property in altea: presentation of altea, its history, mountains and surroundings
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ALTEA & SURROUNDINGS:
Culture, history, mountains & activities
Altea, 28 January 2011
DID YOU KNOW THAT…?
Altea is a part of:
Comunidad Valenciana (region)Alicante (province)
La Marina Baixa (county)
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This is the municipality:
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This is the urban area:
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This is the county:
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This is the neighbouring county:
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Geographically speaking, Altea is surrounded by beautiful mountains…
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…and it has an amazing inland valley behind it:
Aitana: 1.558 mPuig Campana: 1.406 mSierra de Bèrnia: 1.125 m
Natural parks in the surroundings are:
Peñón de IfachSerra Gelada
Sierra Mariola (near Alcoy/Alcoi)
DID YOU KNOW THAT…?
Average annual temperature is 17.10 ºC (vs. 18.80 ºC in the province of Alicante)
Annual total rain amounts up to 3 times that of Southern Alicante (micro-climate)
Its “legal” population is 24,006 inhabitants (vs. 13.559 in 1995), but in summertime it can go up to 40-50,000
inhabitants
Foreign population is 34,6% (vs. average of 24,2% in Alicante province)
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Hotel capacity in the surrounding area (not in Altea) is one of the biggest in the world
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Jaime I, King of Aragón, conquers Altea La Vella in 1244 during the
Spanish Reconquista
Border between Arab and Christian territories lays in the Algar river for approx. 50 years
Today’s Altea La Vella was Christian / Today’s Altea was Arab
(Bellaguarda)
Border moves down to Villajoyosa by the end of the 13th century
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In 1705 Archduke Charles of Austria disembarks his
Spanish-Dutch-British troops in Altea (L’Olla beach) to fight in the Spanish Succession
War
Fort de Bèrnia (build 16th century, destroyed 17th
century) was a main vigilance point for the Spanish army against pirates’ invasions
Uncontrolled bandits lived in the county…until the 1930s…
The legend of the Mascarat
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Altea and Calpe were 1st connected in the 1930 (Mascarat tunnel)
Original economy based on fisheries & agriculture adds tourism form the
1960s…
Bohemia shows up… cultural activities become a flag activity for
Altea since then.
Today, Altea & the northern county of La Marina Alta represent a value-for-money option amongst high-end touristic areas in Spain
(Marbella, Ibiza, Menorca, Mallorca, Northern Costa Brava)
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The Guadalest Valley (with the impressive Castell de Guadalest and the Algar Fountains) was once selected by the WHO as one of the
healthiest place to live on Earth…
MY PREFERRED ACTIVITIES
Trekking in Sierra Aitana or Sierra Bèrnia
Climbing the Puig Campana
Climbing the Peñón de Ifach
Kayaking around Serra Gelada
Night life in Benidorm
A beach day in Jávea / Cala Granadella / Cabo de
la Nao
A beach night by Jávea’s beach bars
Driving the coastal road from Calpe to Moraira
A walk in Guadalest Old Town
Swimming in the Algar Fountains
A day in Terra Mítica /Terra Natura (kids)
A day in a water park in Benidorm (kids)
DO NOT MISS…
http://www.alteamipueblo.es/
Old picturesGastronomy
Listing of FiestasEtc.
