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Guardamar del Segura
Valencia, Spain · Europe
About Guardamar del Segura
Guardamar del Segura sits on the route: 10 minutes from Rojales.
Guardamar del Segura is in Valencia, Spain, with about 16,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Rojales, about 6 km away.
Guardamar del Segura (Valencian: [ˌɡwaɾðaˈmaɾ ðel seˈɣuɾa]), 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 sandRead more
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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Where is Guardamar del Segura?
Guardamar del Segura is in Valencia, Spain, about 6 km from Rojales.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 16,329
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Valencia
- Timezone
- Europe/Madrid
- Coordinates
- 38.0903, -0.6556
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Spain
Guardia Civil (traffic police): 062. Two warning triangles required in vehicles.
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Driving roads near Guardamar del Segura
- 76 kmEl Castell de GuadalestA tiny mountain village entered through a rock tunnel, its bell tower perched on a crag above a turquoise reservoir.
Driving in Spain
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.55/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€4.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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