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Algorfa
Algorfa () is a village in the Costa Blanca area of Spain, near the coast and surrounded by Mediterranean pine forest and citrus groves. Algorfa lies on the banks of the Segura river and is approximately ten minutes' drive to the nearest blue flag beaches of the Mediterranean and a 35 minutes' drive from the Alicante Airport and the Murcia–San Javier Airport. It is a ten minute drive inland from the coastal resort of Guardamar del Segura. As one of Vega Baja del Segura’s citrus farming villages, with a population of nearly 3,000, Algorfa is situated within a fertile countryside. Just outside the village is an unusual neo-Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ... church that was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Algorfa holds a market on W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vega Baja Del Segura
Vega Baja del Segura (; Mapa temàtic comarcal de la Comunitat Valenciana, serie CV350. Institut Cartogràfic Valencià. 2022, Col·leccions AutonòmiquesPDF/ref> ), simply known locally and regionally as Vega Baja (in Spanish), is a ''comarca'' in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. The region is only Spanish-speaking, except Guardamar del Segura where Valencian is the traditional local language. To the north its neighbouring ''comarcas'' are the Baix Vinalopó and Vinalopó Mitjà. Its southern limits are also those of the Valencian Community as it meets a different autonomous community The autonomous communities () are the first-level administrative divisions of Spain, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy to the nationalities and regions that make up Sp ..., the Region of Murcia. Municipalities The ''comarca'' is composed References External links Torreviejacity video. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicante (province)
Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: / ) is a Provinces of Spain, province located in eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is the second most populated Valencian province, containing the second and third biggest cities in the Valencian Community—Alicante and Elche, respectively. Alicante is bordered by the provinces of Region of Murcia, Murcia on the southwest, Albacete (province), Albacete on the west, Valencia (province), Valencia on the north, and the Mediterranean Sea on the east. The province is named after its capital, the city of Alicante (also known in Valencian as ''Alacant''). Territory, population and resources According to the 2018 population data, Alicante ranks as the fourth most populous province in Spain (after Community of Madrid, Madrid, Barcelona (province), Barcelona and Valencia (province), Valencia), with 1,838,819 inhabitants. Cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants in the province are Alicante (334,757 inhabitants), Elche (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality (, , , , , )In other languages of Spain: *Catalan language, Catalan/Valencian (), grammatical number, sing. . *Galician language, Galician () or (), grammatical number, sing. /. *Basque language, Basque (), grammatical number, sing. . *Asturian language, Asturian (), grammatical number, sing. . is one of the two fundamental territorial divisions in Spain, the other being the Provinces of Spain, provinces. Organisation Although provinces of Spain, provinces are groupings of municipality, municipalities, there is no implied hierarchy or primacy of one over the other. Instead the two entities are defined according to the authority or jurisdiction of each (). Some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas of Spain, comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). The governing body in most municipalities is called ''Ayuntamiento (Spain), ayuntamiento'' (municipal council or municipal corporation, corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcalde
''Alcalde'' (; ) is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and Administration (government), administrative functions. An ''alcalde'' was, in the absence of a corregidor (position), corregidor, the presiding officer of the Crown of Castile, Castilian ''Cabildo (council), cabildo'' (the municipal council) and judge of first instance of a town. ''Alcaldes'' were elected annually, without the right to reelection for two or three years, by the ''regidores'' (council members) of the municipal council. The office of the ''alcalde'' was signified by a staff of office, which they were to take with them when doing their business. A woman who holds the office is termed an ''alcaldesa''. In New Spain (Mexico), ''alcaldes mayores'' were chief administrators in colonial-era administrative territories termed ''alcaldías mayores''; in colonial-era Peru the units were called ''corregimientos''. ''Alcalde'' was also a title given to Indigenous peoples of the America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England. Increasingly serious and learned admirers sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic Revival had become the pre-eminent architectural style in the Western world, only to begin to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s. For some in England, the Gothic Revival movement had roots that were intertwined with philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of high church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardamar Del Segura
