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 forecast 

Average coastline sea temperature
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
19	18	19	23	24	25	26	27	26	24	22	22

 

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 In The 80s

 

Copied from a Masa promotion leaflet in 1985, 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.

Calle Andalucia from the bend in the road. In the distance is the tree that still stands in the middle of this road (near the Aquapark/Hillside). 

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

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