Alboraia

Alboraia (official name, in Valencian/Catalan; Alboraya in Castillan) is a Valencian commune, located in the Comarque of the Northern Horta , which preserves all the typical savor of the villages of the Valencian horta ; one defines it as " The door of Horta Nord".

It is next to in north the communes of Almàssera and Meliana, in the south, the town of Valence, in the west, Tavernes Blanques and in the east, the Mediterranean, on approximately 4 km of beaches, of the Northern Platja , which touches the new arranged beaches of Meliana, with Patacona, beach close to Malva-rosa, one of the urban beaches of the town of Valence.

the common preserve still of broad agricultural zones, with intensive cultures which constitute the essential and traditional richness of this ground. With the years, the arable land extension was gradually reduced, because of urban pressure and of various economic policies of character official and autonomic which always do not have the adhesion of the population. The grounds of irrigated cultures, relatively important still, are divided into eight sectors: Calvet, Dessamparats, Mar, Massamarda, Masquefa, Miracle, Savoia and Vera.

Demography, economic activity and political situation

the population increased these last years much, passing from 11267 inhabitants in 1986 to 18656 in 2002, of which 58,84% stated to know to speak the Valencian at the time of the census of the year 2001.

the economic sectors are distributed in the following way (figures of 1994): 45,80% in the services, 33% in industry, 16,70% in agriculture and finally 3,60% in the building.

the municipal elections of May 2004 gave the absolute majority to the PP, with 9 advisers; PSOE obtained from it 3, SIA (Sí Alboraia) 2, UV 1, Block-EV 1 and Entesa 1.

List of the mayors, since the first democratic elections.

History

Alboraia was a farm ( alqueria ) Moslem that the king Jacques I {{er}} granted the bishop of Osca, Vidal de Canyelles. Teresa Gil de Vidaura, became about it owner by an exchange of grounds with the aforementioned bishop, exchanges thanks to which it increased the inheritance of Jacques (Jaume) of Xèrica, wire which it had of the king Jacques II. In 1331, the property passed in the hands of Gilabert de Sanoguera, which was at the origin of the seigniory. During XVe century, this one entered the bosom of the Crown. On its grounds is the village deserted Rafelterràs. The church was built in XVe century, under the invocation of holy Marie. Beside the Barranc de Carraixet (Ravine of Carraixet) draws up the hermitage dedicated to the Mare of Déu dels Desemparats (Virgin of Forsaken); its first construction dates from the year 1414, on a ordering of the General advice of Valence going back to 1400, in order to devote the cemeteries where the torture victims and the poor were buried. The current building is more recent.

the principal activity is agriculture, and the most important culture is that of the '' xufa '' or xufla , element essential to famous the orxata of Alboraia. The enumeration of 1646 counts 88 houses; in 1794, the Cavanilles botanist quantifies the population with 560 inhabitants; in the middle of the XIXe century, the Madoz historian gives the figure of 3301 inhabitants; in 1922, Sanchis Sivera, cleaned geographer, raises 4265 of them.

Festivals

the festivals of Alboraia are known in all the district and attract a many crowd of all the close villages. Starting at the end of the first week of July, they extend throughout the week which follows and are accompanied by activities by a great religious and entertaining interest.

By special papal privilege, Alboraia celebrates the Corpus Christi, or Corpus Christi , out of its official date (second Sunday after Pentecost), i.e. Sunday which precedes on July 10th, celebrates of saint Christophe, the owner of the locality.

Around the great festivals, one organizes a large fair, during which the cultural groups of the city are prosuisent.

