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Benimaclet
Benimaclet is one of Valencia’s most distinctive old villages absorbed into the modern city, and you can still feel that small-scale rhythm in its streets and main square. Its name goes back to Moorish times, from the Arabic بني مخلد, *banī Maḫlad*, meaning “sons of Majlad,” and the old village sits in the city’s northeast, between Orriols, the University of Valencia area, Primat Reig, and Alboraia. For centuries, it kept its own local identity: from the end of the 16th century until 1878 it was an independent council with its own mayor, and even after that the last traces of local sovereignty lasted until 1970. …
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