Oliva (Valence)

For the commune of the Canaries, to see Oliva

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Oliva is a city of the Valencian Communauté, located in the Comarque of Safor, in the Province of Valence, in (Spain).

Geography

Oliva is located at the extreme south of the Province of Valence. It divides, from its topography, in three distinct zones: the mountain, the agricultural plain occupied by the horticultural cultures and a marshy zone in south-east. The east coast low and sandy, with sand beaches end, except for that which is more in the south, where starts the Province of Alicante. The climate is Mediterranean, with soft winters and pleasant springs.

Part of the communal territory belongs to the Natural park of Marjal de Pego-Oliva.

One reaches Oliva, since Valence by borrowing the N-332 main road.

Districts

The Playa de Oliva (beach of Oliva) constitutes a second important urban core on the territory of the commune of Oliva.

Communes bordering

The town of Oliva is surrounded by the commune following: Alqueria of Comtessa, Does It of In Carròs, Piles and Villalonga, in the Province of Valence, and Adsubia, Dénia and Pego in the Province of Alicante.

History

Constituted in county by Alphonse Magnanime, in 1449, it had for first Master the count Francisco Gilabert de Centelles. The expulsion of the Moors, in 1609, caused large twists at the city leaving the fields and the houses to the abandonment. Oliva knew a difficult period then, without however being among the most affected cities. It will be necessary to await the 18th century, and its unification with from now on disappeared the kingdom from Valence, so that the city starts a takeoff, which will not be based as well on the economic aspect as on the cultural aspect.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, Oliva was the city most populated Safor, before being joined and exceeded by Gandía.

Administration

List mayors, since the first democratic elections.

Demography

Economy

Oliva has a very old agricultural tradition, in particular in the culture of citrus fruits, and the oranges in particular which it exports in the whole world. These last years, the tourist sector however made important great strides, cash for a considerable share of the incomes of the city.

Monuments

Of its historical past, Oliva preserves a religious building dedicated to Santa María Mayor (with invaluable files), the Church of Saint-Rock Iglesia de San Roque ) (built on the old mosque), the Vault of the Vierge of Rebolet and its old convent, the hermitages of Saint Antoine and Holy Vincent, as well as the famous chimneys of the Camino dels Rejolars (Valencian, way of the horlojers), and the Municipal Market.

Oliva knew to keep medieval time the turns of defense which were located on its wall, séparan the city of the fields neighborhood, the castle of Holy Anne and that of Rebollet (destroyed by a great earthquake in 1598), the houses of noble in the Hold Tamarit, the downtown area, where one finds old houses typical of architecture Valencian. Así como el antiguo barrio mozárabe LED that our quedan known callejuelas estrechas there sin disposición geométrica, of that are estandarte the Hold Hoz, which debe known number knew formed.

Among the monuments civil, one can announce the Salle of the Latinity, built thanks to the support of Gregorio Mayans, to the XVIII E century, and which is used today as school.

Local festivals

Fiestas Mayores . Oliva celebrates each year, the Santísimo Cristo of Fe , the May 3rd and the Vierge of Rebollet, the September 8th, both patron saint of the city, with Saint François d' Assise. Nowadays, these two festivals become again of the local festivals, when ellee does not fall Saturday or Sunday.

Other festivities exist in Oliva, where one celebrates since the beginning of the years 1970, the Moros there Cristianos, in July.

Famous people born in Oliva

Gregorio Mayans (named in load of the Library royal in 1733),
Gabriel Císcar, admiral, Minister for the Navy and one of the three regents during the absence of the King, during the war against Napoleon.
Vicente Parra, actor of theater and cinema.
Francisco Brines, poet, prize winner of the Premio of mow Letras Valencianas in 1967, of the Premio Nacional of mow Letras Españolas in 1999 and member of the Real Academia of Lengua Española (equivalent of the French Academy), since 2006.

External bonds (in Spanish)

Town hall of Oliva
Virtual Oliva
Federación Valenciana de Municipios there Provincias - Tourist Guide

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