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The delights of Gandía and its advantages and attractions as a holiday destination or as a place to live will be highlighted in the hugely popular travel programme “A Place in the Sun” on Channel 4 at 11.00am GMT (12.00 midday Spanish time). This is the first time that the Gandía area has featured in [...]

Gandia Activities

Gandía is a great place to come for an outdoor holiday at any time of the year. There truly is a wide range of sporting and outdoor events to participate in, and it really doesn’t matter about your level of expertise either – there is something to suit beginners and experts alike in almost every [...]

Climbing in the Gandia Area

Penya Roja de Marxuquera (Gandia Crag) is divided into 7 Sectors 1 critic(15m) , 2 Pis(20m) 3 Hidraulics(15-20m), 4 Vici(25-40m), 5 Fundicio(20m), 6 Potent(25m), 7 Final(15m) El Bovedon – This cave gives some superb hard routes which should make the Costa Blanca more attractive to climbers operating in the upper grades. It faces east and [...]

La Safor Region of Spain

The Gandia area is known as La Safor and is a gorgeous area located on the mid-eastern seaboard of Spain, almost adjacent to the Balearic Islands and just below Valencia (Spain’s third largest city). La Safor is on the cusp of the northern Costa Blanca and the southern part of the Costa del Azahar. The [...]

Find your dream villa in Spain

CasaLaSafor, has a selection of superb villas for sale in Spain located in one of the last truly ‘Spanish’ areas of coastal Spain –La Safor, an area renowned for its superb beaches, vibrant nightlife, user-friendly towns and stunning countryside. Gandia is located on the eastern side board of mainland Mediterranean Spain, almost opposite the Balearic [...]

Marchuquera Social Centre – Inauguration

The official inauguration of the new “Centro Social de Marxuquera” will take place at 20:30 on the 20 December 2011. Camí de l’Assagador de l’Ermita, 46728 Gandia, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain All local residents are invited to attend. The Major of Gandia, Arturo Torró will be hosting a cocktail party after the event. Click here [...]

Gandia to get 18 hole championship golf course?

The mayor of Gandia, Arturo Torró, announced in the last few days that the city will benefit from a top flight golf course within approximately two years, and moreover that the project will not involve any expenditure from the Town Hal nor the acquisition of any urbanised area. The project is already at an advanced [...]

Activity Holidays in Spain

Many people are seeking alternatives to the seaside resort holiday that is centred around lots of sunshine and doing as little as possible except maybe reading a book on the beach or around a swimming pool. Pleasant as that prospect may be, spending two weeks with nothing else on the agenda can become a little [...]

Gandia Nature Trails, Routes and Excursions

The Magic of Gandía’s Scenic Walks and Landscapes Gandía is set in the La Safor region of Valencia and affords the visitor easy access to a huge range of mountain walks, hiking routes and biking excursions. Routes have been marked out for the traveller to follow – generally marked with red and white signs – [...]

Autumn and Winter Sunshine Holidays in Spain

Autumn and Winter Sunshine The weather is most definitely beginning to cool down in northern Europe now generally, but this year has seen a wonderful, long summer in Spain, and particularly along the Costa Blanca. September and October have so far been unusually warm and settled, and this weather seems here to stay for a [...]

Gandia Fira i Festes 2011

The Fira i Festes Gandia begin in late September to early October. This festival of the city is in honor of San Francisco de Borja, and his day is on October 3 and is therefore the most important of the party.These festivities begin with the parade of “Tio de la Porra”. The fair is from [...]

Bird Watching in Spain

valenciabirding.com is owned by Nature Trail Spain, a small but specialist active tourism company based in La Drova, 70km south of Valencia, Spain. We provide guided Bird Watching Tours throughout Eastern Spain, encompassing Valencia, Alicante and Castilla de la Mancha. This area is blessed with an incredibly diverse range of habitats and excellent birding sites, many of which are [...]

Gandia Polytechnic University of Valencia

Gandia Polytechnic University of Valencia is keen to encourage foreign students to come to the campus. At present, they have some 120 foreign students at the Gandia International University. After all some of the best beaches in Spain are five minutes walk away from the Gandia university campus, Gandia town is wonderful (by anyone’s [...]

Public Access Bicycles

A New Form of Public Transport in Gandia! Since its official launch at the beginning of May, a new form of public transport has been available to the citizens of Gandia – public access bicycles. The scheme – called “labici” – was piloted for two weeks prior to the official launch on May 1st, during [...]

High-Speed AVE Train Arrives in Gandia

The first of the trial service of the high-speed AVE train from Madrid has arrived in Gandia. Usually this service runs from Madrid as far as Valencia, but as an experiment a trial service to Gandia is being provided over and around the Easter and May holiday weekends. The plan is that it will come [...]