{{More citations needed|date=September 2010}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Gandia | settlement_type = [[Municipalities of Spain|City and municipality]] | other_name = {{lang|es|'''Gandía'''}} | native_name = | image_skyline = {{Photomontage | photo1a = Gandia, plaça del Prat.JPG | photo1b = Gandia, avinguda del marqués de Campo de nit.jpg | photo2a = Passarel·la del Passeig Germanies de Gandia.JPG | photo3a = Carrer de santa Clara de Gandia.JPG | photo3b = Edifici del Banc de València, Gandia.JPG | photo4b =1. El Morabet (pla de Marxuquera, Safor, País Valencià).jpg | spacing = 2 | border = 0 | color = #F2F2F2 | size = 300 }} | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = Bandera de Gandia.svg | image_shield = Escut de Gandia.svg | nickname = | motto = {{lang|la|Sic luceant opera tua}} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 4 | mapframe-marker = city |map_caption = Location of Gandia | pushpin_map = Spain Province of Valencia#Spain Valencia#Spain | subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]] | subdivision_name = {{Flag|Spain}} | subdivision_type1 = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous community]] | subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Valencian Community}} | subdivision_type2 = [[Provinces of Spain|Province]] | subdivision_name2 = [[File:Escut de la Província de València.svg|15px]] [[Valencia (province)|Valencia / València]] | subdivision_type3 = [[Comarcas of Spain|Comarca]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Safor]] | subdivision_type4 = [[Judicial districts of Spain|Judicial district]] | subdivision_name4 = Gandia | seat_type = <!-- [[Capital (political)|Capital]] --> | seat = | coordinates = {{Coord|38|58|N|0|11|W|region:ES_type:city|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | elevation_m = 22 | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 60.8 | established_title = <!-- Founded --> | established_date = | population_as_of = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} | population_footnotes = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} | population_total = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_total}} | population_demonym = Gandian <br /> • {{lang|ca-valencia|gandià}}, -''ana'' ([[Valencian language|Val.]]) <br /> • {{lang|es|gandiense}} ([[Spanish language|Sp.]]) {{Infobox | child=yes | rowclass1 = multirow | label1 = Official language(s) | data1 = {{hlist|[[Valencian language|Valencian]]|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]}} | rowclass2 = mergedrow | label2 = [[Linguistic predominance (Valencian Community)|Linguistic area]] | data2 = [[Valencian language|Valencian]] }} | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]] | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | utc_offset_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in Spain|Postal code]] | postal_code = 46700–46702, 46730 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in Spain|Dialling code]] | area_code = | leader_title = [[Alcalde]] (Mayor) | leader_name = José Manuel Prieto | leader_party = [[Socialist Party of the Valencian Country|PSPV-PSOE]] | website = {{Official website|https://www.gandia.org/|www.gandia.org}} | module = | footnotes = }}
'''Gandia''',{{efn|Pronunciation of Gandia: <br /> {{IPA|ca-valencia|ɡanˈdi.a|lang}}}} also known as {{lang|es|'''Gandía'''}},{{efn|Pronunciation of ''Gandía'' (unofficial): <br /> {{IPA|es|ɡanˈdi.a|lang}}}} is a [[city]] and [[municipality]] in the [[Valencian Community]], eastern [[Spain]] on the [[Mediterranean]]. Gandia is located on the [[Costa de Valencia]], {{Convert|65|km|mi|abbr=out}} south of [[Valencia]] and {{convert|110|km|0|abbr=on}} north of [[Alicante]]. Vehicles can access the city through [[N-322 road (Spain)|road N-332]] and [[Autopista AP-7|AP-7 highway]].
Gandia operated as an important cultural and commercial centre in the 15th and 16th centuries: in the 15th century it had a university. It was home to several important people, including the poet [[Ausiàs March]] (1400-1459) and the novelist [[Joanot Martorell]] (1410-1465). It is perhaps best known for the Borja or [[Borgia]], through their family [[noble title|title]], [[Duke of Gandia]] (originally created in 1399).
