A typical Spanish town, on the Costa del Azahar, small and friendly, nestling in orange groves between the wonderful sandy beach and a back drop of spectacular mountain ridges. It has a wealth of cheap bars and restaurants serving traditional Spanish cuisine at a very modest cost. Its variety of shops offer the personal service and attention to detail long since gone from traders in Britain. Oliva is fast becoming cosmopolitan with a mix of nationalities settling in the area and it would follow that we now have a few British run bars and eating houses as well as a supermarket supplying all the tastes you miss from back in the old country.

Oliva is Famous for its many fiesta's and the most worthy of note are the Falles in March with the huge effigies that are eventually spectacularly burned, Semana Santa ( Holy week at Easter ) and the spectacular Moors and Christians festival in July.