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La Nucia

Nucia, la, La Marina Baixa, Alicante

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La Nucia

Village · Nucia, la, La Marina Baixa, Alicante

La Nucia is a municipality in La Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, north of Benidorm, with 19,121 inhabitants (INE 2025). Its name comes from the Arabic Naziha, “delightful”; it was a hamlet given in 1271 by James I to Beltrán de Bellpuig, and at the start of the 17th century it formed part of the barony of Polop. It became an independent municipality in 1705, and during the 18th century its parish church, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, was built. Its population, which reached 4,998 inhabitants in 1845, fell to 1,493 in 1922 due to emigration to Algiers and Oran, and recovered from the 1970s onwards. It preserves the hermitage of Saint Raphael, completed in 1888, and the hermitage of Saint Vincent Ferrer, from 1803.

Photo: Jose Luis Campos (Public domain)

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