Qualla: Dénia https://qualla.com/denia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/h/denia-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dénia https://qualla.com/denia Dénia: Introduction https://qualla.com/denia/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most coveted thing in Denia lives in the dark, in a trench of cold water somewhere between the cape at Sant Antoni and the island of Ibiza. It is the gamba roja, the Denia red prawn, a deep-sea crustacean so prized that it can fetch upwards of a hundred euros a kilo at the local market. That a single ingredient can command such a price says a great deal about this town on the Costa Blanca, which in 2015 was named a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, a fishing port that turned its catch into an art.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/h/denia-wk/snbh-d-nia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dénia: The Hundred-Euro Prawn https://qualla.com/denia/ Photo credit Gbeltranp, CC BY 4.0. Food is Denia's calling card, and the red prawn is only the beginning. The town claims a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Quique Dacosta, whose cooking draws diners from across Europe, but its deeper culinary identity lies in humbler, sea-born dishes. There is arros a banda, a r...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/h/denia-wk/snbh-d-nia-the-hundred-euro-prawn.mp3 0:06 2 full Dénia: A Castle Over a Layered Town https://qualla.com/denia/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, Public domain. Long before the Michelin inspectors arrived, Denia was already old. Its history predates the Romans, who knew a settlement here, and reaches back to a place the Greeks may have called Hemeroscopeion; it continued through the long Moorish centuries and never stopped. The castle at...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/h/denia-wk/snbh-d-nia-a-castle-over-a-layered-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Dénia: Between Mountain and Sea https://qualla.com/denia/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0. For all its focus on the water, Denia lives in the shadow of a mountain. The great massif of the Montgo rises just to the south, a limestone whale-back that shelters the town and gives its hikers somewhere to climb; on one side of Denia lies the Mediterranean, on the other the di...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/h/denia-wk/snbh-d-nia-between-mountain-and-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full Dénia: Twenty-Six Kilometres of Coast https://qualla.com/denia/ Photo credit Arabitere, CC0. Denia's shoreline runs for some twenty-six kilometres and changes character as it goes. To the north stretch the sandy beaches of Las Marinas, broad and gentle, made for families and long afternoons in the sun, many of them flying the blue flag for clean water and safe swimming. ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/b/h/denia-wk/snbh-d-nia-twenty-six-kilometres-of-coast.mp3 0:06 5 full Dénia: A Crossroads of the Costa Blanca https://qualla.com/denia/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Denia has always been a place people pass through as well as to. It sits almost exactly halfway between the airports of Alicante and Valencia, an easy hour down the autopista from either, and its harbour sends ferries out to Ibiza and the other Balearic Islands. In summer the tow...

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