Festivals in Bédar: Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, Día de Andalucía, Carnival, Día de la Vieja, Semana Santa, Fiestas de San Gregorio, Día del Emigrante and Fiestas en Honor a la Virgen de la Cabeza.

Bédar has a strong mining past which is evident in the area of El Pinar (which has now been urbanized), from which the first cableway in the province was erected in 1888. This cableway ran to the blast furnaces of Garrucha. Bédar now has around 920 inhabitants. Although we do not know when the town was founded, the origins of Bédar date back to the Moorish period, when it was part of Vera.