Sylvia Plath and Hughes spent a more than a month in Benidorm on honeymoon during the Summer of 1956. Plath loved to walk round the markets and sit by the fishing harbour: "Every evening at dusk the lights of the sardine boats dip and shine out at sea like floating stars".
Before the fifties,Benidorm was a fishermen village. Today is one of the most traditional sun and sand tourist destinations of the Mediterranean coast of Spain. However; the quality of its tourism is one the keys on his actual popularity.