 21
Aug 2018
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XÀBIA
TODEDICATE PUBLIC SPACE TO MASTER
TOSQUERA VICENTE DE GRÀCIA
A
motion will be proposed at this month's council meeting
to dedicate a public space in the town to Vicente Bisquert
Riera, better known as Vicente de Gràcia. According
to mayor José Chulvi, Vicente is one of the principal
exponents of tosca stonework, the most common building
material used in the architecture of Xàbia.
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21 Aug 2018 |
PROVINCIAL
GOVERNMENT PLEDGES FUNDING TO
SUPPORT SOCIAL SERVICES
The
Department of Social Services in Xàbia will benefit
from funding worth 34,000 euros from the Diputación
de Alicante, the provincial council, which will support
the various social assistance programmes which it manages
in the municipality. The
largest grants will be used to support the economic
aid programmes for families in need (16,636 euros) and
the Home Help Service (11,179 euros).
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 19
Aug 2018 |
MORE
THAN 150 YOUNG SAILORS TAKE
PART IN RODOLFO TOMÁS TROPHY
More
than 150 young sailors took part in the first heats
of the 45th Club Náutico de Jávea Sailing
Week, Rodolfo Tomás Trophy for light and optimist
classes. The youngsters competed in very different weather
conditions over the weekend. Saturday saw heavy
rain and storms with some 100 litres of rain falling
per square metres in just two hours, conditions which
forced the organisers to postpone the sailing until
the afternoon whilst Sunday the sun returned with a
decent wind which allowed good race conditions.
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 16
Aug 2018 |
SAN
VICENTE WILL BE AN OFFICIAL
FIESTA DAY IN XÀBIA IN 2019
From
next year June 24th - Día de Sant Joan - will
be a fiesta day throughout the Comunidad Valenciana,
a decision made by the regional government in response
to a historical claim by the province of Alicante to
place its major fiesta, the Fogueres de Sant Joan, on
par with that of Valencia's Las Fallas which honour
Sant Josep every March. Xàbia celebrates Sant
Joan with almost two weeks of festivities during June.
As a result, Xàbia has decided to make 'Lunes
de San Vicente' an official fiesta day for
2019.
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 16
Aug 2018 |
TENDERS
HAVE TRIPLED SINCE NEW PUBLIC
CONTRACTS LAW HAS COME INTO
FORCE
The
Ayuntamiento de Xàbia has been immersed in the
process of adapting to the new Contracts Law ("Ley
de Contratos"), a regulation that minimises the
tendency to use smaller contracts which until now have
been the regular options for Administrations with budgets
like Xàbia and with limited providers to approach.
The new regulation calls for all services to be planned
on an annual basis and contracted through public tender,
a procedure using steps and deadlines that reduces flexibility
for the administration.
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 16
Aug 2018
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RESIDENTS
JOIN TOGETHER TO HELP CLEAN
UP XÀBIA
Fed
up with the amount of rubbish being thrown onto open
spaces across the town by irresponsible citizens, a
group of residents from Xàbia have got together
to encourage a community clean-up to improve the
image of these zones. Despite the energy-sapping hot
weather, this small band of volunteers have already
cleared several zones of rubbish and other detritus,
including dog mess left by owners who refuse to take
it away and dispose of it properly, instead leaving
it for others to have to deal with.
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|  15
Aug 2018
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FESTES
DE MARE DE DEU DE LORETO 2018
- FULL PROGRAMME
The
full programme for the forthcoming 2018
edition of the Festes de Mare de Déu de
Loreto has been released, celebrations in
the port which will kick off on Saturday
25th August with the formal presentation
and continue for two weeks with live music,
dancing, parades, flower offering, correfocs
and the controversial 'Bous a la Mar' before
the spectacular fireworks brings the festivities
- and effectively summer 2018 - to a stunning
end on Saturday 8th September.
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15 Aug 2018
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RESIDENTS
LAUNCH PETITION AGAINST MUNTANYAR
II BEACH BAR DEVELOPMENT
Xàbia
residents living in the vicinity of Muntanyar II, the
rocky coastline between Playa del Arenal and Cala Blanca,
have launched a petition to fight a proposal to build
a beach bar development on a vacant plot in front of
Calle Patrai and the apartment blocks of Montañar
and Karine.
