CC MEMO -- Costa Living

An answer to the question posed in our Costa What post from yesterday. Valencia Sailing's Pierre Orphanidis emailed this afternoon with an explanation of Costa del Azahar, the name of the coastal region either side of Valencia:

It is the name, in Castellano, of the flower of the orange tree. Its origin is the arab words al-azahar meaning “white flower”. In Valenciano it’s called Costa dels Tarongers. It starts north at the border with Catalonia and goes south to Javea. Obviously the region got its name from the abundance of orange trees -- that is before the real estate boom that transformed it into a coastal Hong Kong!!

Thanks, Pierre.



An orange blosson, a.k.a. al-azahar.