Alfaz del Pi

The main industry is tourism municipality, not in vain, thanks to him that its population has been multiplied by 16 since the '60s, taking advantage of the tourist boom of the neighboring municipality of Benidorm. The village is about 3 km inland in the foothills of the Sierra Gelada, but the municipality has 4 km of coast, highlighting the Albir beach.

The township borders the terms of Altea, Benidorm and La Nucia. As much of the towns in the Alicante coast, the population had a slight tendency to migrate in the early and mid-twentieth century (toward larger nuclei population and north Africa), a trend reversed itself as the years 60, with big increases in population since then. Today, Alfaz del Pi is a multinational city where the population exceeds the Spanish foreign. And 55.2% of registered residents in 2007 were foreigners, mainly from Scandinavia, UK or Netherlands. Alfaz del Pi has the second largest colony of Norwegian citizens abroad (after London), at around two thousand residents registered.

The name comes from the Arabic word municipality alfaz, which means "fertile land", while the addition of pi is a Valenciana word meaning pine tree that was planted in the main square in 1786 by residents who wanted the independence of the town of Polop. This pine is over 220 years the symbol of the town.
Alfaz del Pi finally became independent in 1836.