Toniher · CC BY-SA 3.0Coastal town
Guardamar del Segura (Valencian), or briefly Guardamar, is a municipality of the province of Alicante located at the mouth of the river Segura in southern Valencia (autonomous community), Spain. It is a Mediterranean resort, with a large pine forest abutting an 11-km-long white sand beach.
Historically, it was an area of fishermen and farmers. A Phoenician colony, called Herna by Roman geographer Avienius in his book Ora Maritima was the first settlement near the mouth of Segura river, In Valencian, guardar means safekeeping and mar means sea, and this is another possible basis for its current name.
Guardamar is the southernmost Valencian-speaking town and in 1991 41.8% of the town's residents could speak it. Guardamar is also the only municipality of the Vega Baja del Segura comarca (known locally as Baix Segura) where Valencian is traditionally and widely spoken.
Guardamar hosts local festivals like Moros i Cristians (Moros y Cristianos), L'Encantà, and Fogueres de Sant Joan (Hogueras de San Juan), which commemorate its history.
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El castillo de Guardamar se encuentra en un cerro rocoso sito junto a la localidad del mismo nombre, en la comarca de la Vega Baja del Segura (Alicante, España).
CastilloBien de interés cultural
El yacimiento arqueológico de Cabezo Pequeño del Estaño es un pequeño núcleo amurallado del Hierro Antiguo de los siglos VIII y VI a.
FortalezaBien de interés cultural
El yacimiento arqueológico de la Rábida Califal de las Dunas de Guardamar del Segura (Alicante, España) data del siglo X.
Yacimiento arqueológicoBien de interés cultural
La Fonteta es una antigua ciudad portuaria fenicia localizada en el término municipal de Guardamar del Segura (Alicante, España). Su relevancia viene determinada por ser un enclave orientalizante en la zona levantina de la península ibérica, puerto de entrada a las rutas comerciales del interior.
Yacimiento arqueológico
Iglesia parroquialBien de Relevancia Local
ConjuntoBien inmueble de Etnología
Torre fortificadaBien de interés cultural
Torre fortificadaBien de interés cultural
Torre defensivaBien de interés cultural
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Museo
Muralla
Yacimiento
Mirador
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Places and plans from OpenStreetMap (ODbL): what is mapped within the municipal boundary, by name. If something is missing, it can be added there and will appear here in the next update.
What there really is in the village and around it, with distances. If an activity isn't on this list, we haven't found it nearby.
