The Arab Market will be situated in la Haza la Laguna Friday 29th 21:00 hrs: Inauguration of the IV Expo Nazarí 21:30 hrs. Parade with zancudos (performers on stilts) & Acrobats Show 22:00 hrs. Banda de Música concert Saturday 30th 10:30 hrs. Opening of day market and beginning of activity workshops in the children’s Rincon…
Vélez de Benaudalla
news from Vélez de Benaudalla on the Costa Tropical
Lucky Benaudalla!
by Editor •
It’s a Spanish Christmas tradition and very rarely does the average Spanish family not take part; especially when times are tough; we’re talking about El Gordo de Navidad, which is drawn on the 22nd of December. This time the second prize, worth one million euros fell to Vélez Benaudalla, just above Motril; a village of…
Vélez Man Arrested
by Editor •
A man from Vélez Benaudalla was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison for attacking his girlfriend.
Vélez Benaudalla Book Fair
by Editor •
Héloïse Nolan, who used to write this section, tells us that Viv Packer is starting up a book fair in Vélez de Benaudalla on the 3rd Saturday of every month between 11 am and 2 pm. Good quality books in all languages. For more information Viv can be reached on 958 851 273 or 676…
Municipal Pool Completed
by Editor •
The good folk – together with the bad ones – of Vélez de Benaudalla can now boast a municipal swimming pool! Woo-hoo! They already claim to have a beach – better-said a ‘strand,’ which really is a very nice place to spend a hot afternoon in the shade of the riverbank trees.
Hydro Plant for Motril
by Editor •
Anybody that has driven along the A-323 as it passes through the canyon below Vélez Benaudalla cannot have failed to have been distracted by the manmade waterfall called Cañizares, which plummets down from a water channel above, before disappearing under the road – it is quite spectacular.
Vélez Benaudalla
by Martin Myall •
The first time that I ever ventured up to Vélez Benaudalla was in 1982, when the main road through the canyon had only been open for six years.
The Canyon Route
by Editor •
Anybody that has travelled up to Granada cannot have failed to be impressed by the gorge or canyon of the Azud de Vélez, which is just below, Vélez Benaudalla.Anybody that has travelled up to Granada cannot have failed to be impressed by the gorge or canyon of the Azud de Vélez, which is just below, Vélez Benaudalla.