Dénia’s natural harbour defined its first settlements, which were the Roman Dianium and the Muslim Daniya, and subsequently the current city was built seeking ways out to sea.
The port of Dénia was the nerve centre for the export of raisins (“la pansa”) in the 19th and 20th centuries, and even today it is still possible to find influences from those times in the urban landscape and the maritime façade. The boats left from the port, in the area that is still known as El Moll de La Pansa (the Raisin Wharf) and which nowadays is a modern harbour enclosure.
It is part of the route called La Ruta dels Riuraus and it is possible to follow the route that the wagons transporting the raisins used to take when they arrived in Dénia. They used to carry the raisins to the trading companies’ warehouses, many of which still exist today and currently house commercial and restoration establishments. These ships sailed full of their cargo to ports around the world such as London, New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, Marseilles, Algeria...
- Privately-owned riuraus
- Museu Etnològic de Dénia (Dénia’s ethnological museum)
- The Castle of Dénia
- Moll de La Pansa
- Estufa de la finca Merle