TRAM d'Alacant

Light rail · Alicante · Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV)

6 lines · 70 stations · 29 interchanges

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Quick facts

Operator
FGV runs TRAM d'Alacant, the Alicante light-rail/tram-train network.
Payment
Use the station machines/card products and pay attention to zones, the coast is useful because the fare system is built for repeated short hops.
Stored-value cardZonal fare
Coast line
L1/L3 are the Alicante-to-beach lines to know, L9 is the longer scenic rail layer from Benidorm toward Denia.
Network type
A hybrid tram/light-rail/coastal railway that makes Alicante work without a rental car.
Light railTram-trainBeach access

Mike’s notes

Alicante is much more useful with the tram in your head. It turns the city from a one-beach stop into a coastal base: old town in the morning, a northern beach after lunch, and no rental car required.

For visitors, the practical lines are L1/L3 toward El Campello, San Juan, and the northern beaches, plus L9 if the trip continues past Benidorm toward the Denia side. I broke the stop-by-stop beach logic out in the Alicante tram stops guide.

The important thing is to think in zones and time, not in "metro" terms. This is a coast railway with tram behavior in the city. It is exactly the kind of infrastructure that lets a smaller Mediterranean city punch above its weight as a base.

Short history

  1. 2000s

    Modern tram rebuild

    Alicante's old rail corridor is remade into the modern TRAM d'Alacant, turning the coast north of the city into a no-car beach string.

  2. Today

    A coastal base tool

    The system is less about a city metro and more about making Alicante, San Juan, El Campello, Benidorm, and the northern coast behave like connected choices.

Sources and references (2)
  1. TRAM d'Alacant
  2. Alicante tram stops