Xàtiva

Xativa ( Valencian, [ ʃativa ]; Spanish Xativa [ xatiβa ] ) is a town in the province of Valencia in Spain. The city has 29,400 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013) and one of the culturally and historically important towns in the region. Xativa is also the county town of La Costera region.

History

Xativa was founded by the Iberians. After the Romans and the Moors in 1244 James I of Aragon conquered the city where he created an important archive. By the beginning of the 18th century, the city experienced its golden age. Xativa is famous because here in 1150, the first paper was produced on European soil by the Moors.

Since the city had taken the side of the Habsburgs in the War of Spanish Succession, it was sacked in 1707 after one month of siege. Women and children suffered in the town church by fire. That is why today the inhabitants Xàtivas " socarrats " ( burnt / burned ) are called. The rest of the population was resettled in the Mancha. Xativa lost by the Bourbons the previous privileges, even the city's name was changed in honor of King Philip V in " Nueva Colonia de San Felipe ". Only in 1811, the old name was restored by the Parliament of Cadiz. The painting hangs in the City Museum of Philip V of Xativa still to this day in protest with the head down.

Attractions

  • The Castle (El Castillo ) extends over the entire back of the mountain south of the old town situated Vernissa. Here are the remains found from almost every era of Spanish history, by the Iberians of the Romans and Moors through to Gothic. South of the castle hill lies the valley and the village of Bixquert.
  • The twisty, Arab -looking old town at the foot of Vernissa with numerous historical buildings and palaces and churches and fountains is a protected monument.
  • The construction of the three-aisled, the city dominating Collegiate Church (La Seo ) began in 1596 on the foundations of a mosque.
  • The small church of San Feliu from the 13th century overlooking the old town, a Valencian collection of paintings from the XIV to XVI. Demonstrate century.
  • The City Museum (Museo Municipal de l' Almodí ) in a Gothic granary shows both archaeological collections, as well as art from antiquity to the present.
  • A little off the beaten path, but still within the city limits Xàtivas is the over 8000 year old cave Cova Negra, an important historical reference.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Alexander VI. (1431-1503), pope from 1492 to 1503
  • Diego Ramírez de Arellano († 1633), astronomer
  • Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), painter
  • San Jacinto Castañeda ( 1743 -? ), Dominican friar
  • Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva (1765-1824), historian
  • Francisco de Paula Martí (1761-1827), engraver
  • Bruno Lomas (1940-1990), singer
  • Raimon ( born 1940 ), singer
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