Benigànim

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Altitude (m): 33

Population: 5912

Surface (km²): 183

Postal Code: 46830

Demonym: beniganí, beniganina

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BENIGÁNIM Between the sky and the earth

With more than 6,100 inhabitants, this municipality of the Albaida Valley offers you plenty of reasons to visit it. Its historical richness, the legacy inherited by the different civilizations that have passed through its term and the wide catalog of churches, convents and hermitages that are erected in the locality make Benigánim a municipality of obligatory step for anyone. The festivities in honor of Blessed Ines, the most characteristic sweet of the municipality, the arrop and tallaetes, and one of the most popular hiking routes in the area, that of the Fountains, are three reasons that invite you to visit Benigánim if you have not done it yet. We find areas of great scenic beauty, which allow us to enjoy nature. One example is the Solana, where vestiges of old settlements dating from the third millennium BC, that is, from the Neolithic-Catholic period of Prehistory are located. But where we really find the passage of time is in the layout of the streets and in the form of houses. The oldest neighborhood is known as the Illeta neighborhood with narrow, irregular streets dating back to the 12th century, when Abu-Mahomet-Ben-Gania took this territory and founded a new settlement, which after the Conquest passed into Christian hands. With the increase of the population the urban layout extended. The new neighborhoods have wider and more straightforward streets, but they all continue to converge on one important point: a square, a fountain, a church, etc. In the year 1602 Felipe III granted the title of Vila Real, and allowed to be independent of Játiva.