Xàtiva

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Xàtiva municipality
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Xàtiva (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Valencia
Province : Valencia
Coordinates 38 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 31 ′  W
Height : 115  msnm
Area : 76.60 km²
Residents : 29,231 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 381.61 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 46800
Municipality number  ( INE ): 46145
administration
Website : www.xativa.es
Location of the municipality
Localització de Xàtiva respecte de la Costera.png

Xàtiva ( Valencian , [ ˈʃativa ]; Spanish Játiva [ ˈxatiβa ]) is a medium- sized town in the province of Valencia in Spain . The city has 29,231 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and is one of the culturally and historically most important cities in the region. Xàtiva is also the district capital of the La Costera region .

history

Xàtiva was once founded by the Iberians . After the Romans and Moors , Jaime I of Aragon conquered the city in 1244 and created an important archive there. The city experienced its heyday until the beginning of the 18th century. Xàtiva is famous because the Moors produced the first paper on European soil here around 1150 .

Since the city had sided with the Habsburgs in the War of the Spanish Succession , it was sacked in 1707 after a month-long siege. Women and children died by fire in the town church. That is why today the residents are called Xàtivas socarrats ("burned out"). The rest of the population was resettled in the Mancha . Xàtiva lost by the Bourbons the previous privileges, even the name of the city was named in honor of the king Felipe V in Nueva Colonia de San Felipe changed. It was not until 1811 that the old name could be restored by the Parliament of Cadiz . The painting of Philip V hangs upside down in protest in the city museum of Xàtiva to this day.

Attractions

Partial view of Játiva Castle
  • The castle (El Castillo) extends over the entire ridge of Mount Vernissa, south of the old town. Here you can find remains from almost every epoch of Spanish history, from the Iberians to the Romans and Moors to the Gothic. South of the castle hill is the valley and the district of Bixquert .
  • The winding, Arabic-style old town at the foot of the Vernissa with numerous historical buildings and palaces as well as churches and fountains is completely under monument protection.
  • Construction of the three-aisled church Colegiata (La Seo) , which dominates the city, began in 1596 on the foundations of a mosque.
  • The small church of San Feliu from the 13th century above the old town houses a Valencian collection of paintings from XIV. To XVI. Century.
  • The city museum (Museo Municipal de l'Almodí) in a Gothic granary shows archaeological collections as well as art from antiquity to the present.
  • Somewhat out of the way, but still in the urban area of ​​Xàtiva, is the more than 8,000 year old Cova Negra cave , an important historical site.

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Xàtiva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).