{{As of | 2020}} Gandia is one of the largest coastal towns in Spain, with a population of over 200,000 during summer, and a centre of commerce and tourism in its region. There are two main zones, Gandia City, which has all the historical monuments, commercial activity, and shopping, and Gandia beach, which has apartments and summer residences used during the summer season. The bars and nightclubs are concentrated in the beach area. As is normal for Spain, nightlife does not begin until well after midnight. The beach and town are actually some {{convert|2|km|0|abbr= on}} apart, which succeeds in separating summer tourism from day-to-day living.
==Culture== For culture, there are literary contests, the Summer University (''Universitat d'Estiu''), the International Festival of Classical Music and art exhibitions; sports include water, golf, tennis and hiking. {{citation needed|date=March 2019}} Gandia hosts the annual Cortoons Gandia animation festival in April, which celebrates international animation and short films.<ref>[https://festhome.com/f/cortoons-gandia Cortoons Gandia at Festhome.com] Retrieved 11 March 2019</ref><ref>[http://www.cortoons.es/prova2017/ Cortoons Gandia Official site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022152948/http://www.cortoons.es/prova2017/ |date=2021-10-22 }} Retrieved 11 March 2019</ref>
===Tourism=== [[File:Gandia Beach.jpg|thumb|right|Beach in Gandia]] With its long, wide, golden, sandy beaches Gandia is one of the major tourist destinations in Spain. Traditionally Gandia's tourism has a domestic base, with the majority coming from Madrid, although in recent years it has been an increasingly popular destination for international tourists, mainly French, German and British.<ref name=gandia>[http://www.gandia.be Gandia.be].</ref>
There are some popular Spanish restaurants around the beach.
Gandia has a number of shopping facilities including shopping malls and chain supermarkets like [[Carrefour]], [[Carrefour Express]], [[Lidl]], [[Mercadona]] and [[Aldi]].<ref name=alicante>[https://www.alicante-spain.com/gandia.html Gandia]</ref>
====Main sights==== * [[Collegiate Basilica of Gandia]] * [[Ducal Palace of Gandia]] * [[Convent of Santa Clara of Gandia]] * [[Archaeological Museum of Gandia]] * [[Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba]] * [[Route of the Borgias]] * [[Route of the Monasteries of Valencia]] * [[Route of the Valencian classics]]
==Geography== [[File:L'Ullal Gran o de l'Estany, Gandia.jpg|thumb|right|A lake in the marjal]] Gandia has an important regional wetland with an extension above {{Convert|1.2|km2|sqmi|abbr=out}} in the outskirts of the city, called Marjal de La Safor.<ref>https://www.gandia.org/web/guest/marjal-de-gandia {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> This natural area is home to several water plants such as [[Lemna gibba]], [[Lemna minor]], and specially many species of water lily plants, such as [[Nymphaea alba]], [[Utricularia australis]] and [[Potamogeton fluitans]]. Underwater plants also exist, such as [[Myriophyllum]] and [[Ceratophyllum]]. Native land plants are mostly formed of various [[Phragmites]] species, [[Typha domingensis]], various [[Scirpus]] and [[Cladium]] species.
Various species of palm trees are naturalised in the area, and they are also found widely in the marjal due to seed dispersion, either wind or animal dispersion. The most common naturalised palm trees in the area are [[Phoenix dactylifera]] (African date palm), [[Washingtonia filifera var. robusta]] (Mexican fan palm) and [[Phoenix canariensis]] (Canary Island date palm). There are some specimens of the native palm tree [[Chamaerops humilis]] (European palmetto), although very few compared to the naturalised species.
