Javea Parador (Costa Blanca) (****)		Parador de Javea

The Parador itself is comfortable, and the gardens and pool are lovely. The bedrooms have balconies overlooking the gardens and the Arenal beach where guests can have a evening drink and admire the sunset. The restaurant has good (not marvellous) food, with a lunchtime buffet serving Spanish Mediterranean dishes (paella, fried fish, prawns and other seafood) and local wines. The Marina Alta is the wine-producing area of the province of Alicante, notably sweet wines.

The landscape along this area of the Costa Blanca is sometimes quite breathtaking and is a kind of mixture of what you expect from the Costa Blanca and the Costa Brava, blended into one. The road from Javea to Denia winds round tall mountains, and all along the coast there are beautiful hidden beaches. Inevitably the area has become too populated, and there are hundreds of villas dotting the mountainside (many of them belong to euroresidentes), but thankfully there are non of the high blocks of holiday apartments and hotels which are characteristic of other areas of the Costa Blanca. Many of the euroresidents who live in this area have small businesses, such as parrot-rearing (!), ceramics or ecological restaurants.

Javea Parador is near some of the province of Alicante's best restaurants, many of which have national aclaim. We especially reccommend El Girasol (Moraira); El Poblet, La Casa Pepa (Denia); La Seu de Teulada, La Sort (Teulada); Al Zaraq, serving Arab food and Casa Cantó (Benissa).

For more detailed information on other sights, hotels and restaurants in the province see Guide to Alicante.

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