Beniatjar

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Altitude (m): 396

Population: 226

Surface (km²): 11

Postal Code: 46844

Demonym: beniatjarí, beniatjarina

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BENIATJAR The town of Benicadell

A thousand-year-old olive tree welcomes you in the village where nature, music and tradition coexist in perfect harmony. And that is how the town of Benicadell is identified, the mountain range where every neighbour from de Albaida Valley looks when he needs to feel at home. Beniatjar is a small and picturesque municipality that situated in the laps of the Benicadell mountain range, its main tourist attraction that combines with the tranquility and pure air of a mountain town. Reasons to visit Beniatjar There are many, but we wanted to highlight the passion of their neighbors for the music, the extraordinary oil that is made there and of course, the ascent to the summit of Benicadell. Three reasons that will lead you to discover Beniatjar, if you have not already done so.

HISTORY

Although rests of the culture of the Bronze have been found, the origin of Beniatjar is a Muslim farm, that was conquered by Jaime I and granted to Paz de Tarazona in 1258. Of Moorish population, counted in the year of the expulsion (1609) with one hundred families. Erected in barony, it belonged first to the duchy of Villahermosa and later to the Marquisate of Milan. Together with Otos, formed a Moorish vicarage that depended ecclesiastically on Rafol de Salem until 1535. Nevertheless it will not be until 1574, when it becomes independent parish.

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