This natural zone is also rich in fauna, with many species of birds, fish, amphibian and reptiles, with some mammal species. The most common species of birds are [[Tachybaptus ruficollis]], [[Anas platyrhynchos]], [[Falco tinnunculus]], [[Fulica atra]] and [[Gallinula chloropus]] amongst many other species. The most common fish and amphibian species are [[Cobitis maroccana]], [[Anguilla anguilla]], [[Syngnathus abaster]], [[Bufo bufo]], [[Bufo calamita]] and [[Rana perezi]].
The most common reptiles are turtles, with a native species ([[Emys orbicularis]]) which is in critical condition due to the heavy expansion of the [[Trachemys scripta scripta]] and [[Trachemys scripta elegans]], most known as [[Florida]] turtles, which are introduced species in [[Spain]]. Other species of reptiles are [[Tarentola mauritanica]], [[Podarcis hispanicus]] and [[Natrix maura]] amongst others.
The most common and native mammals are the [[European rabbits]] ([[Oryctolagus cuniculus]]), the European hedgehog ([[Erinaceus europaeus]]), the greater white-toothed shrew Musaranya comuna ([[Crocidura russula]]), the European bat ([[Pipistrellus pipistrellus]]) and the wild hog ([[Sus scrofa]]) amongst others.
===Climate=== The climate of Gandia is [[mediterranean climate|Mediterranean]] ([[Köppen climate classification]]: ''Csa'') with mild winters, and hot summers. The annual average temperature is between 18-19 °C. Gandia receives about 600mm of rain per year, the majority falling from September to November. [[Autumn]] is the wettest season.
{{Weather box |location= Meteorological station of the beach of Gandia, [[Province of Valencia|Valencia province]], [[Spain]].) |metric first= yes |single line= yes |Jan record high C= 29.6 |Feb record high C= 29.8 |Mar record high C= 34.2 |Apr record high C= 32.4 |May record high C= 40.4 |Jun record high C= 40 |Jul record high C= 39.7 |Aug record high C= 40.8 |Sep record high C= 38.3 |Oct record high C= 38.1 |Nov record high C= 33.1 |Dec record high C= 26.1 |year record high C= 40.8 |Jan high C= 19.68 |Feb high C= 19.03 |Mar high C= 21.07 |Apr high C= 23.35 |May high C= 25.57 |Jun high C= 29.28 |Jul high C= 32.33 |Aug high C= 32.05 |Sep high C= 30.85 |Oct high C= 28.79 |Nov high C= 22.32 |Dec high C= 19.26 |year high C= |Jan mean C= 14.37 |Feb mean C= 14.27 |Mar mean C= 15.91 |Apr mean C= 18.30 |May mean C= 18.90 |Jun mean C= 23.95 |Jul mean C= 27.03 |Aug mean C= 27.02 |Sep mean C= 25.82 |Oct mean C= 23.17 |Nov mean C= 17.82 |Dec mean C= 13.54 |year mean C= |Jan low C= 9.06 |Feb low C= 9.5 |Mar low C= 10.77 |Apr low C= 13.26 |May low C= 14.69 |Jun low C= 18.63 |Jul low C= 21.74 |Aug low C= 21.99 |Sep low C= 20.8 |Oct low C= 17.45 |Nov low C= 13.3 |Dec low C= 8.09 |year low C= |Jan record low C= 3.1 |Feb record low C= 2.2 |Mar record low C= 3.9 |Apr record low C= 7.7 |May record low C= 8.4 |Jun record low C= 14 |Jul record low C= 17.9 |Aug record low C= 17.3 |Sep record low C= 14.8 |Oct record low C= 7 |Nov record low C= 4 |Dec record low C= 2.4 |year record low C= 2.2 |Jan precipitation days= 4 |Feb precipitation days= 3 |Mar precipitation days= 4 |Apr precipitation days= 4 |May precipitation days= 4 |Jun precipitation days= 2 |Jul precipitation days= 1 |Aug precipitation days= 1 |Sep precipitation days= 3 |Oct precipitation days= 4 |Nov precipitation days= 4 |Dec precipitation days= 4 |year precipitation days= 38 |Jan snow days= 0 |Feb snow days= 0 |Mar snow days= 0 |Apr snow days= 0 |May snow days= 0 |Jun snow days= 0 |Jul snow days= 0 |Aug snow days= 0 |Sep snow days= 0 |Oct snow days= 0 |Nov snow days= 0 |Dec snow days= 0 |year snow days= 0 |source 1= The information for the extreme temperatures are for the last 3 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IVALENCI47|title=Personal Weather Station Dashboard | Weather Underground|website=www.wunderground.com}}</ref> The rain data are for the nearest station which records rain data to Gandia, because the weather station of Gandia only records temperatures.<ref>[http://www.yr.no/place/Spain/Valencia/Benidorm/statistics.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518105721/http://www.yr.no/place/Spain/Valencia/Benidorm/statistics.html |date=2015-05-18 }} - Estación climática de la Playa de Gandia (Weather Underground) y yr.no</ref> }}
[[File:Canyís a l'ullal de l'Estany, Gandia.jpg|thumb|right|Vegetation with [[Phragmites]]]]
==Sports== The local football team is [[CF Gandía]].
