STATUS, HISTORY AND POPULATION

HISTORICAL SITUATION

Guardamar is an small and calm town from the region of La Safor, is placed near to Gandia and just 50km from Valencia. Is bath by the Mediterranean sea waters. It owns a very nice beach of fine sand and golden color and moderate suge, optimal for the bath. It also emphasizes its wonderful dunar cord which is the main tourist attractive of this town, where new buildings of high quality have been spread or extended. Guardamar is placed to an unevenness of about two or three meters respect to the sea, what allows being the balcony of the sea, allowing to observe from the town a perfect landscape of the lands near to the sea and also the Mediterranean sea. It owns a Mediterranean aroma, is a familiar beach that has understand how to combine the new urban expansion taking into account the respect to the environment.

COMUNICATION VIAS

The municipal term of Guardamar de la safor is found crossed by the road CV-670, which is perfectly communicated with the roads CV-332, CN-337 ( to the port of Gandia), the A-7 freeway and also the CV-70 towards the interior of the region.

HISTORY AND MONUMENTS

You can make a visit to an old monument of Islamic origin known as “La Alquería dels Tamarits”. When the reconquest passed, the town was preserved until the expulsion of the moriscos (the descendants of the muslim population that converted to Christianity under threat of exile from Ferdinand and Isabella in 1502.) On the next decades, the town remained practically depopulated, passing to be property of “los borgia”and later to the property of “El Marqués de Mirasol ”. From the beginnings of the XVII century its population keep practically stable, with a light increasing on the beginnings of the xx. Actually its population is around 100 habitants increasing the last years. Respect to the monuments we must name:

– “La casa señorial de los Tamarits”, from the beginning of the XVII century, preserved on good state.

– The church dedicated to -Juan Bautista- , also dated from the XVII century.