Binibeca Vell (Binibèquer Vell in Catalan; Binibeca Viejo in Spanish) is a town located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), which belongs to the municipality of Sant Lluís. It is 5 km from the capital of the municipality, and 8 km from Port Mahon, the island's capital. It is located between Cap d'en Font to the west and Binibeca beach to the east.
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It is a town built around the 1960s, designed by the Barcelonese architect F.J. Barba Corsini, with a project emulating a prototypical style of building of coastal villages in the Mediterranean. This fact has earned it some popularity as a tourist visit,[1] not without controversy by those who consider it an inauthentic construction, unfaithful to the style it aims to imitate.
A dispersed urbanization of single-family houses and shops has developed around the town, which has become a central destination for summer tourism. Though coastal, the place has little in the way of commercial development, but that is rapidly changing.[2] The village of Binibeca is characterized by narrow streets and whitewashed villas and apartments. The peculiarity of staying at Binibeca is its small commercial center which offers tourists with a great selection of restaurants, bars and souvenir shops.[3]
References
edit- ^ Kassam, Ashifa (6 May 2024). "Menorca village threatens to close to tourists after explosion in numbers". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- ^ Micula, Grzegorz (2012). Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza (Revised ed.). London: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-4053-9328-7.
- ^ "Binibeca, Menorca - A Tourist Guide to Binibeca - CalaMenorca.com". www.calamenorca.com.
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