The role of the document consisted of
marking the boundaries of the term of the new town (which is well separated
administratively from the barony of Polop) and try to attract only the
establishment of Christian families. Strategically, the origin of the town
(like the other coastal towns as Villajoyosa) was due to the fear prevailing at
that time the top number of Muslims in the area, and possible alliances with
their religious brethren in the Kingdom of Granada and North Africa.
In 1335 he was the
territorial and Mr Pedro Infante of Aragon
and Anjou,
followed by his son Alfonso of Aragon and Foix. Posterioremte, Benidorm was
taken over by the Counts of Denia, returned to crown, and it finally sold to
the noble end Ruy Diaz de Mendoza, as the financial difficulties of the monarch
on the occasion of war forced him to discard many of you .
The population
suffered two terrible Berber pirate attacks, the first to second in 1410 and
1448, which hit the town and the castle. Specifically, the 1448 attack, the
pirates were enslaved to the majority of the inhabitants of Benidorm, which
depopulate the place.
In the sixteenth century was enlarged and repaired the castle, but the urban
village, which had returned to the barony of Polop, was apparently almost
completely depopulated.
Improved construction and defense establishment from 1666 of a canal that could
bring water from inside the area allowed to attract new settlers to the place.
In 1701, by aristocrats, was granted a new charter of the village population,
which returned to municipal and independent.
In 1715 the population had about 216
residents, a figure that rose to 2,700 in the late eighteenth century. This
strong population growth was possible due mainly to an important fishing fleet
based in the trap fishery (tuna fishery during the journey of migration,
through a fence of networks), in which people with specialized fortune.
In the War of Independence, the Napoleonic troops desecrated the cemetery and
destroyed the castle.
In the Borough remains have been found
Iberians and Romans. Apparently, during the Reconquista there a farmhouse on
the part of Arabic Lliriets in any case, the population would be of little
importance, since it is the name of Benidorm Feyts in the Book of James I of Aragon, who conquered this part of the province of Alicante, around the year 1245.
The lands of Benidorm, just like most of
the rest of the region, were given to Admiral Bernard Sarriá. This major feudal
lord may be regarded as the true founder of the city, to grant a Charter
Benidorm Puebla
on May 8, 1325, built the castle and the town.
