Only four large cities in the Costa Blanca were saved last year from a demographic decline in the Valencia region, specifically Benidorm, Denia, Elda and Alcoy, according to final data from the Municipal census offered by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

In order of growth are Denia and Benidorm, which in 2006 won a 2.7 and a 2.1% population growth-compared to 2.4 and 0.2% from a year earlier, in addition to Elda and Alcoy that maintained their population they only grew by 0.3 and 0.2% - but they didn’t lose population as they did in 2005.

The population growth in the Valencia region during 2006, which was 1.6% (one third lower than in the previous year) mainly benefited the middle-sized cities-or population between 20,000 and 30,000.

Nine of the 12 municipalities that more populated during 2006, among the 58  which have more than 20,000 neighbors in the Comunitat are of average size. Among these dozen, only Gandia, which grew by 3.5%, Sant Vicent de Raspeig (3.4%) and Orihuela (3.2%) are big cities.

Onda, with a rate of 7.2%, was the town that grew most among the  58 most populated of the Valencian Community. Other cities who also enjoyed growth were Santa Pola, Mutxamel, Almassora and Calpe.

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You don’t need to travel to Germany to enjoy the essence of a German Oktoberfest. From the 4^th until the 14^th of October in the Alicante community of Calpe beer and sausage and even chucrut will be the stars of this festival.

Next Thursday October 4th you will be able to see the traditional “O’Zapft is!” in other words the opening of the first barrel of beer. From then and for the next ten days, the visitors will drink German beer and will try typical food from this country with a tarp that will be able to hold one million persons.

The ambiance will be completely inspired by the German country, including live music that will bring to life the German folklore.

The first popular Oktoberfest party in Calpe was held in 1988 and since then, it has been celebrated yearly.

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The Peñon de Ifach in Calpe hides more secrets than it appears and because of this archeologist have initiated a second campaign of excavations in the medieval villa of the ifach, inside the natural park.

These works will take about six weeks with the objective of getting to know the climate, vegetation and the natural medium in existence in the medieval times in the Ifach.

The archeologist of the Provisional Archeological Museum (MARQ) are sure they will continue to find remains of old villages along with monuments such as the lost church Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles.

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Summer vacations are almost here and we could all finally start to relax a little bit and enjoy our short time liberty. For young people this time signifies a time to go our and party with their friends and have fun until the wee hours of the night (ok, some of us until the next day).

And now more than ever it is easier to get around to whatever entertainment areas such as Benidorm, Alicante, Playa San Juan, El Campello, Denia and many more thanks to the help of the TRAM which offers a nightly train called the trasnochador for the months of July and August that will get you back home safe.

An excellent idea, but if you don´t make it to these trains on time another great idea is to reserve a hotel and party until you drop.

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