Bufali

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Altitude (m): 239

Population: 175

Surface (km²): 3

Postal Code: 46891

Demonym: bufalità, bufalitana

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BUFALI The garden of the Muslims

177 are the inhabitants who live in Bufali but being few help them to celebrate festivities whenever they have opportunity and give support when needed. The bufalitanes are kind and live very united. Thanks to this they have recovered traditions such as the Carnestoltes festivity, carried forward by a group of friends from the village. The brotherhood is one of the main characteristics of those people who live in Bufali, a town of agricultural tradition but today it has diversified. The Route of the Masos, the history of the Musical Union and the Pericana festivity are three reasons why you should visit Bufali if you have not already done so.

HISTORY

The oldest news of BUFALI date from the time of the Arab domination, when the Kingdom was conquered by King Jaime I of Aragon. That it was an Arab farmstead is proved by the very name of BUFALI that, Sanchís Sivera ("Geographical-statistical nomenclator of the towns of the Diocese of Valencia", Valencia 1922),calls it Bohali . But the first written testimonies are found in the "Llibre del repartiment" of King Jaime I where the place of BUFALI is registered in different ways: Aboalit, Huet Aboalit, Huet de Bocalich, Huet Abohaliol, Vuet AlbohalytVechdebocalich. The first gentleman of BUFALI goes back to the XVIII century in which Felipe III creates the Albaida Marquisate.

BUFALI belonged, then, to the Albaida Marquisate, dedicating itself to agriculture, paying its fief and being a devout village as evidenced by the fact that in the time of Patriarch San Juan de Ribera, his church was an annexe of Montaverner since 1535, constituting a rectory of moors with the village of Calceta; but because of being far away and having to cross the river Albaida, which was often impossible to wade, it was dismembered and erected in an independent parish in 1574, with the invocation of Our Virgin of Loreto, whose church, which was demolished, was rebuilt then the same as the abbey.