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Municipality in Valencian Community, Spain

Biar

Biar is a town and municipality in the comarca of Alt Vinalopó, province of Alicante, Spain.

Biar
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The place

Biar is a town and municipality in the comarca of Alt Vinalopó, province of Alicante, Spain. Biar lies at the foot of the Serra de Mariola and is located 39 km from the city of Alicante.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Castell de Biar

    Initially built in the 12th century by the Moors, the castle was conquered by King Jaime of Aragon and eventually marked the border between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.

  2. 02
    Museu Etnogràfic Municipal

    The 19th-century building houses a collection of regional historic and cultural artifacts, with a focus on ceramics.

From Wikivoyage: Biar, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Moros i Cristians (Moros y Cristianos / Moors and Christians). 10-13 May. Biar celebrates the Christian reconquista like many other towns in the area, complete with mock battles and bonfires.

From Wikivoyage: Biar, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Pizzeria-Restaurante Chao Chao

    A well-established pizzeria/tapas bar.

From Wikivoyage: Biar, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Biar

Airports
Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández (ALC), 43 km · Region of Murcia (RMU), 97 km · Valencia (VLC), 98 km
  • Alicante → Biar
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Valencia → Biar
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Corvera → Biar
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Biar

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Biar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    555 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    888 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,065 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,078 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,341 km

If you know how people move in Biar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Biar

Biar is 40 km from Alicante, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.