Denia and surroundings

Dénia, capital of the region of the Marina Alta, offers plenty of options for visitors who want to escape to the surrounding towns for day trips. They are close and charming places that allow you to enjoy both the Mediterranean coast and the mountains of the interior of the region, with unexpected landscapes and unforgettable postcards.

Xàbia

On the other side of the Montgó is the neighboring town of Jávea or Xàbia, with about 33.000 inhabitants that increase considerably in the summer to be one of the most attractive municipalities for national and international tourism era.

The fastest and most beautiful way to access Xàbia from Dénia is the Les Planes road, which runs through the Montgo. The views from the top of the road are spectacular, leaving the coast of Dénia at our feet as we go up and opening up to the bay of Xàbia when we go down towards its entrance. On this road there is also access to Cabo de San Antonio, and the old mills of Xàbia.

Undoubtedly the greatest attraction of Xàbia are its beaches, all types. From the sand of the very busy El Arenal, to the tranquility of coves such as El Ambolo or La Granadella. The Javanese coast offers many services for tourists and visitors. It has a multitude of restaurants, shops with beach items, bars or ice cream parlors.

Xàbia stands out as one of the towns with more parties in Spain. The third Sunday of Lent the rise of Jesus the Nazarene is celebrated to the chapel of St. Bartholomew, where he is revered until May 3.

In June it is time to celebrate the San Juan's bonfires, with a plantà of monuments around the town and the celebration of the Nit dels focs, recently declared a Festival of Local Tourist Interest.

The third week of July festivities are held Moors and Christians in the harbor area, where many revelers gather for parades and processions. Also in July it is celebrated the Living Chess, a must for javienses where every year a different story depicted. It has been declared of National Tourist Interest and is in the process the same statement at international level.

The end of summer is marked by the Loreto or Duanes festivities, which run from the last week of August to September 8. They are famous for their Bous a la Mar and the numerous peñas that animate the streets during those days.

But Xàbia is not just beaches and parties, as it has a historical town with much to see. The charm of the town is designated by all the streets, but especially in the plaza of the Church of St. Bartholomew, a sixteenth century building whose bell tower is visible from all the historical district.
In the port we find the Church of Our Lady of Loreto, a church of new construction that simulates a keel boat built on an ancient church also the sixteenth century.

Ondara

With about 7.000 inhabitants, Ondara has experienced very important in recent decades population growth. It is 7 kilometers from Denia and is accessible by road. Ondara is the entrance and exit of the motorway AP-7.

In the municipality, buildings such as the Clock Tower stand out, the only vestige of the old castle Ondara Muslim, the Town Hall, built in the middle of the XNUMXth century, the Parish Church or the Convent.

But undoubtedly the most characteristic of Ondara and its inhabitants boast is the Jewel Levantina, its bullring. It was built in the early twentieth century and demolished in the Civil War, but 1957 was rebuilt and today is one of the most important tourist attractions of the town.

La Vall de Laguar

Inside the region is the Vall de Laguar, a set of three cores, Benimaurell, Campell, Fleix and Fontilles, forming the same municipality.

La Vall de Laguar extends over an altitude of 500 meters between the two hills that form the valley. On one side is the Barranc de l'Infern and other Serra del Cavall Verd.

Its most important monuments include the Castillo de la Vall de Laguar, at the entrance of the valley, the tower Casota, construction of military type of XII-XIII centuries or Sanatorium San Francisco de Borja de Fontilles, created in early S.XX for leprosy patients.

Besides the monuments, La Vall de Laguar has numerous natural sources such as Source of Camusot, Fountain Dornajos, Ice Fountain, Fountain Isber, Fuente del Penon, Fuente del Reinós, source Fontilles and numerous hiking trails.

South Marina Alta region

The coast of Marina Alta leaves us other wonders such as Altea, Calpe, Teulada-Moraira or Benissa, towns located south of Denia to which can be accessed by both the AP-7 motorway and the national road.

In Calpe you can not miss Ifach, declared Natural Park in 1987 with a height of more than 300 meters. Between the Rock and the city are the Baths of the Queen, well-preserved remains of an ancient Roman villa.

Altea is essential to enjoy the old town, with streets that exude a charm and a light that hardly find elsewhere. Altea is blue and white town, and welcomes every year many tourists from all over the world.

Teulada-Moraira will surprise us by the Church of Santa Catalina, Renaissance style, the chapel of La Divina Pastora or Chamber of Jurats i Justícies (S.XVII).

Benissa has known as the Cathedral of the Marina Alta, the Church of the Purissima Xiqueta, employer of the town. It is an unusually large church neo-Gothic style located in the heart of Benissa.

Around Dénia well worth a trip to see the wonders of the Marina Alta region, not to mention how close they are nuclei like Oliva, Gandia and Benidorm.