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Apartment Acacia 2
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EUR 1,108,000
Orihuela Costa
Costa Blanca South's golf heartland: four championship courses led by award-winning Las Colinas, the coves of Cabo Roig, and the region's biggest shopping destination
Orihuela Costa is the coastal urbanisation belt of the municipality of Orihuela - it is not the same place as Orihuela city, whose historic centre (a former Baroque university town with a well-preserved old quarter) sits well inland: Wikipedia describes the coastal development as "more than 20km from Orihuela," while driving-distance data puts the road journey from Orihuela city to La Zenia or Playa Flamenca at roughly 30km, about 28-32 minutes . This coastal/inland split is a genuine source of buyer confusion and worth stating plainly before anything else. The coast itself is a string of urbanisations rather than one town centre - Villamartin, Las Ramblas, Cabo Roig, La Zenia, Playa Flamenca and Dehesa de Campoamor among them - and it borders Torrevieja to the north around Punta Prima (a few kilometres away; Punta Prima itself is covered in this project's Torrevieja pack, not duplicated here) . Growth here has been fast: Orihuela Costa's population reached 30,171 in 2025, up 7.7% on the year, and now accounts for close to a third of the wider municipality's near-89,000 residents, with the coast explicitly named as the municipality's main growth driver . What sets Orihuela Costa apart within the generally higher-volume, lower-average-price Costa Blanca South market is its golf. Villamartin, Las Ramblas and Campoamor golf clubs - long established, dating back to 1972, 1990 and 1998 respectively - sit alongside the newer Las Colinas Golf & Country Club, a 330-hectare, low-density, gated resort built around a Cabell B. Robinson-designed course and currently ranked 17th in Spain and 98th in Continental Europe by Top100GolfCourses.com . Real-estate sources commonly group three or four of these courses together as Orihuela Costa's "golf triangle," though which three make the cut varies by source (some name Villamartin/Las Ramblas/Campoamor, others substitute Las Colinas) . Beyond the fairways, Cabo Roig's clifftop strip and coves and Zenia Boulevard's open-air retail scale (see marketsummary and lifestyleleisure) round out the case for this being the premium end of Costa Blanca South - genuinely gated, low-density and golf-led, even if average prices remain well below Costa Blanca North.
Orihuela retained 10 Blue Flags for beaches in 2026 plus one for the Club Nautico Dehesa de Campoamor marina, making it the leading municipality in Alicante province for these awards that year: Calas de Aguamarina, Barranco Rubio, Cabo Roig-La Caleta, Cala Capitan, Cala Cerrada, Cala Estaca, Campoamor-La Glea, La Zenia-Cala Bosque, Mil Palmeras and Punta Prima . Cabo Roig's own coastline is built around two named coves either side of the cape: La Caleta (387m long, sheltered by the cape's rock walls) to the south, and Cala Capitan (152m) to the north, linked by a roughly 2km cliff-top walkway that takes about 25 minutes on foot; Aguamarina cove sits further along, between Cabo Roig and Campoamor . Punta Prima, bordering Torrevieja to the north, also holds Blue Flag status but is covered in this project's Torrevieja pack rather than duplicated here.
Inland from Dehesa de Campoamor, the Sierra Escalona y Dehesa de Campoamor Protected Landscape covers 10,683.76 hectares across the municipalities of Orihuela, San Miguel de Salinas and Pilar de la Horadada, declared for its ecological and scenic value and also recognised as a Special Bird Protection Area (ZEPA, 10,458.76ha) and Site of Community Importance (LIC, 4,782ha) .
The Cabo Roig strip is Orihuela Costa's dining and nightlife spine - a dense run of restaurants along the N-332 offering an international mix (Chinese, Indian, Italian, Irish and Mediterranean/Spanish) alongside Irish and Australian-style pubs, plus Sala Passion in nearby Villamartin Plaza for later-night entertainment . No Michelin-recognised restaurant was found listed for Orihuela Costa, Cabo Roig, Campoamor or Playa Flamenca as of this check - buyers wanting starred dining currently need to look further afield on the Costa Blanca (see the North region packs for Javea and La Nucia). The everyday scene here trades genuine breadth and volume for that Michelin tier.
Golf is Orihuela Costa's headline leisure asset. Villamartin Golf (opened 1972, 18 holes) is the area's oldest and most established course; Las Ramblas Golf (opened 1990, designed by Pepe Gancedo) is built across steep, ravine-cut terrain and is generally regarded as the most technically demanding of the group; Real Club de Golf Campoamor (opened 1998, 18 holes, 6,277m) sits sheltered between two valleys and plays year-round . Las Colinas Golf & Country Club is the newest and most exclusive of the four: a 330-hectare, low-density gated resort with 24-hour security, its villas and apartments arranged in small private gated sub-communities around a Cabell B. Robinson-designed championship course . Real-estate and course-ranking sources describe Las Colinas as having won "Spain's Best Golf Course" at the World Golf Awards multiple times and "Leading Villa Resort" honours at the World Travel Awards - but the exact years cited are genuinely inconsistent across sources (2015/2016/2017 per one contemporary report; 2015/2016/2017/2018/2019 per another; 2015/2016/2020/2021 per a third) . Zenia Boulevard, the open-air shopping and leisure centre in La Zenia, is widely described across local tourism and real-estate sources as "the largest shopping centre in the province of Alicante," with a footprint cited at 160,000-161,000m2 and around 150 shops and restaurants . On the water, Club Nautico Dehesa de Campoamor (founded early 1970s, around 350 berths) held its Blue Flag marina award in 2026, and the smaller Club Nautico Cabo Roig offers full harbour services from its dock beneath the cape's watchtower .
