A new year ends and since LaMarinaAlta.com We want to review what happened in the region. We offer you a quick look month by month to remember the great events of 2022.
January
The year began between joys and sorrows. The first news that we knew in the region on January 1 was the birth of the first baby after spending New Year's Eve. However, COVID-19 was still boiling and after the New Year the ups and downs of infections were frequent. The incidence shot up to 1.700 points, registering more than 1.000 cases five days into 2022.
Although trying to lift our spirits, our newsroom revealed the reason for a mysterious unsolicited entry of the Generalitat in the bank account of thousands of people. And the money kept coming, this time with the Rain of Millions to a resident of the Marina Alta who had bought a ticket That made him a millionaire.
But between COVID passports e virus incidence, the boys and girls of Benitatxell received the happy news of the inauguration of a small playground paradise in its municipal area.
February
February began still marked by the pandemic, but the news was increasingly hopeful. The incidence decreased y the restrictions were falling slowly. And although the virus caused Pego to not be able to celebrate his mythical Carnival, the date of the great show that the young dancer Marc Pons was preparing was announced for the occasion after a few months.
Despite this, the town was able to carry out another of its funniest traditions on these dates, the Baixada del Riu Bullent, what, although scarce, it was able to return the laughter to the public and its participants. Also, this month the singer from Pedreguer Sandra Monfort gave a very personal interview to LaMarinaAlta.com after becoming a Revelation Artist at the Carles Santos awards for Valencian music.
March
All the blood rains and the cold drop were the protagonists of March. The Celia storm broke into the small region during the first week of spring weather, causing numerous damage, such as the huge crack in the Vall de Laguar road.
There were several consecutive days of non-stop rain, until in the end the most feared thing ended up happening. The night of March 26 the Gorgos river overflowed in Xàbia and Xaló, after the State Meteorological Agency The alert level in the region will increase to orange. An event that left spectacular images of the mighty river.
During March, the new Traffic and Road Safety Law came into force, when we were able to learn what would lead to new fines since then. Also the COVID quarantines have come to an end and we were able to find out what it was the current situation of the forgotten urbanization Bella Rotja de Pego in which some other movement was noticed in the previous months.
April
We could call it as the month of announcements. On April 1, the Government launched the famous discount of 20 cents per liter of fuel at gas stations across the country, something that will be greatly missed starting tomorrow. The Council of Ministers also announced that the obligation to wear masks indoors would end after Easter.
Ximo Puig, for his part, revealed that the TRAM d'Alacant would reduce its fares to half the price and, at the regional level, El Poble Nou de Benitatxell warned of new access restrictions to the busy Cala del Moraig. To do this, he devised a paid parking system that would work by reading the license plates of visiting vehicles, whose spaces could be reserved through an application.
The anecdotes also made April a busy month. The AEMET stunned the population of the Marina Alta by activating a new alert, but for snow. The towns began to celebrate their patron saint festivities again after the pandemic and the scares returned to the bous al carrer de Benissa. Celebration that also gave cante in Teulada Moraira, where a bull escaped stopping traffic in the area.
In Beniarbeig, a young man was very lucky taking a succulent amount of money of the program The wheel of luck of Antena 3. And, in Pego, now yes, celebrated the carnival in style in the purest Broadway style, but in the Marina Alta.
May
In May, The Marina Salud Company Committee organized three consecutive days of demonstrationss because the management company of the Hospital de Dénia, Grupo Ribera, had refused to update the working conditions of its workers. They demanded a 1,5% salary increase, denounced the alarming flight of professionals and defended the rights of patients who saw their health affected by a clearly deteriorated health service.
This month, Beniarbeig also had some happiness. The Repsol Guide awarded the only road solete of 2022 in the region to a popularly known bar and later it was the scene of a new Guinness Record: 13.000 hits in one hour with a Philippine Eskrima stick.
But one of the most commented news items of the month was, without a doubt, the wedding of the influencer Marta Lozano who celebrated her banquet in style in an XNUMXth century farmhouse from Pegolina.
June
And summer came. And with her Black flag off the coast of the Marina Alta for "unsustainability and urban corruption". Calp was singled out in this way by Ecologistas en Acción due to the Colossus urban project of AR&Hoteles. A hotel establishment with 606 rooms and a meeting room with capacity for 2.500 people next to Las Salinas.
In June, a preliminary study prepared by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) was also presented for the railway connection between Dénia and Gandia. This brought the idea of connecting the Marina Alta with La Safor by means of a tram. A piece of rocket from the Chinese Space Agency crossed the sky of Dénia y the Moors and Christians of Pego returned to conquer the streets during the Fira i Festes of the municipality.
