Map of Levante

Levante ( literally, "where the sun rises") is Eastern Spain, the Spanish mainland coastal Mediterranean region between the Sistema Iberíca series of mountain ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Almeria. Its climate is, logically, Mediterranean, typically so in the north, and semi-arid Mediterranean in the south, where rainfall is scarce and the process of desertification is far advanced. Administratively, it means the Murcia region in the south and the Comunidad Valenciana, the Valencia region. The provinces in the Valencia region are, from north to south, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante. The Levante's most important cities are Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca in that province, and the capitals of the Valencian provinces but, in the summer, resort towns like Benidorm and Gandia swell with visitors. Indeed, although the Levante's traditional economy is based on farming, it has long been outstripped by tourism, and all this coastline - Castellon's Costa del Azahar, the Costa de Valencia, Alicante's Costa Blanca and Murcia's Mar Menor and Costa Cálida - is popular with summer visitors.

This map of Eastern Spain comes courtesy of those nice young people over at Google, bless their little cotton socks. It will centre where you double click, you can pan over it using the arrows (or dragging the rectangle in the overview map in the corner), and you can zoom in and out using the '+' and '-' buttons. Neat, ain't it? I have pre-selected the "Hybrid" view, just because I happen to like the look of it — if you are looking for a road map or a street map, just click "Map" (or "Mapa" or whatever it says in your language). Or select the "Satellite" view to remove the place names and other map elements.

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