About Denia & the Marina Mountains
Our Denia base is located between Valencia and Alicante on the Spanish Mediterranean coast known as Costa Blanca, mean annual temperature are 19°C with an average of 300 days of sunshine per year. See Google map
Read what Trent Lowe of Pro Team GARMIN SLIPSTREAM
says ABOUT training in The Marina Mountains.
Sports & leisure
As well as a great base for cycling, Denia has plenty more to offer. It has miles of sandy beaches, spectacular rocky coves, colourful fiestas (no other town in Spain has more of them),
Beaches
Las Marinas, situated to the north, boasts 15 km of fine, uncrowded, sandy beaches -ideal for swimming, wind surfing or sunbathing-, while to the south of town, the rocky beaches and coves of Las Rotas with the nearby Marine Reserve of the Cape of San Antonio are a paradise for scuba divers and snorkelers.
Eating out
There are dozens of fine restaurants and Tapas bars litter the "old quarters" surrounding the Calle Lloret.
The town with more Fiestas in Spain
Denia is full of life, colour and Mediterranean joie de vivre . Be sure to visit one of its famous fiestas:
- January 5 th: Mounted procession of the Three Wise Men. The 3 wise men arrive by boat into Denia port and then there is a procession around the town Very spectacular!
- January 26 th: Procession of the Church of Santa Paula
- March 16th - 19th: "Fallas". One of the town biggest fiesta periods Large satirical monuments are set up throughout the town then set alight on the last fiesta night.
- 2nd Sunday of May: "Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados"
- 1st two weeks of June: Procession Virgen del Rocío "
- June 20th -24th: "Fogueres of Sant Juan" The welcoming of summer, people go to the beach at night light fires and have barbeque
- July: "Bous a la Mar". Bulls at the sea. Again another big fiesta week where bulls run through the streets and chase people around the bull ring
- August 14th ,15th and 16th: "Moros y Cristianos". Moors and Christians. This celebrates the Christian victory over the African moors
- Last weekend of August: "San Augustí" (Les Rotes)
- End of October: All Saints Fair
- 13th December: Procession to the Church of Santa Llúcia
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