Trenet de la Marina: 100 years ferrying people from the coast

The July 11 1915 the train finally arrived off the coast of Dénia. A year earlier he had arrived from Alicante to Altea. Since the project was presented and begun in 1911 it was learned that this train would last many years in operation, since none served the function of structuring the regions of the Costa Blanca as he did this.

In fact, at 1911, a work was started that would cost a lot of sweat and effort, many hours and many dangers; the roads had to be installed in unsuspected places that were difficult to access. But it was achieved and this trenet narrow gauge became a symbol of the two Marinas (Alta and Baixa). The historical and cultural heritage it represents is what has kept it alive and continues its journeys from our town to the capital of the province.

Although fewer and fewer people use it, for his delay in reaching your destination (now only goes to Benidorm but it takes a lot), it remains essential to the nearby transport, people who live in a village and accurate go to the next without taking the car. Now no goods are transported, but was once essential in transporting raw materials and ready-made.

To mark the centenary of its construction arrival to Dénia is done in this exhibition that will last until the end of the year. In the same train station Denia you can see paintings, photographs, writings and papers of the process of building roads and anecdotes of the hundred years of incessant up and down in the province travel.

The day the exhibition was inaugurated, the mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, accompanied by the Regional Minister of Vertebration of the Territory, Maria José Salvador, spoke of the important function of the vertebrator of the territory that has this public transport, which, despite the infrastructure improvement needs (which, in voice of the Consellera, will be realized soon), "it remains that symbol and no doubt many people continue to use it to move to neighboring towns in the shortest possible time ".

The Mascarat bridge or passage through tunnels and narrow valleys such as the Gata Gorge and the spectacular views of mountains and above all the sea that can be seen during the journey are reflected in the exhibition that reviews the history of this part of our heritage in which everyone, as children, climbed excited.