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Benidorm, on the Costa Blanca in Spain, was once a small fishing village. It is now a resort town with a seafront of high-rise apartment buildings and hotels.

Fishing port and tourist resort on the Mediterranean Costa Blanca, in Alicante province, eastern Spain; population (1991) 74,900. Large numbers of elderly people from northern Europe spend time here in the winter.



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Many of them outrival Prora by far--to mention only Benidorm, "the most efficient machine of mass tourism in Spain:" the fishermen's hamlet was made a mass resort during the Franco era and today takes pride in more than 60,000 beds in its dwelling machines.
Fordism, mass tourism and the third reich: the "Strength through Joy" ... by Spode, Hasso / Journal of Social History
Benidorm has no great reputation as a model of urban thinking.
Civic portal: a town much transformed by tourism is given a new heart ... by Benson, Mary / The Architectural Review
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