Daimús

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Daimús
Location
Coordinates : 38°58′5″N, 0°9′16″W
Time zone : CET (GMT +1)
- summer : CEST (GMT +2)
General information
Native name Daimús (Valencian)
Spanish name Daimuz
Administration
Country Spain
Autonomous Community Valencian Community
Province Valencia
Comarca Safor
Geography
Land Area 3.15 km²
Altitude 6 m AMSL
Population
Population 2,652 (2006)
Density 842 hab./km² (2006)

Daimús (also known as Daimuz or Demús) is a small municipality in the Safor comarca (county), in the Land of Valencia close to the Mediterranean sea in Spain. It has a population of about 2,200 inhabitants in winter and around 10,000 in summer.

Daimús beach (la platja de Daimús)
Daimús beach (la platja de Daimús)

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[edit] Structure

The municipality is divided in three parts:

  • el Poble (the village): the most ancient part. It is mainly composed of one-floor houses and a church.
  • els Pedregals (the stony): group of one-floor houses near a small church at about 1 km of the main village.
  • la Platja (the beach): group of buildings only used in summer holidays by tourists mainly from Madrid. It is 1.5 kilometer far from the village.

[edit] History

Daimús is a small municipality near the town of Gandia, the most important in the area. Daimús is probably founded on the XIII century, after the Reconquista. The historical importance of Gandia, particularly during the Renaissance made the rest of the small towns around it to live under its shadow. This causes that Daimús history is not well known even by his inhabitants.

The beach was unpopulated until 1960’s, when the many French tourists took advantage of the rate of exchange and bought apartments by the sea. Some examples are the apartment buildings La Torre, Galia and Costa Blanca. In the late 1960’s the Spanish economy flourished (partly due to European tourism) and many Spaniards could afford a second house for the summer season. Thus, more apartment buildings appear, such as Semiramis, Trianon, Costa Blanca II, Nayade and Pinocho. Once was called familiar beach because it had no hotels, and because it was small. It used to have a summer cinema called Terraza Daison. In the late 1990’s Daimús started growing and doubled its size in about 6 years.

[edit] Economy

During centuries Daimús was a rural area with crops of vegetables and oranges. Later it became a tourist area due to its proximity of the sea and the fields became new buildings. Most of the population now works in the close cities of Oliva and Gandia.

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