Els Poblets (), also known as , is a municipality in the

Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wit ...

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. It is situated in the north of the

province of Alicante Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: / ) is a 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 Co ...

. The population is 2,763 (INE 2023).

Geography

Els Poblets is located in a plain formed by alluvial soils of the Girona river. It spans about of coastline on the

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and contains the beach of Almadraba. The municipality is bordered by Denia and El Verger. The average temperature ranges from 11 degrees in January to 25 in July, the average rainfall is a year.

History

Although els Poblets has its origin in an old farm founded after the Muslim conquest, which was later incorporated into the Christian domain of

Dénia Dénia (; ) is a historical coastal city in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the Costa Blanca halfway between Alicante and Valencia (city in Spain), Valencia, and the capital and judicial seat of the Comarques of the Valencian Community, ''c ...

, there are remains of older populations. In the Roman site of Almadrava several houses belonging to a pottery were found, along with clay deposits, workshops and rooms for the workers. Towards the 16th century Miraflor was owned by the lords of Perpignan. It subsequently became the home of the Cardona noblemen. It was a place inhabited by

morisco ''Moriscos'' (, ; ; "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam. Spain had a sizeable Mus ...

s, which in 1609 had a total of 85 houses, after their expulsion a repopulation with people from Mallorca was carried out. Mira-rosa and Miraflor merged into one single municipality in 1971. On November 12 of 1991, by Decree 216/91 of the Council of the Generalitat Valenciana, it was agreed to change the name of the town to ''els Poblets'', as it was popularly known.

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* Municipalities in the Province of Alicante {{Valencia-geo-stub