Alicante lies in the area known as Levante (meaning the East in Castellano) which combines the provinces of Valencia and Murcia and is an incogruous mix of the ancient and the modern,of beauty and beastliness. It borders with the provinces of Murcia from the southwest, with Albacete from the west, Valencia from the north and the Mediterranean Sea from the east.The province of Alicante is situated in the southeastern part of the administrative Land of Valencia, and is almost contiguous with (or to?)another Spanish Land—Murcia . The rich huerta of Valencia is one of the most fertile regions of europe: dense in orange and lemon groves, date palm plantations, and rice fields still irrigated by systems devised by the Moors. It contrasts starkly with the severe, mountinuous climate of the Murcia province which is considered one of the driest territories in Europe. What is more Alicante‘s unique location between the sea and the mountains gives the city a special kind of enrupturing (zmien slowo na synonim)beauty. One of the primary function this location gives is the deeply-rooted seaport role thanks to which „Alicante looks uninterruptedly to the Mediterranean“ as Juan Gil-Albert once remarked.

The province of Alicante is a predominantly flat area (mainly the southern part of the province called Vega Baja del Segura), however the peaks of the Subbaetic Mountain Range situated in the northern part of the province reach up to almost 1600 meters above the sea level. The highest of them are: Aitana (1558 m), Puig Campana (1,410 m) and Moncabrer (1,389 m).

The coast of Costa Blanca within the Alicante province spread from Cabo de la Nao in the north and run south almost reaching Mar Menor which predominantly lies in the Land of Murcia. The few major rivers are Vnalopo, Serpis and Segura, most rivers being seasonal and dependent on the rainfalls (the so called ramblas). Alicante also preserves a few key RAMSAR sites (the Ramsar lists wetlands and marshlands around the world and recognizing their environmental importance protects them under the Ramsar Convention )such as the saline marchlands and wetlands of El Fondo and salt evaporation ponds in Torrevieja and Santa Pola which were formerly wetlands.

The climate for a province of only 5.863 km² is suprisingly diverse. One can identify three major climatic zones within the area:

• the majority of the province lies in the Semiradic climate zone which streches from Vila Joiosa and goes along the coast incorporating the major cities in the region- Alicante, Torrevieja, Orihuela and Elx. The summers are long hot and dry and the winters mild and sunny. Additionaly the rainfalls are pretty scarse (normally below 300mm per year) and the waters around Costa Blanca are said to be the warmest in the country (with the avarage temperature of 29C in August!!!) which all makes it a perfect holliday destination.
• Around Cabo de la Nao and the northern parts of Alicante one can find the proper Mediterrenanean climate. The precipitation in this area is an average four times the one of the semiarid South, with this big precipitation gap occurring in a matter of just 100 kms.
• The Alicante province also has a mostly dry Mediterranean to continental climate transition zone. These are the innermost part of the Province (for example Villena) and some closer to the sea but at a higher elevation (for example Alcoy). Here winters are cool to cold and a few days of snow are not unusual; summers are mild to hot and rains at about 500 mm average and slightly more evenly distributed through the year than in the previous mentioned areas.