Costas Become Home ; Whitewashed Streets, Shady Lemon Groves and an Azure Sky Have Attracted Nearly a Million Britons to Settle On the Costa Blanca, Says David Spittles

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INLAND from the package holiday coastal nightmare of Benidorm on the Costa Blanca you will discover some of the prettiest countryside in Spain - hillsides covered with orange and lemon groves and charming medieval villages with narrow whitewashed streets.

Adventurous Britons are beginning to search out affordable second homes in the region, but the coast is still where most people want to be. In Alicante alone, property worth Pounds 3.5 billion changed hands last year - and that was just among UK expatriates, according to the British Embassy in Spain.

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Costas Become Home ; Whitewashed Streets, Shady Lemon Groves and an Azure Sky Have Attracted Nearly a Million Britons to Settle On the Costa Blanca, Says David Spittles

This strip of Spain was the first to be colonised by British homebuyers in the 1960s. Parts of it have been ravaged by overdevelopment, but a surprising amo...

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