Cosmopolitan Benidorm

25,760 are foreign nationals

It's official. Benidorm is one of Spain's most cosmopolitan cities with no less than 121 nationalities living within its boundaries.

The town hall has just completed a survey of its residents which shows that 35% of them, 25,760 people, are foreign nationals – a massive increase from seven years ago when the figure was 10%.

On the other side of the coin, the number of Spanish people living in Benidorm has actually decreased by almost 4000 in the last seven years!

1 September 2008 Stephen White.