Benámer: Trails, Festivals and Archaeological Traces

Benámer combines trails, festival traditions and historical traces to create a diverse local character. This is particularly evident when hiking: the route “Ruta de las pedanias. Ruta ecológica” passes through Alquerieta Jorda, Benàmer, Setla de Nunyes and Turballos. Its length is fixed at 15,390 metres. A second hiking route, the Volta a les Pedanies, passes through Benámer and the other pedanías of Muro. The sequence of places and the route length provide different starting points for planning your own day.

Nature

A two-kilometre-long path begins in the vicinity of the Font del Baladre and runs parallel to the riverbed. The routes mentioned differ in their geographical context and stated distance. For your own planning, you can weigh the sequence of places, the connection to the riverbed and the length separately. The names of the places along the routes, their parallel course alongside the riverbed and the specified distance make the routes tangible in different ways. When putting together your own days, you can consider spatial sequence, connection to the water and length as separate criteria.

When searching for a holiday apartment in Benámer, you can compare travel dates, room categories and cancellation policies on the accommodation pages. This information is part of practical accommodation planning; independently of this, you can choose the location based on the trails, festival dates and historical themes. Keeping these aspects separate makes the accommodation decision and the content of your travel planning easier to overview.

Culture

The Volta a les Pedanies has been held for many years and continues as a local tradition. It is also open to visitors who wish to take part in the route. The patron saint festivals of Benàmer take place in the first week of September. They are celebrated in honour of the Mare de Déu de Gràcia. For travel planning, a long-standing route event and a fixed festival period can be considered as different time references. The date, occasion and form of participation are separate pieces of information that can be taken into account independently.

Benámer is home to the parish church “Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de Gracia”.

History

Benamer is considered an alqueria and an abandoned settlement. An entry from 1611 describes Benamer in the area of Cocentaina as a Moorish alqueria. The archaeological site of Benàmer is an open-air settlement dating from the Early Neolithic in the Comunitat Valenciana. It lies in the basin of the Agres and Serpis rivers, 20 metres above river level.

The historical themes can be arranged as different ways of interpreting the place: a classification of the settlement, a dated entry and an archaeological site each establish different points of reference. For your planning, you can consider these perspectives separately rather than combining them into a single period. This keeps local history and archaeology identifiable as separate subject areas. For the Mesolithic settlement in Benàmer, a model of territoriality and seasonal use that differs from the previous understanding has been proposed.

For the overall travel overview: Muro De Alcoy.