2 Bedrooms - Apartment - Alicante - For..

This furnished 2 bedroom ground floor apartment is within walking distance to the bars, shops and the great local beaches of Torrevieja. The property has a good size living area, kitchen and an outside utility area. 2 good sized bedrooms & a family bathroom. The terrace is South-West facing and there is a great communal pool. This apartment would make a great holiday home or rental. The Communal fees for this apartment are approximately 350.00€ per year and the Suma (house tax) is approximately 175.00€.Call today to arrange an appointment! don't miss out on this great opportunity!Why chose Tor­re­vieja, here is a little his­tory - Un­til 1802, Tor­re­vieja ex­is­ted only as an an­cient guard tower, which gave the town its name (Torre Vieja which means Old Tower) and some la­bour­ers' cot­tages. But in 1803, Charles IV au­thor­ized the move­ment of the salt pro­duc­tion of­fices from La Mata to the town it­self and al­lowed the con­struc­tion of dwell­ings there. In 1829, the town was totally des­troyed by an earth­quake, but the basins were soon re­con­struc­ted and re-opened. In 1931, Alf­onso XIII gave Tor­re­vieja city status by spe­cial grant. Dur­ing this period, there was also a grow­ing mar­ket for flax, hemp and cot­ton. In the 19th cen­tury, the salt was mainly shipped from the town by Swedish and Dutch ships. At the time, there was only lim­ited de­mand from other re­gions of Spain, mainly Galicia and to a lesser ex­tent, Valen­cia. Al­though by the dawn of the 20th cen­tury, a quarter of all the salt har­ves­ted from the la­goon in Tor­re­vieja was sold in Spain it­self, and the rest ex­por­ted was to for­eign mar­kets. Today, it is still an im­port­ant in­dustry in Tor­re­vieja and a ma­jor em­ployer. You can visit the Mu­seum of Sea and Salt. In re­cent years, the local eco­nomy has hugely ex­pan­ded due to the tour­ist in­dustry. This in­cludes both a strong con­tin­gent of Brit­ish, Ir­ish, Ger­mans and Scand­inavi­ans, many of whom live there all the year round, and Span­ish people who have a second home in the city.