Alfarrasí

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Altitude (m): 197

Population: 1

Surface (km²): 6

Postal Code: 46893

Demonym: alfarrasiner, alfarrasinera

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ALFARRASÍ The Angel of the Rope

Alfarrasí is a municipality with about 1,300 inhabitants that offers many singularities in the Vall d'Albaida region. The town is home to one of the most powerful plastic industries in the area, with companies that years ago, carried their production everywhere and, indirectly, the name of their town also. With a local bullfighter on his list of famous people, Isidoro Martí Flores, Alfarrasí has two music bands and two music schools; with a tourist stamp called the The four River Villages and with an Angel of the Rope that seeks to be of Local Tourist Interest. These are only three reasons why it is worth visiting Alfarrasí, if you have not already done so.

HISTORY

Alfarrasí, is a town of Arab origin, the word etymologically (called the word alẖarráṣ) means, to calculate the valuequantity of a crop (in Spanish alfarrazar, in Valencian alfarrassar). With the expulsion of the Moors it remained practically depopulated until 1625, when it was repopulated by 24 families, who settled in the main square. During the Muslim domination, Alfarrasí was formed by a farmhouse and the Rahal Alcayd, particular property of the caid of the medina of Xàtiva. The origin of Alfarrasí is recorded in 1239,many years before the conquest of King Jaime I, which is dated 1244. From 1244 to 1707 belonged to the Government of Xativa and depended ecclesiastically, until 1542 on Benigànim.Its first territorial lord was D. Llorenç Rocafull. According to the book of distribution, the first settlers were D. Guerrero, Gil de Alarcón, Juan de Agreda and Martin del Rey. In the middle of the S. XVIII, the lordship of Alfarrasí was sold in public auction, to the house of Fuente Clara to pay the creditors of the lord. The real temporal lordship was granted to the Counts of Faura. The “agermanados” visited Alfarrasí, taking great quantities of wheat, barley, oil and livestock in order to stay in the Castle of Játiva. The old texts highlight the strategic military location of the town, in fact, in 1813, during the War of Independence, the Plaza Mayor served as a parade ground for French soldiers. In addition, the troops settled in a nearby place, that assumed the name of “the battery”, since it served as unit of shot of the artillery. From 1822 to 1833, with the new territorial distribution of the Cortes of Cadiz, happened to belong to the Province of Játiva. In 1900 the population increased until the 886 inhabitants, thanks to the wine prosperity. The passage of the N340 road, built between 1860 and 1862 attracted the construction of new houses. Despite this, the number of inhabitants decreased again to 675 inhabitants, because of the crisis of the phylloxera of 1910. After the crisis, and thanks to the Manchegan, Andalusian and the Valley of Ayora immigration (who came looking for Industry), it increased the population up to 1200 inhabitants.