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13 Aug 2018
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NEW
PARKING SYSTEM TO BE IMPLEMENTED
IN HISTORIC CENTRE AND PORT
Starting
next Tuesday 21st August, several specific areas in
the historic area and port of Xàbia will become
limited parking zones. At the request of the business
associations in each of the areas, the Ayuntamiento
will be bringing in a system which will encourage parking
rotation and free up spaces for those who visit the
zones for shopping and to conduct their business. In
total some 200 spaces will be subject to the new restrictions.
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13 Aug 2018
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FREE
SPANISH COURSES FOR FOREIGN
RESIDENTS RETURN IN SEPTEMBER
Councillor
Doris Courcelles (Resident Care) has announced that
the Ayuntamiento de Xàbia, in collaboration with
the Diputación de Alicante, is offering registered
foreign residents of the town the chance to improve
their Spanish skills with an accelerated language course
during September. Courcelles
explained that there will be two levels of training
available, a basic course and an intermediate course,
and both will be offered from Monday 3rd September until
Thursday 27th September.
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|  09
Aug 2018
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FESTES
DEL PORTITXOL 2018 - A WEEKEND
OF TRADITION
Hot
on the heels of the festivities of La Plana, the popular
and modest fiestas of the summer continue this weekend
with the celebrations of Portitxol, a weekend of music,
tradition and community spirit amongst "portixoleros"
as well as friends who want to accompany them. These
traditional fiestas were revived nine years ago
after a 50-year hiatus and have been essentially a celebration
of the traditions of the Valencian country with the
dancing, the music, the comedy and, of course, the
language.
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09 Aug 2018
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PP
COMPLAINS OF POOR MANAGEMENT
OF STREET LIGHTING IN XÀBIA
The
Partido Popular of Xàbia has
issued a statement which accuses
the governing body at the Ayuntamiento
de Xàbia of poor management
of street lighting as several
streets across the municipality
have been left in darkness during
the night: "Right in the middle of the
summer season, street lighting is failing throughout the town. This creates a
bad image and a gives a feeling of insecurity to both residents and visitors. The
Populars have already condemned this situation, at the beginning of the summer,
yet, far from being solved, more problems are being created every day.
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08 Aug 2018
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CYRILLE
AIMEÉ CLOSES ANOTHER SUCCESSUL
XÀBIA JAZZ FESTIVAL
Some
4,000 people attended three nights of great music offered
by the 2018 edition of Xàbia Jazz International
Festival. Councillor Quico Moragues (Culture) expressed
his satisfaction with the response of the public
to one of the most important musical festivals of the
year with an average of between 1,000 and 1,500 people
per evening. And such success has encouraged his department
to start thinking already about the organisation for
the 2019 edition and to continue betting on quality
shows to full summer nights in Xàbia with culture.
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08 Aug 2018
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COMPLAINT
OF DOGS ON BEACHES DESPITE PROHIBITIONS
The
Arenal Residents Association has received a complaint
from a resident who requested it to be made public as
follows: "In
spite of the signs that expressly prohibit the bathing
of dogs, the Muntanyar I and Punta del Arenal zones
have become regular places where many owners take their
pets to bathe despite these areas being places where
children and adults also visit to swim."
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 07
Aug 2018
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FIESTAS
LORETO 2018 - DECORATED STREETS
COMPETITION
Residents
and businesses are being invited to contribute to fill
the streets of the port with colour during the forthcoming
celebrations in honour of Mare de Déu de Loreto
which begin with the formal presentation on Saturday
25th August. The Xàbia Port Business Association
is promoting three contests which aims to encourage
the colourful decoration of shop windows and fronts,
balconies and entire streets and thus enhancing the
fiestas by sprucing up the fishing zone during the celebrations.
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 01
Aug 2018 |
IMPROVED
PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK PROPOSED
FOR MARINA ALTA
Details
have been revealed concerning proposals
to improve the regional public transport
system in the Marina Alta to offer an much
better integrated network and greater
accessibility to the population of the region
which numbers some 167,000. The new proposal
outlined by the Director-General of Public
Works, Transport and Mobility at the Generalitat
Valenciana has been entitled 'CV-201 MARINA
ALTA' and aims to create an integrated
network providing better connections between
municipalities ...
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