Benigembla (Valencian pronunciation: [beniˈdʒembla])[2] is a town and municipality in the Pop Valley within the district of Marina Alta in eastern Spain.
At the summit of "El Cavall Verd" also known as "La Muntanya del Pop", there are still some remains of an ancient castle called ´´El Castell de Pop´´.
From the 1900s to 1960 the town lost 34% of its population, since most of the locals migrated to the U.S., France, Germany, and Algeria Today the village has approximately 606 inhabitants, according to the latest municipal census of the year 2011.
The district of Vernissa Park is largely English speaking, since most of the people that settled in the urbanisation are British.
Today there is 52% of the population according to the 2022 census that is foreign, of which about 67.5% are from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, while the rest come from North America, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Eastern Europe.
During the summer festivity there are concerts, theatre, fireruns (correfoc), dancing, Valencian handball, running with the bulls, and religious celebrations.
A zigzag draw us closer to "El Corral de Malea", and then to a more open space called la "Corona".
There is a rare colony of the plant Caralluma mumbyana in the mountain of the Cavall Verd, a type of cactus with bright pink flowers that is indigenous to south-eastern Spain, that is at risk of extinction.
The Ribàs Botanical Park went through a major renovation project, and 408 new vegetal species were planted In the Living Museum of Benigembla, art comes to life in its streets.
Every year in the late spring, or at the beginning of summer, a festival is organized in which graffiti artists from all over the world participate.
Among the participants is Tardor Graffiti of the Xara, the Mexican Juan Andrés Vera, or Xolaka among many other renowned international street artists.
Fernando Mengual i Taverner of the PPCV was elected mayor with three votes out of the seven councilmen, however his inability to work with other councilmen, the lack of democratic transparency in the decision making process, together with the lack of support of his own party, and after three major defeats to his controversial plans to build three more urbanisations, which started to provoke distrust and discontent.
In 2005, the major Aurelio Llinares i Mas of the PP party resigned, and Felipe Perez i Mengual took over as mayor until 2007.
The plan to build 1500 houses and a golf course finally was revoked on a town council meeting on 21 May 2010 by the nationalist mayor of the Bloc party Joan Caselles, and the developer "El Grup Ballester".