Cocentaina tourist information
Cocentaina
If you stand with your back to the Mediterranean any where on the Costa Blanca, and look inland you will see mountains, some close, some distant. Some residents know what lies beyond, many don’t, and many think there is a primitive world of donkey tracks and rocks. In actual fact it is a very green world with varying types of terrain, modern cities and good roads. Consider Alcoy, 300 years ago, it was a wealthy city of textile manufacturers, while Benidorm was a poor fishing village. Alcoy still is a modern an up to date textile area, the centre of the textile trade for Spain.
COCENTAINA , is located in the shores of the rio Serpis, This is on the slopes of a Mountain range called Mariola-Pico de Montcabrer: 1390 m. altitude. Head of the region of the Comtat, with 24 municipalities covering 378.9 Km2, and a population of more than 25,000 inhabitants. Distance to Valencia 110 km and 60 km of Alicante. One communicates with these capitals through state highway N340, with daily regular lines to Valencia (train and bus) and to Alicante (bus). Through the new A36 motorway The area has now become very accessible from Alicante. It has a climate of transition between the mediterraneo and the continental one. The greater one indicates of precipitations is registered in the months of September, October and November and in the months of March and April.