Tag Archive for Vélez Benaudalla

Velez Benaudalla Fete

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…

New School for Velez Benaudalla

The Regional Education Board is spending 2.6m euros on a new school for Velez Benaudalla (just above Motril) to replace the old Colegio Madrigal & Padial. This new building will provide a room for a further 225 pupils.

Lucky Benaudalla!

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 Benaudalla Book Fair

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

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.

Vélez Benaudalla

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.