Benitachell News Today

Benitachell town hall has launched the 10th edition of a competition for children which is designed to ‘bring them closer to the municipal library’. Primary school pupils are being asked to draw a picture of how they think this year’s teddy mascot for the library should look. The winner will b

Two suspects have been arrested for carrying out 51 burglaries at homes in Benitachell, Teulada-Moraira and Jalón. During a raid on their home in Benidorm, Guardia Civil were able to recover jewellery worth around €4,500, electronic devices, personnel effects and €3,500 in cash, ‘most of which’ h

The public library in Benitachell has won a national prize for the sixth year in a row for encouraging people to read books. A town hall spokesman noted that are trying to ensure that children start to read from a very early age so it ‘becomes a consolidated habit’. More in Friday’s Costa Blan

Benitachell is the most-sought-after Spanish village for foreign property hunters, according to a study carried out by top real estate portal, Idealista. They compiled a ‘top 20’ of municipalities which have populations of fewer than 5,000 people. Most of the non-Spaniards who want to either b

A British driver has killed a man at a petrol station on the Costa Blanca, Spain, and left another person with serious injuries after she crashed her Mercedes with police investigating

Signage and colouring for the cycle lane at the Cumbre del Sol in Benitachell has been completed, according to the town hall. A council spokesman said the €15,687 project had made the road safer for cyclists. “Another of the works that is being carried out is the roundabout which is being plac

Cross-dressing is obligatory in Benitachell on Saturday – its ‘mayors for a day’ have given their orders. The annual celebrations for Saint Pancras’ Day are universally held to be among the silliest and most enjoyable on the Marina Alta town’s fiesta calendar. This year the mayors-for-a-day de

Over the weekend the fire service has been damping down charred areas on the coast between Moraira and Benitachell’s Cumbre del Sol. This was nearly a week after the fire – which broke out close to several urbanisations and forced the evacuation of 120 residents – was classed as extinguished.

Divers have been visiting ‘areas never seen before’ in the Moraig sea cave in Benitachell. A council spokesman explained that the system of underwater caverns, tunnels and galleries was formed by the subterranean River Moraig (also known as the Riu Blanc). It is probable that the Moraig cave i

Two small earthquakes occurred in the north of Alicante province on Easter Sunday. The tremors were noted by residents but did not cause any damage. The first earthquake was registered at 21.44, with the epicentre in the north-east of Calpe, according to the national geographic institute (IGN)