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Information on other towns in the Costa Blanca
Alicante Region
Alicante Population: 276886 By road, boat or plane. Any means of transport is suitable to get to this city called “City of light”. With more than 3,000 years of history, patent in the remains left by different civilizations, the capital of the Costa Blanca offers the most varied landscapes and the most enviable contrasts. A cultural city with wide parks, gardens and a city centre with lots of businesses, Alicante also enjoys night-life. Furthermore, its fine sand beaches count with multiple services. And it goes on impoving! Alicante keeps up its efforts in order to increase the number of projects held and the ilusion to maintain itself, as always, as a tourist destination par excellence.
Beniarrés Population 1464 Height: 326 m Beniarrés is a lively medium-sized village located in Comtat, on the border of the province of Valencia. Beniarrés' origins are Moorish and it was conquered by Jaime I and then donated to one of the orders that inherited the property of the Templars, the Montesa Order, whose seat was located in the nearby castle of Perputxent. The economic activity of the village's 1,464 inhabitants is split between agriculture and the industry provided by the neighbouring cities of Cocentaina and Muro de Alcoy.
Cocentaina Population: 10468 Height: 434 m Cocentaina, capital of the Region of ELComptat is a town comprising 52 square kilometres, located near the Serra Mariola mountains Natural Park. Inhabited since the prehistoric era, it was not until Muslim times that it became an important administrative region. There are irrigated lands at the basin of the Serpis river, semi-arid crops, olive and almond trees mainly. The economy is driven by the textile industry and the service sectors. In the town, buildings such as the Palace, the castle or the old walls are maintained.
Denia Population: 41617 Twenty kilometres of coastline, rocky coves and big extensions of sand, solitary beaches and beaches with both sports and playful activities. Dénia has a wonderful climate, whilst its landscape, is an added plus to its blue waters. The nature reserve of el Montgó, rising up, as Blasco Ibáñez said, like “a giant hand”, has served as a watchtower for a littoral which has been inhabited for over 4.000 years. Nevertheless, this out-standing enclave of the Costa Blanca has more: Its patrimony gives a good account of the historical brilliance of what it was once protagonist to, and its gradual conversion into a modern city, in which leisure occupies an out-standing position.
Elche Population: 198190 Height: 86m The flat plains of Vinalopó have one exceptional city. A select group exists in the world, formed by cities that hold more than one recognised Treasure to humanity. Elx is part of this collective. However, the Palmeral and the Misteri, in all their greatness, beauty and originality, don’t stand alone. The city accompanies its treasures, exalting its’ two thousand year history, combining modernity with dynamism. Ilicitanos (Elx inhabitants) conserve the natural coastline, which closes an imaginary circle that makes up the territory.
Santa Pola Population: 22253 Height: 6m The first settlers inhabited the “Cueva de las Arañas” (the cave of spiders) in the third and fourth Millennium BC. In the first century AC., with the arrival of the Romans, the area became known as “Portus Illicitanus”, developing into one of the key ports for maritime commerce. From this period there are many archaeological remains. After the fall of the Roman Empire, and during the medieval era the area suffered a fall into general decline, largely due to the plundering of Pirates. This motivated the building, in the XVI century, of the Castle-Fortress and the “Torres Vigía” (vigilance towers). From the XVIII century onwards the town was concentrated around the Castle, the nucleus from which the development of the settlement evolved. Nowadays, Santa Pola is a tourist municipality with the most important fishing fleet in the Spanish Mediterranean.
Valencia Region Agullent Population: 1234 Height:321m
Aielo de Malferit Population:4402 Height:282m
Albaida Population: 5828 Height: 315m Its white lands. Its doors made up of mountains. A place equidistant to Valencia and Alicante. Located between the port with the same name and Sierra de Benicadell. “All roads lead to Albaida”, says the proverb. Albaida keeps, encloses and preserves remains of the passing of history in all its corners. As a prosperous city, civilisation after civilisation settled on its lands which always provided material for progress. However, the tradition lasts and in a privileged position is the universal Segrelles, in whose watercolours the image of the place which sheltered kings, nobles and adventurers will be kept.
