Dénia

Nationally, the majority of fatal incidents still happen on conventional roads, with car occupant deaths falling while pedestrian and cyclist fatalities have unfortunately seen a rise.

Moving slightly further up the coast, a patient at Dénia Hospital has voiced strong frustration after having a long-awaited surgical procedure canceled twice within a single week.

The man, who has lived with an ostomy bag for two and a half years despite initially being told it would only be needed for around twelve months, was first scheduled for surgery on the thirtieth of September.

After going through two days of strict preparation, the operation was called off just the day before.

Since the high-speed train opened in 2010, Valencia is under two hours from Madrid.

And Gandia, Cullera, Denia, Xàbia, this is where a large share of central Spain spends their August holidays.

You also have Benidorm, which has a sort of interesting reputation.

Interesting.

So maybe we should start out in a bigger city where we have all the comforts and then we can take our time going to, you know, look at all these places.

Gandia and Denia were definitely on our list.

In fact, we had further

north, isn't it? Yeah.

Um, and then, uh, quite a few times actually I was racing out there towards the end of Feb, so.

And where's best to stay in Calpe? Is it in Calpe itself? Because I've seen some people stay in Altea or Javea or Denia.

Yeah, you have got a lot of options.

I'd say it, it is personal preference really.

The Valencian naturalist Antonio José Cabanillas recognised that the narrow gorge would make an ideal place for a dam.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the project was revived as a way of providing irrigation water to the agricultural plains around La Rectoria and Denia, particularly after the phylloxera crisis damaged the traditional raisin industry, as I talked about in the previous podcast entitled Valencians to New York.

The proposed irrigation scheme was ambitious.

The original irrigators' community envisaged supplying roughly 10,000 hectares.

He was treated on scene before being taken by ambulance to the specialist burns unit at the Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital.

Meanwhile, over in Dénia in the north of the province, an entire five-story block of flats on Avenida Ramón Ortega had to be evacuated in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Fire crews were called out at one in the morning after a mobile phone left charging on a mattress caught fire in a second-floor bedroom.

The family inside got out safely and warned their neighbors, who were all temporarily cleared from the building.