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El Fondó de les Neus

Fondó de les Neus, el/Hondón de las Nieves, El Vinalopó Mitjà, Alicante

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El Fondó de les Neus

Village · Fondó de les Neus, el/Hondón de las Nieves, El Vinalopó Mitjà, Alicante

El Fondó de les Neus, officially El Fondó de les Neus/Hondón de las Nieves, is a municipality of the Vinalopó Mitjà comarca, in the province of Alicante, with 2,738 inhabitants, set in a small valley protected by the Sierras of Crevillente and Algayat, amid pines, almond trees, olive trees and vineyards. It was settled mainly by colonists who arrived from Monòver between the early 18th century and 1830, and it fell under the jurisdiction of Aspe until 1839, when it was constituted as a municipality together with neighbouring Hondón de los Frailes, from which it separated definitively in 1926. Its parish church of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, in Baroque style, was built in 1746 on the site of the old ermita of San Pedro. In the Rollo cave, an Upper Palaeolithic site has been documented.

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