Biar

The small town of Biar, with its monumental Arabic castle, is one of the better-preserved medieval towns in and in the Valencian Community.
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  • Type: Village with 3,370 residents
  • Description: human settlement in L’Alt Vinalopó / El Alto Vinalopó, Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain
  • Also known as: “03043”, “Биар”, and “Бяр”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Castle of Biar and Aquaduct of Biar.

Castle
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The stands on a hillock overlooking the town of Biar, in the comarca of Alt Vinalopó.

Photo: flamenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Town hall
Photo: Qoan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cañada and Campo de Mirra.

Village
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or La Canyada is a Spanish municipality in the… is situated 6 km northwest of Biar.

Village
Photo: Qoan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or El Camp de Mirra, officially El Camp… is situated 6 km north of Biar.

Biar

Latitude
38.6305° or 38° 37′ 50″ north
Longitude
-0.7647° or 0° 45′ 53″ west
Population
3,370
Elevation
663 metres (2,175 feet)
Open location code
8CCXJ6JP+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306370760
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6355419
Wiki­data ID
Q1763764
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Biar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Biar”
  • Arabic: “بيار”
  • Aragonese: “Biar”
  • Armenian: “Բիար”
  • Asturian: “Biar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Byar”
  • Basque: “Biar”
  • Catalan: “Biar”
  • Cebuano: “Biar”
  • Chechen: “Бьяр”
  • Chinese: “比亚尔”
  • Chinese: “比亞爾”
  • Dutch: “Biar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيار”
  • Esperanto: “Biar”
  • Finnish: “Biar”
  • French: “Biar”
  • Galician: “Biar”
  • Georgian: “ბიარი”
  • German: “Biar”
  • Hungarian: “Biar”
  • Interlingua: “Biar”
  • Irish: “Biar”
  • Italian: “Biar”
  • Kazakh: “Bʹyar”
  • Kazakh: “Бьяр”
  • Kazakh: “بيار”
  • Ladin: “Biar”
  • Lithuanian: “Bjaras”
  • Lombard: “Biar”
  • Malay: “Biar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Biar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Biar”
  • Persian: “بیار”
  • Polish: “Biar”
  • Portuguese: “Biar”
  • Russian: “Бьяр”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیار”
  • Spanish: “Biar”
  • Swedish: “Biar”
  • Tatar: “Бьяр”
  • Turkish: “Biar”
  • Ukrainian: “Біар”
  • Urdu: “بیار”
  • Uzbek: “Biar”
  • Venetian: “Biar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Biar”

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