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The lonely death of one of the most imposing houses in Dénia

14 September 2021 - 16: 42

The image is shocking. Decades of history turned to nothing. A symbol disappears Les Rotes, in front of which hundreds of people passed every day this summer to enjoy a day at Punta Negra. The Chermes house, as it was known locally, is already just a skeleton.

The construction dates from 1950. It was an imposing villa that stood out for its high central tower, which is now the only thing left standing, resisting the demolition (the workers have had to resort to more machinery). This ostentatious building also has one of the largest plots of land in Les Rotes (14.400 square meters), next to the one that had been for sale for years, very deteriorated due to lack of care.

The current catalog of protected buildings of the Dénia City Council left out, despite its obvious great architectural value, this construction that now, due to lack of protection, has fallen into the hands of the promoters.

The house is no longer part of the usual landscape of Les Rotes after consenting to the segregation of the land into 12 plots that will end up becoming luxury homes. In this way, what will be protected is the architectural trend that is increasingly impersonal and more aware of the Les Rotes business.

Comments
  1. pepet del garrotet says:

    we have to destroy all the old and let the speculators continue to forage, it gives me a lot of sadness to see part of my life disappear

  2. paquita ruiz says:

    In the 52 years that my family and I have been coming to Denia, I have never seen it so abandoned and left as it is now. The Chermes house and many emblematic buildings of the city are proof of how little interest there is to preserve, the authenticity of Denia, the old buildings are thrown away in pursuit of a business that ignores the personality of the environment. It does not matter if it is built in a protected area. Business is business.

  3. Vicky says:

    Totally agree with Pau.
    It seems incredible that such an emblematic building in Las Rotas has been allowed to disappear. The building was there, when the Mena Restaurant was a wooden beach bar and there was nothing else in Las Rotas. They have turned Denia into a place without any flavor to the fishing village that it used to be, without charm. Look at Menorca, they do not allow mass tourism to arrive there, destroyer. Very modern, very current and very rich, but without culture. Take advantage of all those who have made a profit from this destruction, but when tourism stops going to Denia for some reason, we will see what its citizens eat. There is no more economy in Denia.

  4. Rachel says:

    With how beautiful Denia is, and the great unconcern of the city council for its care. How sad

  5. Pau (FR) says:

    The truth is that the PSOE government in Denia is one of the worst, in terms of electoral promises on the protection of the public, the environment and habitability along with environmental sustainability.

    It was difficult to overcome the previous rulers with the destruction of our environment, the liquidation of natural landscapes and zero investment in public goods, but little by little you are far exceeding them.

    Unfortunately, these types of acts are expected from the previous ones, they never hid it either, but your mouths have been filled with promises about protection and blah blah blah, about sustainability and blah blah blah, natural environment and blah blah blah.

    Doubtful and hidden concessions, for a few works of luxury apartments on the very first line of the beach in Las Marinas, illegal logging of groves of which you have learned the last, destruction of protected buildings in the very center of the city and now this ...
    ..other luxury apartments in Las Rotas instead of a house or historic palace, which if it had been wanted could be used for many things and above all for the citizens.

    So yes, what was a protected building again?
    No problem, we remove it from the protection catalog (.. also secretly) and the matter is fixed, no one will find out, and yes, it will be too late.

    There is no money to maintain public buildings and for the enjoyment of citizenship?
    Well, it is already well with so much promotion of mass tourism and FITUR, in DNA and other nonsense of "Unesco Creative City" that the title of "CREATIVE" regarding these latest events seems like a macabre joke.

    The next one that awaits us, which is also already awarded, is that the Town Hall has GIVEN the Torrecremada farm to the University of Alicante for its cooking studies, then for public use by and for the citizens either.

    And do not miss it ... more than 50% of the reform and conditioning of the Torrecremada building, and it is a good million will be paid by the City Council, that is, ALL OF US so that in the end the building will not be used for the use of the neighbors and citizens.

    And so we could continue.

    I do not imagine, if this had been done by the PP or another center-right party, the Socialists together with the left would burn the streets and organize demonstrations, call for resignations, meetings and protests with speeches in public squares at all hours.

    Words are unnecessary.

    The basis of democracy in a small city such as Denia resides in the fact that we citizens elect our representatives, not so that they govern us (we are no longer in the Middle Ages), but so that they MANAGE public goods and interests together with the "box" to which we all contribute.
    And the representatives to us citizens OWE us EXPLANATIONS for each act or fact committed, or action to be committed in the future.
    And here the City Council does not give public explanations for unilateral decisions it is taking regarding assets classified as public and also never protected.
    It acts as if it were owned by the City Council itself and not by all the citizens that make up the city of Denia.

    Something's wrong, I'm afraid.

    • María says:

      I subscribe your comment Pau. The disappointment with the PS of Denia is total.

    • Anonymous says:

      Excellent comment. It is a real crime to destroy so much beauty and history in order to build those tacky modern ones of the day, to fill it with people addicted to mobile phones. Regrettable.

    • Ignacio says:

      Very well said. But add that they are all citizens of Denia too, mayors, councilors, councilors and others. Owners of land, houses, properties, etc. It is called Greed and that has no political ideology.

  6. Manuel Alminaña says:

    Denia has a bad memory, the tenor cortis, his house abandoned for years, la muntaneyta, la, denia, de, before the civil war with its shipping company, its factories, city gas, its fishing port of which a shadow remains, the neutral, el quijote, el tio pipe, marianet, the nerenderos on the beach where you could have a beer with your feet in the sand and your swimsuit wet, the hedgehogs on Sundays in the port, the, rose garden, the sailor you bought The sandwich to close the film, the kiosk of many charms that have disappeared in pursuit of a modernity that is not, at, its height, in the interior towns the typical and the customs are defended, in Denia we no longer have identity we have lost Much of what made it a paradise, I was not born here but my husband who was from Denia taught me all the charm of that city and with him I have seen him disappear in exchange for apartment towers, move the sea away from the shore with the marina, from denia, plastic yachts in lufar of the wooden boats, and strange everywhere who do not know her history, Denia has lost in that blur of her culture and customs more than with that false progress

    • Aldebaran says:

      Well, you're right. The spa of Las Arenas in Las Marinas, El Quijote, El neutro, El Gavilá. Now you ask for rubble and they don't even know what a bar owner is. The council this only makes a policy of conformation according to its sectarian memory. People come to Denia and do not know anything about its history many times, and it is logical, but everything is already growing too much ... and yes, the bus through the Marinas from September 5 every two hours, in a tourist city. What nonsense. Other


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