Beniardà

Beniardá is a place that is offered on foot to the curiosity of the people. From the road you can count the houses, one by one. And from the neighbor Benimantell you can even follow the movement of people. It is poured into the valley as it is, showing all its secrets, if any. A short aqueduct crosses the road formed as a gateway to the town, the first house of which is their school group. Good sign! The teaching is given from the beginning. The traveler trusts that all the inhabitants will arrive at the end of childhood knowing, if not more, the first letters that allow them to advance independently … Beniardá, like the rest of the cores of the Guadalest valley, lets its Moorish roots spring up. The unique layout of its small streets, the choice of place, the habits of its people and more than one dress make us think of that past civilization – because civilized were and I think a little more than those who expelled them – that marked such a footprint deep in our land, where they left a very simple trace to follow. Still work the fields – not all – with the methods created by the ancestors of a good number of comarcanos. And they still eat simple dishes of the Moorish cuisine that was not bad, no …