La Marina

La Fonteta is an ancient Phoenician port city that was located in what is now the town of Guardamar del Segura, Alicante, Spain. La Fonteta was a Phoenician port situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Segura River that existed from the 8th century to the 6th century BC; excavations have exposed remains of a settlement whose dimensions suggest an urban area of perhaps eight hectares, making it one of the largest and best preserved Phoenician cities in the western Mediterranean. From its founding, the port city of La Fonteta had access to an environment that included a sanctuary located at Guardamar, which likely attracted a cult of Astarte, protector goddess of sailors, at a point of land on the coast crucial to marine navigation. The archaeological record, with preservation favored by the sand dunes at Guardamar del Segura that buried the city, indicates that La Fonteta was one of the most important Phoenician cities of the 7th and 8th centuries BC.Bronze, ivory, and glass objects found in strata dating to the Atlantic Bronze Age at Peña Negra in the nearby Serra de Crevillent show trade in the area with the Phoenicians beginning as early as the 9th century and increasing in the 8th century B.C. The Atlantic-style metallurgical production at Peña Negra, which is also close to the mouth of the Segura River, likely attracted peoples from the eastern Mediterranean who would benefit from this enterprise. In 1983 an archaeological expedition led by Alfredo González Prats identified Peña Negra as the Herna mentioned in the Ora Maritima, a flourishing mercantile center where several trade routes converged.Archaeological work on a section of wall has revealed 60 m (200 ft) of defensive fortifications. The wall, built from medium-sized stones of soft sandstone and calcarenite limestone, was between 4 and 5 m (13–16 ft), and may have been over 7 metres (23 ft) wide at its base. An advanced architectural method was employed to construct it, with buttresses hígher than the brick being placed at regular points to isolate sections of the wall and prevent movement, such as that caused by an earthquake, from being transmitted along its entire length and making it unstable. Among the material culture found at La Fonteta is a large repertoire of Phoenician typological pottery: amphorae, plates, decorated cups, and a variety of red slipware and burnished pottery including rimmed plates, bowls, oenochoes, lamps, and tripods. Archaic Greek pottery, and ritual objects such as decorated ostrich eggs, ivory, and scarabs, etc., appear as well.

Guardamar del Segura (Valencian pronunciation: [ˌɡwaɾðaˈmaɾ ðel seˈɣuɾa]) 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 an area of fishermen and farmers, Guardamar del Segura is the southernmost point where Valencian is spoken. 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 Spanish, "guardar" means "safekeeping" and "mar" means "sea", and this is another possible basis for its current name. Guardamar is the southernmost Catalan-speaking town and in 1991 41.8% of the town's residents could speak it. Guardamar hosts local festivals like Moros i Cristians, L'Encantà, and Fogueres de Sant Joan, which commemorate its history.

Segura (Spanish: [seˈɣuɾa], Valencian: [seˈɣuɾa]; Latin: Thader; Arabic: شقورة, romanized: Shaqūrah, or وادي الأبيض Wādī l-Abyaḍ) is a medium-sized river in southeastern Spain. It has its source in the Sierra de Segura.

Torreta de Guardamar (Valencian: [toˈreta ðe ˌɣwaɾðaˈmaɾ], Spanish: [toˈreta ðe ˌɣwaɾðaˈmaɾ]) or Torre de los Americanos is a 380-metre tall guyed radio mast erected by the US Navy near Guardamar del Segura, Spain. It was built in 1962 and is the tallest architectural structure in both the Iberian peninsula and the European Union, and the tallest military structure in Europe. Its base is situated 64 metres above sea level at a distance of 1.4 km from the sea.

San Fulgencio is a village in the province of Alicante and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 19.75 square kilometres (7.63 sq mi) and at the 2011 Census had a population of 9,572, of whom 77% were of foreign origin; the latest official estimate (as at the start of 2019) was 7,855. English was the most spoken language in the town

Rojales is a village in the province of Alicante and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 27.6 square kilometres (10.7 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 21583 people.

Santa Pola (Valencian and Spanish: [ˈsanta ˈpola]) is a coastal town located in the comarca of Baix Vinalopó in the Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 58.6 km2 (23 sq mi) and has a population of 36,174 inhabitants of whom 6,000 are residents of the nearby town of Gran Alacant.The town has an important salt evaporation pond known as the salines which remains in business, additionally, most of it is recognized as the Natural Park of Salines de Santa Pola, an important Ramsar site. The town was settled over the ruins of a Roman village called Portus Ilicitanus (literally, Harbour of Elche); after being abandoned for decades, then a castle was constructed in the 16th century which marked the repopulation of Santa Pola. The town has an archeological museum covering these phases. Santa Pola is, at present, a coastal fishing and tourist town. Population more than doubles during the summer, with people coming mostly from the rest of the Alicante province, and also from the Basque autonomous community, Madrid, France and the UK, just to mention some. The nearby island of Tabarca (part of Alicante) can be visited by ship. The new town of Gran Alacant, 5 km (3 mi) north of Santa Pola along the Alicante bay, accounts for about one third of the population of the district. Next to it is the Carabasi area, a nature reserve. Gran Alacant lies only a few kilometres from Alicante Airport and a few hundred metres from the town of Los Arenales which is located in the Elche district. In June 2009, the Valencian Government announced that the Alicante Tram system will be extended southwards via Alicante Airport and El Altet, to stations in Gran Alacant and Santa Pola and then onwards to Guardamar and Torrevieja before terminating in Murcia.

Daya Vieja (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdaʝa ˈβjexa]) is a municipality of the Valencian Community (Spain), situated in the south-east of the Province of Alicante, in the comarca of Vega Baja del Segura.

Benijófar (Spanish pronunciation: [beniˈxofaɾ]) is a municipality in the comarca of Vega Baja del Segura in the Valencian Community, Spain.

Ciudad Quesada is a district in the municipality of Rojales in the Province of Alicante, Spain. It has a population of 16,583 people (INE 2013). It is located in the southern area of Rojales, 6 km from Mediterranean sea. Justo Quesada, a Spanish entrepreneur, started the city in the 1970s and it is now considered to be a Spanish town with its own town hall.Ciudad Quesada also has a Norwegian school called Den Norske Skolen I Rojales (DNSR).

Formentera del Segura is a municipality and village in the province of Alicante and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 4.3 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) and as of 2015 had a population of 4206 people.

The Estadio Martínez Valero is a stadium located in the Spanish city of Elche in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community. It is the home stadium of Elche CF, a team that is currently playing in Segunda División. Its name pays tribute to the late president of the club, Manuel Martínez Valero. It hosted the largest rout in the finals of a World Cup and hosted the final of the Copa del Rey in 2003. The Spanish football team has played several friendly matches and competitive qualifiers there. The stadium has the largest field dimensions in Europe. With a capacity of 31,388 seats, Martínez Valero is the 15th-largest stadium in Spain and the 2nd-largest in the Valencian community.