Guadasséquies

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Altitude (m): 155

Population: 444

Surface (km²): 3

Postal Code: 46839

Demonym: guadassequià, guadassequiana

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GUADASSÉQUIES A tour through the vineyards and waters.

Linked from its origin to the river Albaida, Guadassequies is presented as a 'village of river'. A small municipality in the region crossed by water and where the river widens in the form of artificial lake, thanks to the construction of the dam at Bellús. This village of no more than 460 inhabitants has dedicated his life to the irrigation of the orchards of the Four Villages ditch, which takes water from the river Albaida.

HISTORY

On the road to Játiva there have been found remains of vessels of terra sigilata, and in the area of the Carasol there are vestiges of a Roman villa. It does not appear in the “Llibre del Repartiment” of the conquest of Jaime I, but in 1353 was acquired by Bernat Ferrer the old Arab farm from Pedro the Ceremonious. In the XVI century was owned by the manors of Ramón Sanz de la Llosa and San Ramón; Then passed to the Cruilles and lately to the marquises of Mirasol, until the abolition of the manors in the XIX century. It belonged to Játiva and to the governorship of the Júcar until 1707. Soon would become part of the Province of Játiva until 1833 when it became independent as municipality in the context of the new territorial division of Spain.