Life here centres on the golf courses' fairways, the Cabo Roig cliff-top promenade out to the Faro de Cabo Roig lighthouse, and the marinas at Campoamor and Cabo Roig. Using the nearest AEMET station with published normals (Alicante, 1981-2010 period) as a regional proxy - the same caveat applies here as for other Costa Blanca packs, since this is not an Orihuela Costa-specific reading - the average annual temperature is 18.3C, ranging from an 11.7C January average to 26.0C in August, with roughly 2,851 hours of sunshine a year . That climate, combined with the area's low-density gated golf communities, is the basis of outdoor living here: pool terraces, golf-course frontage and coastal walking rather than an old-town or harbour-town lifestyle.
Pricing sources disagree meaningfully on Orihuela Costa's current average, and none should be treated as settled without a fresh pull before publish. Idealista's district-level report (data referenced as of November 2025) names Orihuela Costa the most expensive district within the wider Orihuela municipality, at 2,933/m2 . A more recent aggregator snapshot (April 2026) puts the figure at 3,286/m2, up 2.53% year-on-year . Fotocasa's own index (June 2026, fetched directly for this draft) shows a higher 3,618/m2 town-wide average, with a striking divergence by unit size - smaller units (under 100m2) up only 2.91% year-on-year, while larger units (over 100m2) are up 18.35% - which likely reflects strong demand for larger villa-type stock (the golf-resort segment) pulling the top end of the market up faster than the entry-level apartment segment . Set against Costa Blanca North, the honest comparison is that Orihuela Costa is meaningfully cheaper on a straight town-wide average: Javea and Moraira run in a 3,300-4,600/m2 band per this project's existing North region packs, while Orihuela Costa's town-wide figures sit mostly below that band and only brush its lower edge at the top end of the range found here . What the town-wide average doesn't capture is that gated golf-resort stock - Las Colinas in particular, where listed villas commonly run from the mid-100,000s for smaller units up into the 1-2 million range for larger plots - sits well above the area-wide average and is genuinely the segment competing for the same buyer Javea/Moraira attract . The honest sell here is not "as expensive as the North" but "a lower entry point, with a genuine gated, low-density, golf-anchored top tier for buyers who want it."
No, and this is a common point of confusion. Orihuela Costa is the coastal urbanisation belt - Villamartin, Cabo Roig, La Zenia, Playa Flamenca and Dehesa de Campoamor among its areas - that forms part of the much larger municipality of Orihuela. Orihuela city, the historic inland centre with its Baroque old quarter, sits roughly 20km away in a straight line (around 30km/28-32 minutes by road) . Buyers researching "Orihuela" online should check carefully which of the two they're looking at.
It refers to the cluster of golf courses inland of Cabo Roig and Campoamor: the long-established Villamartin (1972) and Las Ramblas (1990) courses, Real Club de Golf Campoamor (1998), and the newer, more exclusive Las Colinas Golf & Country Club - a low-density, gated resort currently ranked 17th in Spain by Top100GolfCourses.com . Sources vary on which three of the four make up the "triangle" label itself, but together they're the area's premium, golf-anchored property segment .
It varies sharply by source and by segment. Town-wide average asking prices range from roughly 2,900/m2 to 3,600/m2 depending on the index used (Idealista, an aggregator snapshot, and Fotocasa disagree) , which is meaningfully below Costa Blanca North's Javea/Moraira band of 3,300-4,600/m2 . Gated golf-resort villas, particularly at Las Colinas, run well above the area average - from the mid-100,000s up to 1-2 million for larger plots - so the "expensive" answer depends heavily on which segment a buyer means .
That's the claim made consistently across local tourism and real-estate sources, with a footprint cited at 160,000m2+ and around 150 shops . It hasn't been independently verified against a retail-industry ranking for this draft, and sources disagree on whether that figure represents total site area or leasable retail space - so treat it as the well-established local claim rather than an audited industry fact .
Depends on priority. Cabo Roig suits buyers wanting a walkable dining/nightlife strip and clifftop coves; La Zenia suits those wanting Zenia Boulevard and beach access on the doorstep; Campoamor and Villamartin suit golf-focused buyers wanting course frontage and, in Villamartin's case, one of the area's more established, amenity-rich urbanisations .
Yes - the two are adjacent, meeting around Punta Prima, roughly 5-8km from Torrevieja depending on the exact point measured . Punta Prima itself, while technically part of Orihuela Costa, is covered in this project's Torrevieja region pack rather than here, given its border position.
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