Hotels in Ondara

Ondara

Ondara is a town of about 7,700 people in the Marina Alta comarca of the province of Alicante, 85 km from the provincial capital. Its main core lies on the river Girona, five kilometres from the coast. The land is mostly flat, and the foothills of the Serra de Segaria are the only heights, rising to 450 metres in the north-west. The climate is typically Mediterranean, with mild winters, hot summers and a mean annual temperature of 18 °C. Caves on the Segaria hold traces of settlement from the Palaeolithic, and an Iberian village stood on its summit. The clock tower is the only one left standing of the four towers of the old Muslim castle. The town hall occupies a 17th-century building raised by the Minim friars. Their convent church next to it keeps the image of the Virgen de la Soledad, the patron saint, whose festivities take place on the second weekend of July. Ondara borders Dénia, Pedreguer, Beniarbeig, Benimeli and El Verger. It suits travellers who want a quiet, well-connected base close to Dénia and the northern Costa Blanca beaches.