Guardamar del Segura 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. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Location of Alicante province in Spain. ... Segura River. ... for the cycling team, see Comunitat Valenciana (cycling team). ... For other uses, see Beach (disambiguation). ...

Historically an area of fishermen and farmers, Guardamar del Segura is the southernmost point where the Valencian dialect of Catalan is spoken by few people. However, Castilian (Spanish) is spoken throughout the whole area by the majority of the population (above of 95%). Valencian (valencià) is the historical, traditional, and is the official name used in the Land of Valencia (Spain) to refer to the language spoken therein, also known as Catalan (català) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and one of several co-official languages in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Valencia (under the name Valencian), and Catalonia. ...

A Phoenician colony called Alonis was the first settlement, and later Arabs called the place Guald-a-amar (River of the Sand), likely the basis for its name today.

Guardamar hosts local fiestas like Moros i Cristians, L'Encantà, and Fogueres de Sant Joan, which commemorate its history (Iberic, Arab, and Christian). The local spirit is called Aigua de València (champagne, fresh orange, cointreau). Parade of a Christian filà of Moros y Cristianos festival in Alcoy. ... Champagne is often consumed as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation. ... Binomial name Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck Orange—specifically, sweet orange—refers to the citrus tree Citrus sinensis (syn. ... Cointreau is an orange-flavored liqueur similar to triple sec and to Grand Marnier. ...

External links

• Up to date information about Guardamar del Segura with quality photographs
• Website giving free tourist information since 1998, for Guardamar del Segura, on the sunny Costa Blanca, in Spain
• GUARDAMAR.com
• Agrupación Musical de Guardamar del Segura
• guardamardelsegura.com

Coordinates: 38°06′N 0°39′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...