A town that changes with the calendar
Only about four in every ten homes in Dénia are lived in all year round, according to a University of Alicante housing study presented to the town hall. The rest are second homes and holiday lets, and more than 5,000 of them are registered for tourist use.
So the work changes with the months. In July the Bous a la Mar fill the port, and from the end of July to mid-August the Moros i Cristians parades pack Marqués de Campo: guests who cannot get into a holiday let, keys lost in a crowd. From October, houses shut until spring, and the calls are about locks that seize in an empty house and doors forced while nobody was there.