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What to see and do in Benamaurel

What to see and do in Benamaurel (Comarca de Baza, Granada): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Nature · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to Benamaurel: festival calendar

April: Fiestas de San León Magno (April 11)

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What to see and do in Benamaurel

Benamaurel
Village
The name comes from 'Aben Moriel.' Located in the center of the Baza basin, in 2025 it has 2,235 inhabitants; the population peaked around 1950 and then declined due to emigration.
Casas-cueva de Benamaurel
Curiosity
According to the provincial inventory, it is the Spanish municipality of under 15,000 inhabitants with the most cave houses: 1,993.
Fiesta de Moros y Cristianos
Activity
Late-April festival considered, according to local sources, to have the greatest literary content of any held in Spain.
Fiestas de San León Magno
Activity
Patron saint festival of Benamaurel in which townspeople receive the traditional 'roscas de San León' during the procession between the parish church and the saint's hermitage.
Humedales de la cola del Negratín en Benamaurel
Nature
The tail end of the Negratín reservoir as it passes through Benamaurel forms a wetland refuge for endangered wildlife, amid a landscape of clay and marl badlands and gullies.
El esparto, el oro verde de Benamaurel
Historical milestone
For generations the cultivation and braiding of esparto grass was such an important source of wealth in Benamaurel that it came to be known as 'green gold'; the municipality also had sulfur mines that have since disappeared.