly in and out often, Santa Pola is hard to beat on convenience.