La Zenia Car Rental

22/06/2026

If you're on the coast this week and wondering why Alicante suddenly sounds like it's at war every afternoon — that's the Hogueras de San Juan, and it's one of the best things on the whole calendar.

From the 20th, the city fills with giant satirical sculptures — fogueres — built in wood and papier-mâché, some several storeys high, planted right in the middle of the streets. Every day at 2pm there's the mascletà, a rhythmic wall of gunpowder you feel in your chest rather than watch. Then on the night of the 23rd into the 24th comes the Nit de la Cremà: the whole lot is set on fire. Months of work, gone in one glorious evening. Very Spanish.

The catch is getting home afterwards. It all peaks late, the night trains back down the coast barely exist, and a taxi out of Alicante mid-fiesta is a contact sport. The people who enjoy it most are usually the ones who can drive up, leave the car on the edge of town, and head home calmly whenever they've had enough — which, conveniently, is the kind of evening a car parked outside the apartment is made for.

14/06/2026

Five things that catch people out the first time they drive in Spain. Roundabouts everywhere, taken with a confidence that's either reassuring or alarming. Petrol stations where someone still fills the tank for you. Villages where the "main road" is exactly one car wide and there is, of course, a truck coming the other way. Parking that becomes a kind of performance art in August. And distances that look tiny on the map and turn into a genuinely lovely two-hour coastal drive you don't actually mind.

You stop noticing all of it within a few days — roughly the same moment you stop wanting to hand the car back.

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09/06/2026

A thing that quietly catches out every newcomer: you wander into town at 2pm to run a couple of errands, and the whole place has simply… closed. Shutters down, streets empty, like someone called an evacuation nobody mentioned to you.

It's just the midday break — shops shut, everyone vanishes until the heat lets go around five. Mildly infuriating for about a week, then strangely sensible: do your sightseeing early, do nothing in particular at three, and that's basically how a Spanish summer is meant to run.

The nice part of having a car is you can play it that way on purpose — drive somewhere in the cool of the morning and be back before the shutters come down.

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03/06/2026

Three wild coves, one morning, almost nobody around.

Everyone finds La Zenia beach. Far fewer bother with what's just south of it — a string of small rocky coves where the water turns that faintly ridiculous shade of turquoise and you can actually hear yourself think. Cala Mosca, Cala Estaca, Cala Capitán: close enough to do all three before lunch, far enough off the bus routes that they stay quiet.

Go early, before the sun turns parking into a competitive sport. Bring water — there are no beach bars down there to talk you out of your money. And honestly that's the whole charm: a piece of coastline that still feels like you found it by accident.

Having a car parked outside is mostly what turns "I heard there are some nice coves somewhere" into an actual morning out.

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Barcelona

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Malaga

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Madrid's Plaza Major in bird's eye view

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Calpe

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Night view of the Faro de Fomentor, municipality of Pollensa on the island of Mallorca