Bèlgida

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Altitude (m): 268

Population: 694

Surface (km²): 17

Postal Code: 46868

Demonym: belgidà, Bèlgidana

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BÈLGIDA The viewpoint of Valley

Enric Valor remembered with great appreciation his days in Bèlgida, when he was visiting a family home. In the maturity, he dedicated the fable 'The blacksmith of Bèlgida' in honor to that town where he played and enjoyed as a child. Bèlgida has something that inloves those who visit it, a municipality of no more than 695 inhabitants. We wanted to highlight three reasons that will take you to visit this beautiful municipality crossed from south to north by the La Mata River: its pioneering production of organic farming, the poetry of the writer Antoni Espí and the popular and funny Carnestoltes.

HISTORY

The villa is located in the flat part of the term, next to the Albaida-Gandía highway, in the northern side of the Sierra de Benicadell, where the surface of the term is flat in the northern sector and mountainous in the wedge that forms the slopes of Benicadell, reaching the crest of the mountain range, forming the limit with the province of Alicante. The main heights are: Alt de la Font Freda (754 m), Alt Cremat (894 m) and Alt Redó (994 m). It crosses the term, from south to north, the river of the Mata, to which flow the ravines of Bélgida ,the Molí and the Redaguanya, and which give their waters to the Mycenae River. Within the term are the sources of Grapat, Baix and Freda. In its term have been abundant prehistoric deposits (eneolíticos) that have provided finds of the Iberian and Roman culture. Its origin is still of dubious determination, although it seems probable that its foundation was Iberian. In 1250, King Jaime I incorporated it into the space dominated by the Christians, allowing the survival of the Arabs who inhabited it. From the fourteenth century it formed part of the barony, which with the same name belonged to the noble house of the Bellvís, on which they exercised the civil and criminal jurisdiction, as well as the territorial domain that was notably increased after the expulsion of the Moorish population in 1609. Its place was occupied by the 65 new christian settlers who accepted the Carta Puebla of 1611.