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Sant Joan d'Alacant

Sant Joan d'Alacant, San Juan de Alicante in Spanish, is a town of about 24,000 people in the metropolitan area of Alicante and Elche. Its centre lies eight kilometres from the middle of Alicante. It stands in the Campo de Alicante comarca, at the geographic heart of the traditional Huerta de Alicante. The land is almost flat, falling from 100 metres at the border with Mutxamel to 20 metres near the coast, with the town itself at 40 metres. The climate is mild, with about 180 clear days a year, highs of 17 °C in January and about 32 °C in August. Remains of painted Iberian pottery and water works found in 2016 date settlement back to the 4th century BC. The Church of San Juan Bautista rises over an earlier church and the main mosque from before 1315, and was for centuries the mother parish of the whole Huerta. Its Baroque chapel of the Santísimo Cristo de la Paz dates from 1742, and two bell towers with blue glazed tiles crown the main façade. The Health Sciences campus of Miguel Hernández University and the San Juan University Hospital are both here. The A-70 ring road and the N-332 connect it with Alicante, El Campello and Mutxamel.