But that is only one beginning. The festive calendar of Alboraia is one of most complete district of the Northern Horta . Its festivities it Procession of the Palms of the Palm Sunday, the Way of Cross of the Horta , the processions Thursday and Good Friday and the Holy Meeting of the Sunday of Resurrection - are known and admired in all the canton.

the streets, the districts and the hermitages have clean festivals, dependant on their devotions particular, between which are detached the Passa from Saint Christophe, first Sunday of May, and the pilgrimage of Monday of Pentecost to the hermitage of the Miracle dels Peixets (Miracle of small fish).

the Feux of Midsummer's Day start the festive cycle of the summer and open the way with the Great Festivals of Alboraia, which are held around on July 10th, in honor of patron saint, Christophe, and of the Corpus Christi.

These estival festivities result from the concentration of various local festivals over one week of popular rejoicings, during which religious demonstrations - procession of the the Blessed Sacrament, Roc saint, the Virgin of the Assomption, with Christophe saint, accompanied by the blessing of the cars, with saint Isidore plowman, accompanied by the blessing of the animals mingle with profane activities like the day with the old people, the concerts, the fun fairs, of the sporting events, traditional Trophée of Galotxa (an alternative of the trinquet, or winds into a ball Basque), of the young cows and the emboulé bull, the day of the orxata , processions of, the exposures, the cultural activities and the popular traditions. The festivities of Saplaia Port in the honor of the Virgin of Carmel and the devotion with the Christ of the Providence of August 6th close the estival cycle.

the festivals of the autumn, such as those, inter alia, of the complex of Patacona, the conscripts, at the Saint-Michel, of holy Cecile, the Miraculous Virgin, reopen the festive calendar which, like every year, finish with the week of Christmas and the change of year.

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The passed is a bearing tank of the religious statues at the time of the great processions, particularly at the time of the Holy Week. The Castilian knows the same thing under the name of paso .

Inheritance and architecture

Alboraia still preserves in good of its districts the typical savor of the villages, in addition to the attraction which its maritime face constitutes extending on almost four kilometers, offering two residential cores, Port Saplaia and Patacona , separated by the mouth of the Barranc del Carraixet . Port Saplaia is equipped with a nautical port which makes it possible to wet the boats with the door even dwellings, in a residential complex with the hot traditional colors of the ocher and ground of his, frays of let us tons blue and pale pink.

Of its monumental inheritance, we can admire the parish church of the Assumption of Notre-Dame (XVIIIe S.), style baroque and medieval origin. The frontage, flanked of a bell-tower on the right, is out of cut stone. Inside we find three naves and their side chapels; the central nave presents a vault in half-cradle. Alboraia counts various hermitages, of which those of Very the Saint-Christ of the Hearts ( Santíssim Crist of Ànimes ), of the Virgin of the Pillar ( Mare of Déu del Pilar ), given up, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Holy-Bores, recently restored, of the Virgin of the Pains, Saint-Christophe, etc They belong to an important artistic historical heritage and, rich in sculptures, paintings, retables and ceramics.

the civil architecture of Alboraia is represented by the urban houses modernistic of the end of the XIXe century and the beginning of XXe, like by the farms morisque S and the pastoral, pilot houses of a deep past, offering small retables dévotionnels out of ceramics.

The orxata

Alboraia is known everywhere in the world like “the cradle and the source of the orxata ”, because one there works out, says one, best the orxata of xufes die tch ''' or ''' fés of the world. It is undoubtedly its most characteristic feature there, at least out of its walls.

There exists in all the Valencian Pays of the artisanal orxateries which produce directly the orxata starting from the raw material, the xufa , and of the two other exclusive ingredients: water and sugar. On the other hand, the industrial drinks that one finds in the supermarkets and other large surfaces, generally under the castillanized name of horchata of chufa, are of a doubtful authenticity, because their composition enter of the ingredients which do not have anything to make in true a orxata . Thus, the most known mark of horchata industrial, Chufi , introduced there proteins of milk, less expensive than the xufa . That is not without consequence on the taste, as one can suspect it. Although this type of practice has the downstream of the Denominació d' Origen d' Orxata of Valencia , it is obvious that the orxata should not contain milk, whose true amateur detects the taste at once.

Internal bonds

Valence

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