Guardamar del Segura
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Guardamar del Segura is located at the mouth of the river Segura in the Spanish province of Alicante. It is a Mediterranean resort, with a large pine forest abutting a 11-km-long white sand beach.
Historically an area of fishermen and farmers, Guardamar del Segura is the southernmost point where the Valencian dialect of Catalan is spoken. But its history is older. 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 feasts 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 and ?glass lemonade).
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