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
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.
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.