Zone guide · Dénia
El Montgó the Dénia side
Villas on the Dénia flank of the mountain, where the view you are paying for is exactly what drags your plot into the natural park rules.
4.9 from 104 Google reviews · Juan Bertomeu, abogado ICALI 4643 · Our Dénia office: Calle Ramón y Cajal 5E · Legal position last reviewed July 2026
So, the Montgó is two maps at once, and they disagree. On the tourist-licence map it is an open zone: when the Ayuntamiento de Dénia froze new tourist-use certificates in the urban core, Montgó was expressly left out. On the planning map it is the edge of a natural park, and that is where the care belongs.
The park is not a view. It is a set of planning instruments, the PORN approved in 2002 and the PRUG in 2007, restricting what can be built on the protected slopes. Two villas on the same lane can sit on opposite sides of that line. And where land is protected, the power to order works undone never expires.
Our office is in Dénia itself, Calle Ramón y Cajal 5E, Oficina 1. Files run under Juan Antonio Bertomeu Vallés, abogado, ICALI #4643, practising here since 1991, with the tax side under Daniel Bertomeu, tax adviser (AEDAF #06838, APAFCV #3080). The Dénia and Moraira offices hold 4.9 from 104 Google reviews.
Who buys in El Montgó (Dénia side)
The owners we act for on this hillside are mostly German, Dutch and British. They bought for the pines, the space and the sea at a distance, not for a beach five minutes away. Almost all of them arrive with the view already chosen and the paperwork still open.
What we actually check in El Montgó (Dénia side)
Where your plot ends and the park begins
The useful question is never whether a villa is near the park. It is which classification your exact cadastral parcel carries under the PORN (2002) and the PRUG (2007), because that decides whether the pool, the terrace or the extension you have in mind is possible at all. We look at the parcel, not the postcode.
Old works never go quiet up here
Elsewhere, time can eventually work in an owner's favour. On protected land it does not: the power to order restoration has no expiry date. A terrace cut into the slope in the nineties, an undeclared pool, a casita at the end of the garden: all of it stays actionable, and the order lands on whoever holds the deed. A seller telling you nobody has ever complained is not describing a defence. He is describing luck.
Segunda ocupación, the paper that turns the water on
Under Decreto 12/2021 the document you need is the declaración responsable de segunda ocupación: valid ten years, renewed on transmission or when a new utility contract is opened. Without a valid one, no water and no electricity in your name. Plenty of the houses up here have been standing for decades and have changed hands more than once, so we ask to see it before completion rather than after.
Holiday lets and the Dénia suspension
Letting a Montgó villa: open, and not automatic
New tourist-use compatibility certificates have been suspended in the Dénia urban core since 11 September 2024, extended and in force from 12 September 2025. Les Marines, Les Rotes and Montgó are expressly excluded, so a new licence here is still possible. Possible is not automatic. Under Decreto-ley 9/2024, in force since 8 August 2024, a VUT is the whole dwelling let for ten days or fewer to the same guest, letting by the room is prohibited, the municipal urban compatibility report is mandatory, registration lasts five years and fines reach 600,000 euros. Now the honest part. On 5 June 2026 the council gave initial approval to a permanent ordinance cutting urban-core licences from 639 to 344 from 2029. It is not final and it is in public consultation, so nobody can tell you today where it lands. For a specific address we check the live position before you count on the income.
Tourist rental licences in Dénia: the zone map and our fixed feeOwning in El Montgó (Dénia side), the tax side
Two directions. Nationally, Modelo 210: an imputed income even in the years the villa sits empty, at 1.1% of the valor catastral if it was revised in the last ten years, otherwise 2%. German and Dutch owners pay 19% and can deduct expenses against rental income; British owners pay 24% on the gross since Brexit, though the gain on a sale stays at 19% for everyone. The deadlines have just moved: imputed income accrued from 2026 files between 1 April and 31 December of the following year, and rents accrued from 2026 have a single window, the first twenty calendar days of April of the following year. Locally, Dénia delegates IBI, plusvalía and the waste charge to SUMA, so the demand arrives with SUMA on the envelope, not the Ayuntamiento, and owners abroad routinely bin it as junk.
Modelo 210 in Dénia: what non-resident owners file, and our feeEl Montgó (Dénia side): questions buyers actually ask
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