Alcalà de Xivert

Alcalà de Xivert (Valencian name , Alcalá de Chivert in Castilian) is a common to the north of the Valencian community in Spain. It belongs to the Province of Castellón and more precisely to the area ( Comarque ) of the Baix Maestrat (Valencian name) ( Bajo Maeztrazgo in Castilian). Its population in 2005 is of 6.752 inhabitants.

Geography

Located between the Costa del Azahar and el interior Maestrazgo, it surprises by a landscape original, rich, various and full with contrasts, where the plains and the mountains alternate with the beaches and the rock zones of the littoral.

Its orography is made up mainly by two mountainous great systems which occupy and compose a good part of the municipal territory: the mountain of tired Atalayas in its portion N.O with heights like Atalaya Grossa (635 meters), and the sierra of Irta, parallel with the of the same sea origin, since Alcocebre with Peñíscola, formant of other minor undulations as the sierra of Chivert which occupies the territorial geographical center.

The hydrographic network, is characterized by a series from barrancos secos (dry ravines) (among which it is necessary to note the river Cuevas , also called in its last section San Miguel), and the ramblas (beds) del Mas , Valldancher , Seguer and Estopet among most important. The Cuevas river, with its mouth at sea, form a stony delta and a pond called " Estany".

One reaches Alcalà de Xivert since Castellón of Plana by taking N-340 or the AP-7.

Hamlets

On the territory of Alcalà de Xivert, one finds the hamlets:

Alcocebre .
Cape I Corb .
Tired Fuentes .

Localities bordering

The territory of Alcalà de Xivert is close to the following localities: Salsadella, Santa Magdalena de Pulpis, Peñíscola, Cuevas de Vinromá, Villanueva de Alcolea, Benlloch and Torreblanca, all in the Province of Castellón.

Demography

Administration

Economy

Industry is represented by the construction of pieces of furniture and its derivatives, factories of clothing, construction material deposits, metal workshops of reinforcements, automobile joineries, repair, mills with oil, as various local fruit stores where they are treated, conditioned and marketed. Also the sector of construction progressed much, appearing among the first local industries. The excellent beaches of its littoral bring a strong development of the tourist sector.

History

Many archaeological discoveries make it possible to affirm the human presence on the territory of Alcalá de Chivert since antiquity. A lithic Industry epipaleolithic, around 9000 av. J.C., was found in the cave dels Diablets , as well as Céramique of the median Neolithic era and a lithic industry of the Neolithic final. The énéolithique one one found remainders ceramic in the Cave of Torrera . One notes the presence of materials brought by the commercial people, like an Egyptian beetle in the necropolis of Solivella , as well as punic ceramics and Greek in various layers.

Iberian time , one finds abundant remainders archaeological: groups of dwellings like El Palau and El Tossalet , necropolis like Solivella , the most important layer of this period, and El baixador of Alcossebre , stones carrying of the inscriptions, ceramics remainders and metals with El Corral of Royo , Pulpis , Irta and Xivert , currencies with Regalfarí , Alcalá and Xivert , and dispersed tombs with Capicorp , Palaba and Alcossebre , which shows a dense network of settlement at that time.

The romanisation is noted by the presence of funerary stones with el Corral of Royo , White Corral and Almedixer , and by the way which north in the south, crossed the territory by the plain of Alcalá.

The medieval vestiges oldest are those of the Arab fortress of Chivert , whose walls of circumvallation of the urban core (Xe-XIIe centuries) accommodate the work of Templiers (XIIIe century). After the Reconquest, the Order of the Temple, organized the territory of the bailliage of Xivert with the concession of charters of repopulation ( carta puebla ) to the Muslim population in 1234, with the new Christian establishments of Alcalá (1251); Alcocebre (1261); Almedíjar and Castellnovo (1261). Among those quickly Alcalá was detached, which was transformed into chief town of the commandery. In the dissolution about the Temple, new the Order of Montesa, incorporated it in the Maestrazgo .

At the time modern, a series of attacks, fell down on the population: the district Moor of Alcalá de Chivert was ransacked by Estellés in 1521; in 1547 a pirate raid barbaresque is pushed back by the population of Alcalá, like another on the lathe of watchtower of Cape I Corp in 1586. Once joined together Commanderie with the Crown in 1592, and after the expulsion of the Morisque S, one tried to repopulate the castle of Chivert, which failed, and one had to join together this one, like Santa Magdalena de Pulpis, in Alcalá in 1632. Alcocebre, which had obtained its second charter of repopulation in 1330, was built-in 1663.

With the XIXe century took place the separation of Santa Magdalena de Pulpis and the great growth of the population which passed from 800 people to the time of Cavanilles, to more than 6.000 inhabitants in 1900. The XIXe century it was in first line in favor the cause carlist, (one will note in particular during the third war, Pasqual Cucala), reason for which the city was repressed hard, after the liberal victory. With the XXe century, after the disasters of the civil war, she lives herself to be inserted in an economic, favoured regression with the surplus by her agriculture of dry zone, situation which was modified appreciably since the Seventies by the extension of the irrigation and the rise of the Tourisme on the coast of Alcocebre and Cape I Corp.

