Events, local discoveries and useful stories for your time here.
Elche sits inland from the Costa Blanca, a working Valencian city famous for one thing above all: its palm groves. The Palmeral, a vast forest of date palms planted in Moorish times, wraps around the city and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, best seen on a slow walk through the Huerto del Cura. It's a real, lived-in place — a shoe-making town with a strong cultural streak rather than a tourist resort.
The arts calendar carries the year here. The Elx Jazz Festival is a long-running fixture, and there's a steady run of concerts and theatre — a sitar recital by Sazed Ul Alam, the Óscar Martín young theatre showcase, and open-air sets from The Jumpers Trio. Here's what's on while you're in town.
16Jun
Local school and youth theatre groups stage their productions at Elche's Gran Teatro, including classics such as Blood W
1Jul
Three open-air evenings of flamenco, jazz and Latin jazz in the leafy Rotonda of the Municipal Park. The 2026 line-up in
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