How can you say that Alicante is run down? What are you smoking? Putin has a mansion in a nearby neighbourhood worth millions and goes there regularly, huge companies have large facilities in Alicante along with the best comsetic surgery clinics in the world. A very rich and developed area in Europe full of northerners, please don't talk about things you don't know or understand. It's incredible how spoiled some people can be in Europe, you have no idea buddy.