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Municipality in Region of Murcia, Spain

Alcantarilla

Alcantarilla is a town and municipality in southeastern Spain, in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.

Alcantarilla
Alcantarilla · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Alcantarilla is a town and municipality in southeastern Spain, in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. The town is only 7 km away from the capital of the region, the city of Murcia, and one of its peculiarities is that it is completely surrounded by "pedanías" of the municipality of Murcia like Sangonera La Seca, San Ginés, Nonduermas, Puebla de Soto, La Ñora, Javalí Viejo and Javalí Nuevo.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alcantarilla

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

    Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia is a private Catholic university with campuses in Murcia and Cartagena, Spain. Founded in 1996 by José Luis Mendoza Pérez, the university offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across disciplines including health sciences, engineering, business, social sciences, and sports science.

    3 km · private university in Murcia, Spain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Puente de la Pólvora

    El Puente de la Pólvora was a metallic bridge with stone abutments spanning the Segura River. The structure was completed with five stone arches on the left side of the bridge designed to span the river flood plain.

    800 m · bridge in Spain · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alcantarilla

Airports
Region of Murcia (RMU), 20 km · Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández (ALC), 67 km · Valencia (VLC), 180 km
  • Alicante → Alcantarilla
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €9–12
  • Valencia → Alcantarilla
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · $4.5–6
  • Ibiza (Eivissa) → Alcantarilla
    255 km · quickest by road, 7h 4m · €36–50
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alcantarilla

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alcantarilla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{listing | type = go | name = Región de Murcia International Airport | alt http://www.aena.es/es/aeropuerto-region-murcia/index.html | email | lat = 37.803639 | long = -1.124111 | directions = on the A30 Highway between the villages of Corvera, Los Martínez del Puerto, and Valladolises, Murcia | phone | hours | wikidata = Q3015351 | lastedit = 2025-10-08 | content = The airport is served by some low cost and charter airlines.

From Wikivoyage: Murcia (city), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    478 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    806 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,141 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,160 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,414 km

If you know how people move in Alcantarilla – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alcantarilla

Alcantarilla is 7 km from Murcia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.