Binibeca Vell facts for kids
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Binibeca Vell (Binibeca Viejo in Spanish; Binibèquer Vell in Catalan) is a town located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), which belongs to the municipality of San Luis. It is 5 km from the capital of the municipality, and 8 km from Mahón, the island's capital. It is located between Cap d'en Font to the west and Binibeca beach to the east.
It is a town built around the 1960s, designed by the Barcelonese architect F.J. Barba Corsini, with a project emulating a prototypical style of building of coastal villages in the Mediterranean. This fact has earned it some popularity as a tourist visit, not without controversy by those who consider it an inauthentic construction, unfaithful to the style it aims to imitate.
A dispersed urbanization of single-family houses and shops has developed around the town, which has become a central destination for summer tourism. Though coastal, the place has little in the way of commercial development, but that is rapidly changing. The village of Binibeca is characterized by narrow streets and whitewashed villas and apartments. The peculiarity of staying at Binibeca is its small commercial center which offers tourists with a great selection of restaurants, bars and souvenir shops.
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In Spanish: Binibeca Viejo para niños
