Ondara

Ondara municipality
Plaça del Convent
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Valencia
Province :	Alicante
Comarca :	Marina Alta
Coordinates	38 ° 50 ′  N , 0 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 38 ° 50 ′  N , 0 ° 1 ′  E
Height :	36  msnm
Area :	10.41 km²
Residents :	6,894 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	662.25 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E-03760
Municipality number  ( INE ):	03095
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Valencian
Mayor :	José Joaquín Ferrando Soler ( PP ) (2009)
Website :	www.ondara.org
Location of the municipality

Ondara is a small town in the province of Alicante in Spain .

The city was built by the Moors . Jacob I (Aragón) incorporated the city into the Kingdom of Valencia in 1244 , which belonged to the Crown of Aragon .

Worth seeing

Torre del Relotge

The typical Arab construction of the houses and streets can still be seen today. Are worth seeing

• the town hall built in the 17th century,
• the bullring renovated in 1957 ,
• two churches from the 16th and 17th centuries
• the Torre del Relotge (clock tower), the only remnant of the originally four-towered Moorish castle and
• a 150 year old well.

The patron saint of Ondaras is the Virgen de la Soledad (Virgin of Solitude).

Web links

Commons : Ondara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ondara - at the foot of the Sierra Segária

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).