History

Benidorm is both a city and a great people, are two of its virtues. In 1950 was only about 2,700 inhabitants, many of whom spent much of the year working at sea, sometimes very far from Benidorm.

Although there was an interesting archaeological site in the Tosal as well as an Iberian and Roman baths at the current site of Terra Mitica, the truth is that what is now the town of Benidorm, was part of the Barony of Polop, located slightly more inland and a castle easier to defend than the Tower of Security and the Castle in Benidorm.
Benidorm, because of the threat posed to have the island to a stone's throw, and which could dock, and thence to the coast make inroads with the rear deck has not been until recent decades a major urban settlement . She was very vulnerable from the sea, where they came from the dangers of pirates and Barbary. It was unpleasant to live on land, for lack of drinking water and irrigation. Good land, but unproductive for want of water and irrigation. And a gentle sea, but not to fish near as far migrating for work

The Benidorm have a long history of fishing, not local and offshore fishing. Until the fifties, one can say that a large number of masters or earrings traps the Spanish coast and northern Africa were Benidorm. In a trap Atlantic arrived at work, on the coast of Cadiz, nearly two hundred people, the coordination required great ability, who undoubtedly used as the accumulated knowledge Benidorm for further economic development of its people. But besides trap fishermen, the Benidorm were especially highlighted as great sailors in the service of shipping companies, especially in the years between 1880 and 1930. In this time when transatlantic company was among the ten largest in the world, there is evidence that ten of the masters of this company, which plied the seven seas, were Benidorm.

But not only were ships' captains, practical but large ports, pilots, máquenas leaders, radio operators, supervisors and general positions of some importance in the merchant navy. Several descendants of those families have been concerned to develop a list of marine Benidorm for over two hundred.

The reality is that there was a small fishing village, but of great sailors, merchants and peaceful. It seems intuitive that having gone around the world provided to Benidorm returning to rest on his return a universal sense of things, greater tolerance, a liberal, cosmopolitan insurance, some introduction to the languages and other cultures and a fifth sense for the hotel business and tourism.

Only then is it that exists in Benidorm, on the one hand, a welcoming attitude toward new residents delivering new business and a parallel public and private social control of the growth process of the city that does that, unlike other areas like the Costa del Sol or Canary Islands here were not produced or ecological disasters and urban or bankruptcies immobiliarias of importance. It integrates and is welcome to those who are growing the city, and there is an unwritten law that involves love the city and proud of it, so that attitudes do not fit easily and quickly gain: scorched earth or money, garbage is not love Benidorm