Bocairent Population: 4508 Height: 660m The Muslims called the city Bekirén, because of the dominant architectural style in the town which used the form of beehives. Today Bocairent continues to project a peculiar image, its streets are seeped in centuries of history, the inhabitants have a commendable respect for their traditions and it is located in an enviable environment, with the Sierra Mariola as its principal neighbour. A sculpture welcomes visitors to the locality, an image of a man with a blanket over his shoulders, a tradition still held by the people of Bekirén. Steep slopes, abundant vegetation, and the sources of two rivers, the Vinalopó and the Clariano, have marked the structure of the towns’ nucleus, which has been moulded respecting the natural environment. Many of the houses and some of its monuments, even modern ones, are excavated from the surrounding rock.
Gandia Population: 69289 Height: 22m Enveloped in a mountainous belt with the Mediterranean at its feet, Gandia transports travellers to past epochs with its majestic architectural setting. The traces of distant cultures have left a rich cultural and historical inheritance that is perceived throughout the population, testimony of this meant that the town was named as a “court villa” a title awarded during the XV century thanks to Juan de Borja, the second Duke of Gandia. The city maintains, besides a wide cultural offering, a formidable coastal tourist industry with spacious beaches composed of fine sand as its principal attraction. Beaches that, during the summer months, enjoy a typically Mediterranean climate, with agreeable temperatures that provide the best conditions in which to enjoy all the resources of the locality.
Llutxent Population:2534 Height:284m L’Olleria Population: 7911 Height:226m
Miramar Population: 1232 Height: 20m On the fertile La Safor plain, surrounded by orange groves, Miramar offers the tranquility of a town that enjoys all the virtues of the Mediterranean Sea. The agreeable character of the municipality is maintained with the sea, bordered with agricultural greenery, its open beach of fine sand, and a promenade adorned with palm trees.
Montaverner Population: 1798 Height:217m
Oliva Population: 23591 Height: 25m The symbols of the standard of the Valencian Community, the Mediterranean and citrus fruits, are united in Oliva, where nature has provided other attractions besides. Beaches of fine golden sand, surrounded by naturally formed sand dunes that separate orange groves from the sea, are found close to a municipality in which the streets preserve vestiges of its history and examples of its customs. The docile nature of the climate grants the virtue of being a haven for tourists.
Pinet Population:192 Height:444m Salem Population:482 Height:302m Valencia Population: 739014 Height: 15m Valencia can be a city of clichés: the light, the moon, the gun-powder, the paella, the flowers, the fallas... they are keys which attempt to explain what words cannot tell. It is necessary to visit and get to know Valencia to verify that centenary traditions live together with modernity; that sea and city are compatible; that the green colour of farms can be kept together with a modern urban scheme; that Valencia is unique at night and during the day. But the capital of the river Turia is more than that. In addition to the innumerable attractions which the city has had for years, now there is a series of showy infrastructures such as the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences) and the Museo Príncipe Felipe (Prince Philip Museum) which, as they are located in this environment, are linked to culture. Valencia has put the icing on the cake, although it will not have a rest and will go on decorating its succulent presentation.
Xativa Population: 25478 Height: 115m Strategically placed on the gentle slope of the Sierra del Castillo, surrounded by natural elements that furnish the landscape with an indescribable beauty. The Vía Augusta, once passed close to the municipality, and reveals the important position held by the municipality long ago in Roman times, preserved today on its own merits having been declared a historical - artistic site. Home to the painter José Ribera, The Españoleto and two Popes from the Borja dynasty, Xátiva’s importance has stood out over centuries. In the XI century Europe's first paper mill was installed in the city – paper made from straw and rice, today is still known as "Xativi" paper. From the middle of the XIII century to the beginning of the XVIII century it was the second city in terms of political importance and population in the kingdom of Valencia. As with all important and coveted cities, Xátiva also had a dark era with the arrival of the Borbone family with Philip V, after winning at the battle of Almansa, he ordered the expulsion of the "setabenses" and to burn the city. In recollection of this insult, the village preserves a portrait of the monarch hung upside down in the l'Almodí museum.
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