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Tips, Trips, and Stories From Our Worldly TravelsLa Vila Joiosa: The Colourful Town That Defended the Mediterranean
At first glance, La Vila Joiosa is immediately recognisable for its colourful waterfront houses. Painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow and green, they were not originally intended to attract tourists. According to local tradition, fishermen painted each house...
More Than a Pizza: The Evening That Defined Spanish Hospitality in Dénia
Travelling often creates memories that have little to do with famous monuments or spectacular landscapes. Sometimes, a simple and unexpected gesture says far more about a place than any guidebook ever could. One such moment took place during an evening at Pizzeria San...
Beniarbeig: From a Moorish Farmstead to the Heart of the Orange Groves
Beniarbeig is a small municipality in the Marina Alta comarca of the Province of Alicante, within the Valencian Community. Located on the fertile plain of the Girona River and at the foot of the Segària mountain range, it is one of those inland villages whose history...
Xàbia: Between the Montgó Massif, Mediterranean Pirates and the Kingdom of Valencia
Xàbia, officially known in Valencian as Xàbia and in Spanish as Jávea, is the easternmost municipality of the Province of Alicante, within the Valencian Community. Situated between Cape San Antonio and Cape La Nao, it occupies one of the punti più strategici della...
Dénia: The Historic Gateway to the Balearic Islands
Dénia is a historic port city in the Province of Alicante, within the Valencian Community, occupying a strategic position on the Mediterranean Sea between the Gulf of Valencia and Cape San Antonio. For more than two thousand years, its natural harbour has connected...
The Night a Passenger Aircraft Diverted from an Unknown Light
On the night of 11 November 1979, a routine passenger flight over the western Mediterranean became the central event in Spain’s best-known aviation mystery. A Sud Aviation SE 210 Super Caravelle operated by Transportes Aéreos Españoles was travelling from Salzburg...
Carcaixent
Carcaixent is a municipality in the Province of Valencia, within the Valencian Community, located on the fertile plain of the Ribera Alta, approximately forty kilometres south of Valencia. Although it is often overlooked by international visitors, the town occupies an...
Valencia
Valencia is the capital of the Valencian Community and the third-largest city in Spain, located on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Turia River. Founded by the Romans in 138 Before Christ as Valentia Edetanorum, the city has been shaped by Roman,...
Cullera
Cullera is a coastal municipality in the Province of Valencia, within the Valencian Community, situated at the mouth of the Júcar River where it enters the Mediterranean Sea. Its strategic position between the river, the sea and a prominent limestone hill has made it...
Vilanova d’Alcolea, the Via Augusta and Aeropuerto de Castellón-Costa Azaharx
Vilanova d’Alcolea is a small municipality in the Province of Castellón, within the Valencian Community, positioned between the Mediterranean coast and the inland landscape of the Maestrat. Its present appearance is largely agricultural, with olive trees, almond...