The scruffy little town about 10 miles away - worst place i've been to in the 30 days of being here.
Even the dustbins are trying to get out of the place.
What's here ?
Bigastro is a traditional village of the Vega Baja. Like all its neighbours the heart of life is set around the church square.
The church is the Church of Virgin of Bethlehem and a sculpture of Saint Joachim of Salzillo.
Near to Bigastro is La Pedrera recreation area with mountain bike trails, and barbecue areas.
There is a small market on Thursday mornings
How'd it get here ?
Formed in 1701 as the home for 24 families. Has around 7,000 residents.
Most famous resident being Francisco Grau Vegara – author of the Spanish National Anthem.
Today -
On the CV91 Orihuela road until the Algorfa left turn and up until the CV920 right turn through the bottom of Algorfa, through Benejuzar, through Jacarilla and Bigastro is the next village on.
Bigastro is different a lots of the other villages i've been to as everything it has to offer is located on small streets rather than one big high street.
It's also different to other places as this is a scruffy little town that must have missed out on council grants when the government was dishing them out - everything seems run down and its the worst place ive been to in the last 4 weeks - hence the entrance sign to the town with the dustbins.
On the outskirts there are a few big muebles (furniture) stores in the Parque Empresarial Apatel industrial estate.
When you enter the town there's a big Perales and Ferrer Factory (pears?) and another that sells baths and kitchens.
The Bigastro square - plaza constitucion - has a music sculpture with a scroll and harp - dated 14-Oct-2001, next is the Casa Constitorial and then the Church itself. Also in the square is a Cam bank, Rural Central bank and Cafe vai ven.
On the next street is a farmacia and MEM - Mobiliario Interiorismo y Disero, cafe bar las tasca.
There is the Parque huerto del cura square with a band stand, auditorium and peluqueria (hair). Cafe roma, bar toni, grocers shop, passarela pizza, pub blu, pub avalon with Guinness and Murphys advertised and a large red brick building the social club in the plaza de la concordia.
A couple of bazar asia, solicitor, renault dealer, car shop (like a halfords), a big hiperber supermarket (shut down) and a kids playground - with graffiti all over it.
On another street there is a school caja murcia, lots more flyposting, electric goods shops, relax disco pub, tabacos, BBVA and La Caxia banks, cafe cocoa, heladeria, panaderia, confiteria, cafe los candiles and local office of PSOE political party.
So, definitely not worth another trip here until they get the place tidied up - first impressions and all that - didn't see anything about Francisco Grau Vegara who wrote the Spanish National Anthem. Decided to find La Pedrera recreation area with 'mountain bike trails, and barbecue areas' and see what beautiful sights could be found there.
The recreation area is about a mile and a half out of the town and signposted. They must have a market here and also there's a recent block of houses - some left half built to keep with tradition - oh and a nice map of the Pedrera park - although its got graffiti over it so pretty much useless.
The place itself is ok, play area for the kids, BBQ's to use, toilets - with Bigstro graffiti all over them - but i think if you have absolutely nothing else to find to do on a day then it could be nice to spend a couple of hours around the walks/trails and have a picnic afterwards - maybe.
You could also feed the ducks although i think they'd prefer their duck pond being fixed.
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