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La
Marina on the Costa Blanca is located 20 minutes drive south of
Alicante Airport. There is a large urbanisation and everything that
you could possibly need to make your stay here
enjoyable is within reach at a nearby location.
The Blue Flag La Marina beach is just down the road with
its natural sand dunes and there is always space to spread out on 11
miles of golden sandy beaches. Market day in La Marina is
Thursday and there is also a Sunday Market on the
dedicated site at the same location on calle Justo
Quesada. La Marina urbanisation is situated within the local
council area of San Fulgencio.
In 1729 Cardinal Belluga received 40,000 tahúllas of
poor and marshy land in the area around the delta of the Segura
River from Orihuela and Guardamar del Segura, and founded San
Fulgencio. He was to drain the wetlands and make them fertile
and productive and then use rents obtained from the land for good
works, ie.orphanages and hospitals in Murcia. In fact, San Fulgencio
owes its name to the patron saint of Murcia, the town which was
Cardinal Belluga's diocesan seat. The Archaeological Museum in San
Fulgencio represents, through the different materials that were
found, the different aspects of everyday life of the ancient
Iberian people, from the utensils they used, and, who they bartered
with, to the way that they buried their dead.
The
Costa
Blanca
enjoys more than 2,800 hours of sunshine throughout the
year and an average annual temperature of 19.3° C, the perfect
microclimate for ideal year-round living conditions. The high number of days of clear skies and sunshine
means that this area is the perfect place to be to
enjoy the outdoors just about every day of the
year. For the latest weather forecast click
here: Weather
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 The Spanish town of
Guardamar is on the coast just a 10 minute
car journey from La Marina. The bustling seaside town of
Torrevieja is a 20 minute drive south. There are day
trips on boats from Santa Pola and Alicante to the small offshore
island of Tabarca, the only inhabited island in the region of
Valencia, with it's underwater reserve. Benidorm and the Terra
Mitica theme park are just a 45 minute drive away. Car rental
on the Costa Blanca is very economical. A
small car can be rented for as little as 99 Euros for one
week.
 La
Marina as it was...
1985 - Copied from a Masa
promotion leaflet, one of the very first Masa showhouses. Address
now is Parque del Sil No.1. Take a look at this location now
and you will find it hard to believe it once stood alone as in
this photo.
1985 - Calle
Andalucia from the bend in the road. In the distance is
the tree that still stands in the middle of this road
(behind the
Hillside/Aquapark).
2001 - This photo shows calle Gonzalo de Berceo,
which is the first road on the right coming into La
Marina urb travelling on Camino del Convenio from Iceland.
The old abandoned finca on the right in this photo is still in
existence today. There are now houses along the left side of
this road.
Have you ever wondered what the La
Marina area was like in the early days of
construction? During the Gota Fria in
1988? To view other photos and more
information: Click
Here
We want to hear from you if you
have old photos of the area that we can feature on this site.
Please let us know:
Tel: 654 027
748 email:
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