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Campeones de Alegrías will organize a charity football match in Benidorm

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The Campeones de Alegrías charity, whose president is Adans Peres, will organize a football match between Spain and Italy to raise funds for the construction of a new dolphinarium. The ultimate goal is to extend the number of children who will benefit from the treatments of dolphin-assisted therapy.

Dolphin-assisted therapy is very beneficial for children affected by general developmental disorders such as, cerebral palsy or genetic disorders such as Downs Syndrome.

The match will take place at the Benidorm football field the month of June. The orginizers estimate that they will be able to accommodate a group of at least 15,000 people, and if it were necessary, 5,000 more. The poster of the event is still unknown.

source Grupo Noticias

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Benidorm was the honeymoon destination for the writers Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Thanks to the work of Pasqual Almiñana Orozco, a professor of literature and author of several works on toponymy of the Marina Baixa, we recently discovered that the English poet Ted Hughes (1939-1998) and the American writer Sylvia Plath (Boston 1932-London 1963) enjoyed their honeymoon in Benidorm, specifically in 1956.
This curious research, has allowed us to see what Benidorm was like before the tourist boom. Straight from the mouth of Sylvia Plath, Benidorm was a beloved town: “As soon as I found that little town … after an hour of travel by bus through deserts of red sand hills, olive groves and scrub all so typical, and I saw that sparkling blue sea, the clean curve of its beaches, its immaculate streets and houses-all with a small town and relumbrante dream, I felt instinctively, like Ted, that this was our place…”.

The writer couple got married June 19th, 1956 and their honeymoon took them to Paris, Madrid and Benidorm. They had two sons and separated in 1962. Sylvia Plath committed suicide shortly there after in London.

The couple stayed in his summer residence, which is now on the streets of Tomas Ortuño. This route, then was almost on the outskirts and offered peace and quiet to write and even mountain views by the absence of apartment towers.
source El País

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Magic Costa Blanca hires Poty to direct their dance academy

Monday, January 28th, 2008

We told you a couple of weeks ago that the hotel group Magic Costa Blanca has incorporated dance classes to its entertainment offers. Well, the hotel chain has pur all its effort in this initiative and they have hired Poty to direct the dance academy.

Magic Costa Blanca has designed a fantastic world centered in magic. In which the clients who visit their establisments can learn magic in their School of Magical Arts in teh Alfaz Castel and in the the Residential houses ordered by magic to be found in hotels of the group.

But this world of fantasy focused towards kids, needed to be completed with an initiative for adults. The answer is dance and the best at this specialty is Poty. A person who will take the Magic Costa Blanca brand this year and the dance academy. Poty assures that we are all going to dance.

The Magic Costa Blanca clients will learn two choreographies in two different style each week and they will get to enjoy the great dance show-contest in each hotel where they will compete realizing the choreographyes designed by Poty: the teachers, the students and the employees of the hotel.

Source jgarciacuenca

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Magic Costa Blanca incorporates dance clases to its entertainment offers

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The Hotel group Magic Costa Blanca has incorporated a type of entertainment for its hotel guests. This new offer is dance classes for its clients. The hotel chain and the Friends of dance Association of Valencia have joined forces to create the “Magic Dance Academy”, a dance school that allows clients of the hotel group to learn different dance disciplines.This academy gives different variety of dance classes such as, ballroom dance, latin dance, or line dancing. This lessons are given in all the hotel chains one day a week at the hands of professionals.

As something new thanks to an agreement between Magic Costa Blanca has realized with teh association we could start to see tango dancing everywhere, the hotel will also leave its doors open to welcome all the dance lovers of Benidorm to join in the fun with he dance professionals of the Valencian community.

The friends dance association of Valencia will be present the Hotel Cristal Park in Benidorm during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of February realizing exhibition and classes for the clients of the Magic group and all those interested in the dance world.