Guardamar del Segura (), 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 '' F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murcia–San Javier Airport
Murcia–San Javier Airport is a military airport and former civilian passenger airport located in San Javier, southeast of Murcia, Spain. It is owned by the Spanish Air and Space Force. It was replaced (after several delays) by the new Región de Murcia International Airport, when it opened on 15 January 2019. Overview Operations The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757. It has Category 5 fire cover by the IATA, and also has one ambulance available. The military air base dates back to at least the early 1930s and is located at the northern end of the airport. It is used chiefly by Spanish Air and Space Force turboprop, piston and jet-engined training aircraft of the Academia General del Aire (the Spanish Air Force College), including the aerobatic demonstration team of the Spanish Air and Space Force Patrulla Águila which can often be seen practicing over the nearby Mar Menor. In recent years, Murcia Airport became much busier thanks to the arriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicante Airport
Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in the Valencian Community. Toponymy The name of the city echoes the Arabic name ''Laqant'' (), ''al-Laqant'' (اللَّقَنْت) or ''Al-qant'' (), which in turn reflects the Latin ''Lucentum'' and Greek root ''Leuké'' (or ''Leuka''), meaning "white". History The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7,000 years. The first tribes of hunter-gatherers moved gradually from Central Europe between 5000 and 3000 BC. Some of the earlier settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil. By 1000 BC, Greek and Phoenician traders had begun to visit the eastern coast of Spain, establishing small trading ports and introducing the native Iberian tribes to the alphabet, iron, and the pottery wheel. The Carthaginian general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Segura
Segura (Spanish and Valencian: ; ; , or ) is a medium-sized river in southeastern Spain. It has its source in the Sierra de Segura. Course The 325-km (202 mi) long river begins at Santiago Pontones ( province of Jaén), passes Calasparra, Cieza, Blanca, Murcia, Beniaján (Region of Murcia), Orihuela, Rojales, and flows into the Mediterranean Sea near Guardamar del Segura in the province of Alicante. Some of its tributaries are the Mundo (which starts near Riópar), the Alhárabe (which starts in Moratalla), the Mula, and the Guadalentín. The alluvial plain is called the ''Vega del Segura'' and is a very productive agricultural region growing a wide variety of fruit, vegetables, and flowers. The ''Vegas'' are divided into three areas: ''Alta'', ''Media'', and ''Baja'' (upper, medium, and lower). Tributaries The Segura's main tributaries are: Recovery By the 1990s, the Segura had become one of the most polluted rivers in Europe, due to the canning industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and List of largest cities in Spain, largest city is Madrid, and other major List of metropolitan areas in Spain, urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Blanca
The Costa Blanca (, ; , literally meaning "White Coast") is over of Mediterranean coastline in the Alicante province of the Valencian Community, on the southeastern coast of Spain. It extends from the town of Dénia in the north, beyond which lies the Costa de Valencia, to Pilar de la Horadada in the south, beyond which lies the Costa Cálida. The name ''Costa Blanca'' was coined in the 1950s as a way to promote tourism. The region has a well-developed Tourism in Spain, tourism industry and is a popular destination for British and German tourists. The localities along the Costa Blanca are Alicante (''Alicante/Alacant''), Altea, Benidorm, Benissa (''Benisa''), Calpe (''Calp''), Dénia (''Denia''), Elche (''Elche/Elx''), El Campello (''Campello''), Finestrat, Guardamar del Segura, L'Alfàs del Pi (''Alfaz del Pi''), Orihuela Costa, Pilar de la Horadada, Santa Pola, Teulada, Spain, Teulada–Moraira, Torrevieja, Villajoyosa (''Villajoyosa/La Vila Joiosa'') and Xàbia (''Xàbia/J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PSPV-PSOE
The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (; , PSPV–PSOE) is a social-democratic political party in the Valencian Community, and is a regional branch of the national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). The PSPV was originally a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia. In 1978, they decided to merge with the much larger national PSOE, to which they integrated. Their name remains in the name of the Valencian branch of the PSOE, officially called PSPV-PSOE, even though it is usually reduced to PSOE only by the party itself. This Valencian branch of the PSOE, unlike their Catalan counterpart, does not have a record of having acted independently from the national executive of the Spanish-wide PSOE. History The PSPV-PSOE was the ruling party in the Valencian Country from 1983 through 1995. The People's Party (PP) won the elections since 1995 until 2015, when the PSPV-PSOE won the elections and end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