Monuments and Places

Religious monuments

Church San Juan Bautista .

The parish church is an imposing building with the style Valencian baroque. One posed the first hones the April 14th 1736 and she was blessed thirty years afterwards. The plans are of the architect Jose Herrero; with construction the Masters V. Carbó worked there F. Garrafulla, then Juan Barceló, which completed it. She has a plan in Latin cross, with four spans in the central nave and of collateral, side chapels between the buttresses; she is covered by a semi-circular vault and a slender cupola on drum and pendentive with the top of the transept, like by cupolas on the side aisles. In the first span the vault of the Communion opens, in the plan in Greek cross. The frontage has a gate of the type retable baroque with a crowning with the profile mixtiligne, surmounted torches and monumental statue of the Archangel Saint Michel. Corresponding to the naves open three gates, the side ones are articulated by means of leant Tuscan columns; the central gate shows a superposition of free columns on pedestal.

Turn-Bell-tower .

On the line of the monumental frontage of the church rises the Turn-Bell-tower, " highest of the Kingdom of Valence". Construction began the August 15th 1784 and finished the June 14th 1803. It follows the plans of the architect Juan Barceló; after the death of this one, it was completed by Blas Teruel. The building, entirely made out of stone of size, is of octagonal plan in all its height; its barrel is articulated by buttresses on the sides and of the horizontal cords; at the base, three steps and a gate of raised access, with the statue of Sta. Bárbara. The access on the floor of the bells is done by a spiral staircase, and by another staircase, one arrives at the higher dependences. The bell-tower opens on each face by arcades lengthened in semicircular arch. Drawn up on lengthened pillars, draws up the last stage. Crowning is consisted an octagonal vault smoothes and a large ball at the top which is used as a basis for the statue of San Juan Bautista.

Capilla Virgen of los Desamparados . It was built in 1705, masonry and with a door in lowered arc, with the top of which there is a bay; at the top of a simple cornice, a bell is placed. The plan is of one alone nave, with four spans; first is covered by a cupola.

Hermitage of San Antonio .

Hermitage of Santa Lucía there San Benito .

Hermitage del Calvario .

Hermitage San Miguel .

Civil monuments

Castle of Chivert .

Put of Cultura .

El Prigó del Rey .

Torre Ebrí .

Torre of Cape I Corb .

Places

Tired Dunas .

Estany .

Sierra of Irta .

Beach of Mow Fuentes .

Beach LED Carregador .

Beach Romana .

Very Playas .

Playa del Moro .

Playa Tropicana .

Local festivals

San Antonio Abad . The festival day before of the saint (January 17th), one lights a large fire surmounted by a mannequin which represents the demon. Among the demonstrations, note the procession in which take part all mountings and other animals which must be blessed. Harnessed horses, decorated tanks, children with typical costumes, music of the " dolçaina I el tabalet " , compose a very coloured procession.

Carnival . The disguised balls, processions of children and adults, and the burial of the sardine are the most representative demonstrations.

San Pedro de Verona . Around the April 29th the festivals of the single people of the locality are celebrated. Merry festivals and sharp which see releasing it young cows in the streets.

Virgen of los Desamparados . Sponsor city (May). Procession, second Sunday of the month and the following.

Fires of the Saint Jean . Coinciding with the summer solstice, the longest day of the year (June 24th), one celebrates the festival of San Juan. The rite of fire sees the inhabitants lighting bonfires and burning domestic rejects.

Fiestas Employers' . In the honor of San Juan Bautista there el Sagrado Corazón de Jesús ; they are held during the last days of August, in Alcalá, and during the first days of September, in Alcocebre. The demonstrations are centered on the ancestral habit of the toros and are accompanied by a complete program by cultural activities, ludic and artistic.

Moros there Cristianos . Last weekend of September, around the festival of San Miguel. She recalls the old image of the confrontations between two people to the different religions and their later cohabitation. Let us note the scenic processions and representations.

Santa Lucía . December 13rd. It is about a typical pilgrimage and religious holiday in which people take part as well coming from Alcalá and Alcocebre as those from the other places from the comarque one. The festival begins the day before, when the elderly and the groups of young people meet the night, around many fires, to pass taken care.

San Antonio with Cape I Corb . Popular holiday and participative (August), during which the Association of the Inhabitants of Cape I Corb organizes play activities.

Gastronomy

External bonds

Instituto Valenciano de Estadística
Federación Valenciana de Municipios there Provincias - Guía Turística Of donde ha extraído información idiot known consentimiento.
'' País Valencià, poble has poble, comarca has comarca '', of Paco González Ramírez, donde extraído información idiot known consentimiento.
Web Oficial de Alcocebre
Web of turismo of Alcalá de Xivert in Comunidad Valenciana
Plane of Alcalà de Xivert by Mapquest

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