Source Levante EMV

Photo flickr from kamoriaha

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Angel Palomar´s architectural landscape triumphs in the Costa Blanca

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

The other day I rea dan interesting article about the work of landscape architect Angel Palomar. His passion for plants and his canvas are the facades of the Mediterranean Costa Blanca.This artist has been working on his profession for 35 years and his main works are the bioclimatic houses, in order words small havens where housing is part of the landscape and plants and trees provide optimal conditions for achieving a microclimate with excellent environments cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Their houses are marked because the roofs are replaced by tapestries covered herbs, native vegetation and palmaceas. The goal is to create a human and natural habitat.

Another feature is the flat roofs that are up to a meter high. They are covered by geotextile, and are filled with compost and volcanic lava base are made for plantations.

These covered gardens are what give the shelter a microclimatic condition that are very suitable, since the vegetation takes advantage of the shadow areas that create and a perfect home situation. Most of his projects are in Xàbia, Altea and Moraira.

Source las provincias

Photo flickr from Hector Milla

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Benidorm closes the year with an occupation rate close to 82%

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

With 2007 finalized, the touristic balance of Benidorm has been very positve. The tourist capital of the Costa blanca has maintained its promise to be the best bet for the sun and beach, and has lead the Costa Blanca in tourist percentages.

In 2007 Benidorm registered an occupation médium of 82 percent, according to data provided by the hotel patron Hosbec. UIT a médium anual 82 percent, the Benidorm hotels registerd an occupation of two points supererios to to those of 2006, when they had only reached 79.6%.

Although, the margin in Elche has also increased since last year, the other cities did not seem to increase they points, leaving Benidorm to head the group once again.

Source ABC

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Benidorm, Denia, and Elda Alcoy, cities that do not impede their growth

Friday, January 4th, 2008

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.

Source Levante EMV-Way

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A million and a half kilos of grapes will be consumed to celebrate New Year’s Eve

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

The custom to say goodbye to the old year with 12 grapes started around 1909, a year where there was an excellent grape harvest and so it was believed that by consuming the 12 grapes at midnight you would have luck for the year to come.

The custom, which many believe brings them luck in the grapes are eating one by one at the last 12 seconds of the year, with a wish for every grape has had many changes, but in the end eating the 12 grapes still stands still.

Most of the grapes consumed on New Years proceed from the Vinalopo (Alicante) area, thanks to the technical packaging tradition which allows the grapes to reach the end of December very fresh and ready for consumption.

The packaging allows the grape to be protected against different climatic conditions and helps the development of a softer skin as well as delay the aging process.

So whether we eat the grapes fresh, from a can, with skin, without, with seeds, or without, grapes once again will be with us to say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new year.

Happy 2008!!
Source Terra Actualidad

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Only one in every three religious temples in Benidorm is Catholic

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

The Benidorm cultural and religious diversity is extraordinary, for instance, only one of every three religious cultural centers located in the city belongs to a Catholic church.

The majority of religions in Benidorm are Lutheran, Jehovah witness, Calvinist and evangelists, all of these protestant.

The religious cult centers in Benidorm has multiplied in the past years but the catholic centers that use to form the majority in Benidorm have now come to be the minority.

The main reason for this is the immigration of people from many different countries who bring their different religions and have opted to create spiritual cultural places in their new homeland.

Catholic Orthodox celebrate their weekly ceremonies in the church of the Buen Pastor. Muslims and Jews have also found places of prayer in this tourist city.

There are three authorized mosques in the municipal surroundings, and the Jews have their synagogue in the Belin street.

The latest religion building to obtain its permit is the Romanian Evangelist church in the l’Aigüera avenue.

Source Terra

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The air quality in Benidorm is excellent

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

The tourists and neighbours of Benidorm could feel safe, knowing that the air quality they are breathing throughout the city is excellent, according to a report prepared by the Counsel of Environment.

Benidorm authorities have stated that the levels of sulphur dioxides and nitrogen, carbon monoxide and lead do not exceed the levels that are set by the current regulation.

The environment measurer, located in the ecopark of the city, reflects that the quality of air “is very far” from any contaminated parameter.

The contamination atmosphere measure realizes daily air registers in real time and transfers the information to a data reception centre named the Centre of Atmospheric Control of the Generalitat.

Source Informacion

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