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Guardamar del Segura () or briefly Guardamar is a municipality of the province of Alicante located at the mouth of the river Segura in southern Valencia (autonomous community), Spain. It is a Mediterranean resort, with a large pine forest abutting an 11-km-long white sand beach. Historically an area of fishermen and farmers, Guardamar del Segura is the southernmost point where Valenciano (a dialect of Catalan) is spoken. A Phoenician colony, called Herna by Roman geographer Avienus in his book ''Ora Maritima'' was the first settlement near the mouth of Segura river,〔Bierling, Marilyn R. and Gitin,Seymour (2002). ''The Phoenicians in Spain: an archaeological review of the eighth-sixth centuries B.C.E. : a collection of articles translated from Spanish''. Eisenbrauns, p. 124. ISBN 1-57506-056-6〕 In Spanish, "guardar" means "safekeeping" and "mar" means "sea", and this is another possible basis for its current name. Guardamar is the southernmost Catalan-speaking town and in 1991 41.8% of the town's residents knew how to speak it.〔(Cens de 1991 )〕 Guardamar hosts local festivals like ''Moros i Cristians'', ''L'Encantà'', and ''Fogueres de Sant Joan'', which commemorate its history. ==Population== The INE (Spanish Census) of 2006 showed that the city had 14,261 residents. By January 2011 this figure had reached 16,863 of which only 10,051 were Spanish. The most prominent nationalities in 2011 were: |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guardamar del Segura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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