MONTEALMENARA, SPAIN

Client: Lifeland

Role: Architecture and Masterplanning

Montealmenara is a new leisure and residential development planned close to the Mediterranean coast, 30 kilometres north of Valencia in Spain. Located on an attractive steeply sloping site, it has stunning views over the sea and nearby two PGA standard golf courses. On completion, it will comprise over 1,200 homes, hotel, leisure and educational facilities, shops, restaurants and clubhouse.

The vision behind the development is to create a unique new community that appeals to all walks of life. The varied scheme is expected to attract younger local people looking to set up a new home as well as locals or foreigners wishing to buy a holiday home. Full healthcare support facilities also make this an ideal retirement home for people looking for a place in the sun.

“The development is to create a unique new community that appeals to all walks of life”

PRP has been responsible for preparing detailed designs for three of the residential areas. The first area to be planned in detail is the ‘horse shoe’ site, named after its shape and location at the head of the valley. The scheme has been designed in a traditional manner with apartments along the contours and at right angles to the slope to create an interlocking pattern of quiet pedestrian streets around private courtyards separated from the streets by the buildings.

At low level and at the heart of the ’horseshoe’ is a piazza with restaurant and cafe overlooking a large pool. The intimate scale of the piazza acts as a focus for the development and meeting place for residents and visitors. The apartments look over the piazza and down the valley to the golf courses.