Construction on Postiguet Breakwater Jeopardises Alicante's Hogueras Fireworks Competition

The curse has fallen in 2025 on the Alicante Hogueras fireworks competition. After the withdrawal of a pyrotechnic company due to scheduling issues, as justified, the search for an alternative location is underway 'in extremis' a month and a half before the event.

The Alicante City Council announced this Tuesday that it is engaged in negotiations for a new site to hold the displays due to the Government's construction to expand the Postiguet breakwater.

These works, carried out in the Cocó area where the devices are set up, will continue until July, forcing the search for alternatives for the displays scheduled from June 25 to 29 at the final stretch of this Alicante beach.

The Councillor for Festivities, Cristina Cutanda, criticised the Provincial Coastal Service in Alicante for not communicating the intentions to carry out these works during the concession period of the area for the Hogueras fireworks displays.

In this regard, the councillor and spokesperson for the municipal government team recalled that the City Council has authorisation for this purpose for four years, but at the time of its tender, no information was provided about the works on the breakwater.

Thus, the City Council and the Festivities department continue to search for a new location that will definitively settle the festive calendar of the Alicante Hogueras.

For now, no location has been finalised, Cutanda highlighted, but the fireworks will be launched from a coastal area and in front of the Alicante coastline. It is still unknown whether it will be at a different section of the same Postiguet or another point in the city.

Despite currently lacking a space to hold the Hogueras and San Pedro fireworks competition, the fireworks calendar continues without new changes.

The last change occurred last February when the Ferrández pyrotechnic company from Redován declined the display due to scheduling reasons. The City Council convened the jury to select another company to fill the gap.

Thus, they decided to assign this display to the Hermanos Ferrández pyrotechnic company from Beniel in place of those from Redován, closing a calendar that poses new headaches due to the works at Cocó.