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Several thousand residents and tourists gathered on the 30th September 2023 to witness the Entry of the Moors and Christians, which took place from 8 p.m. through the main streets of the centre of Benidorm, with an itinerary that started from Tomás Ortuño and ran through Venus, Ruzafa, Martínez Alejos and Gambo to the Plaza de la Hispanidad.

The platform was located in Martínez Alejos, at the height of Pal Street, and was chaired by Mayor Toni Pérez, the Councilor for Fiestas, Mariló Cebreros, members of the local corporation, the president of the Festes Majors Patronals, Vicente Solaz and representatives of the UNDEF among other personalities.

The parade began with the float of the Moorish ambassador, who was followed by the different 'filaes': Tuaregs, Tagarins, Benidarhims and Nasrids, who preceded the pageantry of the Moorish queen and the queen's float. On the Christian side, the float paraded with the Christian warden, the Filá Cruzados and the Filá Cavallers de la Baronía, to which the Christian queen belonged, who appeared with her pageantry made up of the queens and ladies of the Festes Majors Patronals, Angélica Morenilla and Daniela Talavera.

The staging of the 'pirate attack on Benidorm' kicked off the city's 2023 Moors and Christians festivities. Hundreds of people gathered on Levante beach to experience this event that symbolises the arrival of the armies of the crescent to Benidorm.

Hundreds of people have filled the streets of Benidorm this Saturday to witness or parade in the Parade, the central act of Benidorm Pride, celebrations organized by the LGBTIQ+ collective and which represent the culmination of the most important Pride weeks in Europe. The mayor Toni Pérez, together with the Valencian Generalitat Tourism Minister, Nuria Montes, have joined this protest parade, which they have followed from various points along the route together with other members of the municipal executive. 

Rainbow flags, costume, floats, trucks and many people walking have shown the most diverse and welcoming face of Benidorm, a European benchmark for LGBTIQ+ tourism. Not in vain, the City Council, Visit Benidorm and the organisation have estimated the number of visitors who have come to the city expressly to experience these days of festivities and vindication at more than 20,000 people, mostly from the United Kingdom, but also from other points of Spain and Europe, with stays that in many cases extend up to fifteen days. 

The parade has covered a stretch of Paseo de Levante and Avenida del Mediterráneo, Plaza de la Hispanidad and Parque de l'Aigüera, until it reached the Julio Iglesias Amphitheatre, where the party continued throughout the evening.

Benidorm had a great party on Saturday 13th May with the Benidorm Fest Euroclub that was held in the Plaza de la Hispanidad and that served to warm up engines for the Eurovision festival that took place in Liverpool. 

On Thursday, 1st June, Avenida Beniardá has been definitively opened to road traffic after a little over eight months closed to undertake the works of its burial as it passes through the TRAM track. An act attended by the acting mayor Toni Pérez, accompanied by members of the municipal corporation and hundreds of residents who had gathered to take a brief walk through the renovated section

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