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BENICOLET Population: 582 hab. Municipal area: 11,3 km2 Altitude: 241 m. Demonym: benicoletà, benicoletana Town Hall Phone no.: 96 283 01 20 Web: www.benicolet.es E-mail: benicolet_alc@gva.es MONUMENTS Historic Center Characteristic of a humble and labrador town, we can find the church of San Juan Bautista, the En Medio Street, used for Valencian ball competitions in the brush modality or the monument in memory of the Poassa, an old community watering hole for cattle. Church of San Juan Bautista Dates of the seventeenth century and has a single nave with two chapels between the buttresses. Highlights include the classic decoration of the pilasters and the bell tower of two bodies and square floor plan.
BENICOLET
Font Vella (Old Fountain) Place where formerly the women of the village did the laundry and collected water for domestic use. It is currently restored and enabled with tables and burners to make barbecues or paellas with firewood. Riuraus Recently Benicolet has recovered traditions from its ancestors that give meaning to what it is today. This is the case of the “l’Escaldà de la Pansa” (Scalding of the raisin) Feast. A tradition that goes back to the beginning of the nineteenth century as a procedure by which raisins are made of the muscat grape, in the lower part of the Benicolet mountain range you will find a sample of the ancient riuraus.
