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Where to Stay in Alcoy, Comunitat Valenciana
Alcoy, or Alcoi, is an industrial city on the Serpis in the Province of Alicante, best known for its Moros i Cristians festival.
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Where to stay in Alcoy
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Walking is enough to cover Alcoy. The streets around the Iglesia arciprestal de Santa María and the Església de Sant Jordi d'Alcoi hold the centre, and a room among them keeps the Museu Alcoià de la Festa, the Museu Arqueològic Camil Visedo and most of the eating inside a few minutes on foot. Festival week is different.
Anyone coming for Moros i Cristians should book a long way ahead and accept that the centre will be loud, because that noise is the entire reason for being there. The Serpis gives the alternative. Rooms toward the river sit away from the worst of the centre without putting anything out of range, and the Alcoi Walls still mark where the older limit of the city ran.
Cars matter here. Ground near IVAM CADA Alcoi is far kinder to a vehicle than the old streets, which suits anyone using Alcoy as a base for the Province of Alicante rather than as the destination itself. The Monasterio del Santo Sepulcro and the church of Our Lady of the Forsaken repay the detour from either.
Nothing here is a long walk from anything else.
About Alcoy
The festival runs the year.
What is Alcoy known for?
Moros i Cristians is what Alcoy is known for well beyond the Province of Alicante, and the Museu Alcoià de la Festa exists to hold the costumes, the music and the record of it between one staging and the next. Industry did the rest. Alcoy grew as a manufacturing town on the Serpis, and its museums reflect that mix, since the Firefighters Museum of Alcoy, the Museu Arqueològic Camil Visedo and IVAM CADA Alcoi have almost nothing in common with one another.
What are the main landmarks in Alcoy?
Iglesia arciprestal de Santa María heads the list. Església de Sant Jordi d'Alcoi, the Church de Sant Maure of Alcoy, the church of Our Lady of the Forsaken and the Monasterio del Santo Sepulcro carry the religious building, while the Alcoi Walls mark what the town once enclosed. Museums are unusually varied.
The Museu Alcoià de la Festa, the Museu Arqueològic Camil Visedo, the Firefighters Museum of Alcoy and IVAM CADA Alcoi cover a festival, an excavation, a fire service and contemporary art between them, and the Shelter of Cervantes belongs to none of those categories.
What is the history of Alcoy?
La Serreta came long before the streets. The Yacimiento arqueológico de La Serreta is excavated ground that predates anything standing in Alcoy, and El Salt is a second name the record keeps from the country around the city. No year attaches to Alcoy itself.
What the place has instead is a wall line and a river. The Alcoi Walls belong to the town that grew afterwards. Iglesia arciprestal de Santa María and the Església de Sant Jordi d'Alcoi date the centre, the Monasterio del Santo Sepulcro and the church of Our Lady of the Forsaken extend the same work, and the Church de Sant Maure of Alcoy, the Church of Saint Rose and the Church of the Savior carry it out into the parishes.
Then came the factories. Manufacturing along the Serpis reshaped Alcoy more thoroughly than any single building did, and the Church of Saint Joseph the Worker, the Church of Saint Juan de Ribera and the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus name the era that followed it. The Shelter of Cervantes stands apart from the churches entirely.
Moros i Cristians outlasted all of it, and the Museu Alcoià de la Festa now keeps the record between stagings.
Where is Alcoy?
The Serpis crosses the municipal boundary. Alcoy takes in about 130 square kilometres of the Province of Alicante, a great deal more ground than the built streets themselves ever occupy. El Salt lies out in that country.
The Comunitat Valenciana reaches the sea some distance off, and an inland town of workshops and mills is what grew here instead of a port.
What is the climate of Alcoy?
The coast is not close enough to help. Alcoy stands inland in the Province of Alicante, so the sea air that moderates the rest of the Comunitat Valenciana thins out well before it reaches the Serpis, which leaves the summer days hotter and the nights cooler than anywhere on the shore. Winter bites here.
That same inland position explains why the town was built where the water was.
How do you get to Alcoy?
Alcoy is an inland stop rather than a coastal one. Arrivals from the rest of the Province of Alicante come by road, and the approach ends among streets that were laid out for a manufacturing town instead of for through traffic. Parking is the first decision.
Once that is settled, the Iglesia arciprestal de Santa María, the Museu Alcoià de la Festa and IVAM CADA Alcoi are all within a walk.
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Updated August 2026