==International relations== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Spain}}
===Twin towns – Sister cities=== Gandia is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with: *{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Laval, Mayenne|Laval]] in [[France]]
==Public transport== Gandia has an extensive bus network and two [[Renfe]] stations that connect the city with [[Valencia]] (despite the fact that one of them only has three daily services). Buses in the Gandia area are operated by the company La Marina Gandiense and L'Urbanet. There are two La Marina Gandiense lines: line 1 that connects Gandia with the nearby municipality of [[Real de Gandia]] (and sometimes with the University) and line 2, which connects Gandia to the beach, which is 5 km (3,107 miles) away from the city. In L’Urbanet, there are three lines, although one of them is divided, which would be counted as four. The following lines are:
Line 3: Circular. Starts and ends at the Renfe station in Gandia city
Line 4: Gandia train station - San Francisco de Borja hospital
Line 5: This line has the peculiarity that despite being the same line it makes two totally different routes, which are: * Gandia train station - Marenys de Rafalcaid * Gandia train station - Marchuquera
There are also bus lines that connect Gandia with nearby villages such as [[Daimuz]], [[Guardamar de la Safor]], [[Oliva]], etc. There are also some buses which connect Gandia with cities such as [[Madrid]], [[Salamanca]], [[Medina del Campo]], [[Tordesillas]], [[Teruel]], [[Zaragoza]], [[Bilbao]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Barcelona]], [[Alicante]] and [[Andalucía]].
Referring to train services, Gandia has two train stations which connect Gandia with Valencia. Both of them are terminal of line [[C-1 (Cercanías Valencia)|C-1 from Cercanías Valencia]]. The following stations are: * Gandia * Platja i Grau de Gandia (this one gives service to Gandia’s beach, causing only three daily trains to reach this station)
==Notable people== <!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---> <!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---> *[[León de Arroyal]] (1755–1813), intellectual, poet, and writer *[[Elísabet Benavent]] (born 1984), romance writer *[[Pablo Pallares Marzo]] (born 1987), footballer * [[Diana Morant]] (born 1980), Spanish politician and [[Ministry of Science (Spain)|Minister of Science and Innovation]] (2021-present)
==See also== * [[Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba]] * [[Collegiate Basilica of Gandia]] * [[Ducal Palace of Gandia]] * [[Ferrocarril Alcoy Gandia]] * [[Route of the Borgias]] * [[Route of the Monasteries of Valencia]] * [[Route of the Valencian classics]] * [[List of municipalities in Valencia]]
==Notes== {{Notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} {{wikivoyage|Gandia}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20190202081233/https://www.gandia.org/ Town hall of Gandia] *[https://www.visitgandia.com Official Tourism of Gandia] *[http://www.valenciacostablanca.com/valencia-province/gandia/ Gandia Information]
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