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Binibeca Vell (Binibèquer Vell in Catalan; Binibeca Viejo in Spanish) is a town located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), which belongs to the municipality of Sant Lluís. It is 5 km from the capital of the municipality, and 8 km from Port Mahon, 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.

References

1. Kassam, Ashifa (6 May 2024). "Menorca village threatens to close to tourists after explosion in numbers". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
2. Micula, Grzegorz (2012). Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza (Revised ed.). London: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-4053-9328-7.
3. "Binibeca, Menorca - A Tourist Guide to Binibeca - CalaMenorca.com". www.calamenorca.com.

39°49′12″N 4°14′24″E / 39.820°N 4.240°E / 39.820; 4.240

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Media related to Binibèquer at Wikimedia Commons

• Towns in Spain
• Populated places in Menorca
• 1960s architecture
• Populated coastal places in Spain