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About the Costa Blanca
Jalon and Orba Valleys in the Northern Costa Blanca
Welcome to this enchanting part of Spain. The region stretches from Valencia, the city that invented paella and is proud of it's tapas, stages Las Fallas, Europe's wildest spring festival, and is home to a 22nd-century city of Arts and Sciences, south to the city of Alicante, a bustling, bright port and holiday city with vibrant nightlife.
The coastline boasts some of the Spain's finest sandy beaches, as well as delightful natural features such as La Albufera, a freshwater lake famous for it's bird life, eels, flat bottomed boats and surrounding paella restaurants, and charming towns such as Altea, one of the prettiest little pueblos on the Valencian coastline, as well as the tourist Mecca of Benidorm with it's superb beaches and fantastic nightlife.
Along the Costa Blanca, the White Coast, you will find some of Spain's most popular beach resorts including Gandia, Oliva, Denia, Moraira, Javea, Altea, Benissa and Calpe offering great beaches, excellent sports activities, lovely marinas and fishing ports surrounded by restaurants and bars serving some of the best of Spain's traditional cuisine.
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Inland, the hidden treasures are bountiful. A 15-minute car journey from the coast will take you through some of the most stunning and breathtaking landscapes, where the mountains rise majestically and castles abound, offering a taste of real, rural Spain. From the coastal area of Calpe, inland you will find Benissa, a town built several miles from the coast to ward off pirate attacks. From here a drive through rolling hills takes you to Lliber a small historic village and on to Jalon and the famed wine country of the Jalon Valley. Dubbed the Costa Blanca's Jewel in the Crown by the British travel press, vineyards, almond groves, orange and lemon groves literally cover the valley floor. Once famed for it's sweet raisins made from muscatel grapes, the area now produces award-winning wines that can be sampled in one of the local bodegas. Beyond the town of Jalon, other pretty rural villages including Alcalali, Parcent, Orba, Murla and Benidoleig, are dotted along the valley and on into the neighbouring Orba Valley.
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Jalon Valley
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From the Jalon Valley, a scenic road winds up and through the pass of the Col de Rates, providing amazing views towards the coast, and then on to the northern hill towns of the Sierra de Aitana where you will find Alcoy one of the oldest settlements in the area situated on a sheltered river plain. The river Algar rises just outside the town of Callosa d'Ensarria and flows down to the beautiful and very popular Fonts d'Algar, a series of waterfalls, complete with natural diving pool, set in a steep-sided gorge. From Callosa, the road carries on along the valley inland to magical Guadalest, one of the most picturesque of all the inland villages. |
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Calpe Coast
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The region offers something for everyone from beautiful sandy beaches, nature parks, and excellent sports activities, to fascinating history, beautiful architecture and lively culture with its distinctive local cuisine not to mention lively Fiestas staged throughout the year. Opportunities for outdoor activities for all the family abound, from theme parks, safari parks and water parks to pony trekking and mountain walking, while a wonderful choice of restaurants caters for all tastes from traditional Spanish cuisine, to European and Moroccan. |
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