Benimaclet
Farming village turned lively neighborhood, still growing vegetables on reclaimed huerta land.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Benimaclet in Valencia opens on a June morning in 2021, when an excavator pulled up to a small neighborhood-built park and about a hundred residents stood in its way. It reaches back to the empty plots, the developer's plans and the fences that kept coming down, and to the village that ran its own council until 1878. Keep an eye out for the old Pueblo de Benimaclet signs as you walk, and start near the Plaça de Benimaclet.
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