July
If April was the one of announcements, July, in addition to hosting numerous patron saint festivities, was the month that accumulated the most historical events in the region. The train returned to the Gata de Gorgos station cutting the time until it arrives in Dénia, very soon. The new variant of Benissa as it passes through the N-332 was inaugurated after spending 15 years under construction. Y Les Corts approved to start the reversal of the Department of Health of Dénia after pressure from the Compromís group.
And there was still one more day for memory. The mythical Almadrava Rock festival rumbled again next to the Girona river in Els Poblets with La Fúmiga, Esther, Tremp and Maluks.
August
Without a doubt, August shrank the heart of the entire region with a still palpable fire. Les Vall de la Marina Alta began to burn in flames the night of the 13th to the 14th. The fire spread out of control. The nights became harsh by preventing the aerial means from being able to carry out their work, something that gave the monstrous fire an advantage.
Evictions, impotence of the affected neighbors and an endless number of images that shocked the whole world. Up to the Sentinel satellite of the Copernicus program captured from space how an immense column of smoke took over the map about the region.
They were two tireless weeks of fighting against the fire. days after the dry and hot summer atmosphere was refreshed with an expected rain, the Firefighters of the Provincial Consortium of Alicante informed the media that the fire had been declared extinguished. It was on August 27, with a total of 12.150 hectares of land and 100 km of perimeter of forest area devastated by the flames in the green lung of the Marina Alta.
September
During the previous months, the bullfighting celebrations in the Comunitat provoked an intense debate. Since 2015, 2022 has been the year with the most deaths derived from the festivities and, specifically, the Marina Alta, one of the regions that has recorded the most victims in only two summer months. The Bous al carrer were put into question in September and caused the Provincial Council of Alicante decided to considerably increase the amount of money in security allocated to this type of party by 2023.
On the other hand, and as is expected from a proper September, the rain was again in the news and the region said goodbye to the summer season with a yellow alert, What next turned red. For its part, Ondara announced that he would put an end to the long queues at the shopping center roundabout with a new lane diverted to the N-332.
October
The Generalitat Valenciana launched in October the free public transport under its jurisdiction for people under 30 years of age. A measure to combat inflation by lightening the expenses of this part of the citizenry. In addition, he also published the novelties than the Travel Bonus 2023 It brought for next year, all the requirements and the date on which you could start applying.
But good news was also made public for those from Pego. Carreteras confirmed that the Ministry would approve the project to build a flyover between roads N-332 and CV-678, to definitively put an end to the black spot of Hostal Sant Jaume.
In Teulada Moraira took place the TeMoricon, the first manga salon in the municipality to satiate the concerns of the youngest of the town. And, also in October, we had the opportunity to narrate a true story from 1862, in which we met two young people from Dénia who had been the protagonists of one of the bloodiest massacres hidden in the memory of the region.
November
November is the perelló season in the Vall d'Ebo. From the hand of Juanvi Moll, we were able to learn about the product from the moment it is picked from the tree until it reaches the hands of the consumer. A homemade process, which faces the lack of generational relief. Thus, We went to the Fira del Perelló Festival, to verify how, despite the difficulties, small farmers maintain the hope of conserving the crop for many more years.
As well the Fira de Fires returned to Ondara, which gave the region three consecutive weekends of activities and good vibes. And the Pego Football Club surprised us with a great display of agenda to celebrate its 100 years of history in the town.
For its part, the Ministry of Finance and Public Function published the list of the remuneration of the mayors of the country in 2021, letting us know the salary of the mayors of the Marina Alta, town by town. In the same way that the Michelin Gala brought joy to the small region revalidating all his Michelin stars.
December
And finally, in December the pegolí group Smoking Souls surprised us with their withdrawal from the stage, although not without winning the Carles Santos Valencian Music Award for Best Rock Disc. The Valley of Pop delighted with its latest campaign to promote tourism. From the hand of two audiovisual experts, the piece «The taste of the Marina Alta to the Vall de Pop» he took us into the popular and gastronomic culture of the regional area.
And the most recent Christmas brought with it the uncertainty of what would happen to the discount on fuel that we had been enjoying since April. Just a few days ago, the Government announced the new package of anti-crisis measures for next year and cleared the doubts. But The Christmas spirit took over all of us. with the hope that the repopulation of Llombai brought about, a small nucleus of the Vall de Gallinera that had been uninhabited since the 1970s.
Today we say goodbye to 2022, attentive to the news and possibilities that come with 2023. Happy New Year from LaMarinaAlta.com!
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