2 Bedrooms - Apartment - Alicante - For..

This ground floor apartment has 2 good size bedrooms & family bathroom.The living room is bright with American style kitchen.& a good size utility room. Outside you have a large tiled patio area to enjoy the 3000 sun light hours we have on the Costa Blanca.La Siesta has its own local bus service which will take you to the local bars, restaurants & shops,Or if you want to go in to the town of Torrevieja it only 10 mins on the bus.Suma 110 euroSwimming pool (with a small daily charge)  / bowls club sort walk.Airport 45 minsGolf 10 min drive.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.