Beniaján is a nice town located in Garden of Murcia, on the foot of the extensive saw that closes the Vale of the Segura for the south. It is to approximately 5 km from Murcia. His name is known on a global scale by the abundant production of citrus fruits that it exports to the whole world, industrial activity much established in the locality and of the one that has been and all one is a modality.

Holidays: They emphasize especially the carnival celebrations, Holy Week, the Pilgrimage of the Virgin of the Orange blossom (May 1) and them Management holidays in honor of Our Lady of Carmen (second week of July).


History: Although the archaeological deposits are different argáricos and Iberian that splash the area, the historical Beniaján origins like consolidated nucleus go back to the Roman epoch, when Vila-Nova denomination was founded the first population on the foot of the mountainous range under her . Centuries later the Arabs would raise on her Benihazram or Aben Hazarani, reconquered Moslem nucleus for the Christian troops in the XIIIth century and of that the Beniaján of our days has evolved finally. The XVIIth century one supposed period of big wealth and economic blast-off, since all the grounds of the South Mountain range stayed under the jurisdiction of the town, being already consolidated like strong nucleus of the Vega. The temple arciprestal of Saint John Bautista, erected then, sample of the above mentioned splendor supposes an egg white . During the epoch of the Liberal Triennium, this district requested to be a proper municipality and he was granted in 1814. Nevertheless, it belonged again to the municipality of Murcia in 1856. In these years called Cantonalismo is born: Antonio Gálvez Maple, maximum representative of this revolutionary movement political in the Levant, is a key figure in the local history of last third of the XIXth century, since his life would pass in this one area, big part of his followers was beniajanenses and it finished turning Beniaján into one of the bastions of defense of murcianismo at national level. With the XXth century, railroad comes to Beniaján and with him an economic development without precedents in everything the Region. New industries appear, especially dedicated to the derivatives of the agriculture, and the phenomenon arises of exportation hortofrutícola at international levels. The War only Civil he supposed an inflection point in this strength that comes even our days, where an enriching commercial trajectory and cultural it advances in parallel to the industrial and social development of Today Beniaján.