Montitxelvo

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Altitude (m): 267

Population: 656

Surface (km²): 8

Postal Code: 46842

Demonym: montitxelví, montitxelvina

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MONTITXELVO The history of the raisin.

Quiet, ideal to rest and enjoy nature. This is how they define the town located at the beginning of the Valley that gives its name to our region. Montichelvo and its 650 inhabitants enjoy a privileged location, in the laps of the Mariola and Benicadell ranges. Its innumerable natural landscapes of great ecological and forestry interest, its important hydraulic architecture, formed by medieval aqueducts and water mines, and its riuraus where the raisin was once made, are the main reasons to discover Montichelvo. We have highlighted these and their most illustrious character, the poet Joan Climent, as the reasons to visit the town if at this point you have not done it.

HISTORY

In 1343, Pedro el Ceremonioso donated the villa to Vidal de Vilanova, with a mere and mixed empire and high and low jurisdiction. Later, the manor passed to the Mercader family. The oldest known data on demography date back to the sixteenth century: in 1527 it had 40 houses inhabited by some 200 Moorish settlers, who in 1609 already had 75 houses, but the expulsion decree left them almost uninhabited. In 1646, only 32 houses had been repopulated. During the XVIII century the number of inhabitants increased considerably until arriving at the fifty one in 1794. A century later, in 1900 had 819 inhabitants. The Barony of Montichelvo whose antiquity dates back to 1533, comes from the bond founded by Don Miguel-Jerónimo Vives, Señor de Vergel (Valencia). It was rehabilitated in 1903 by Mr. Antonio Mercader and Tudela. Its current owner is Mr. Rafael Garrigues and Mercader, Grande de España, Marquis of Malferit and of the Vega de Valencia and Baron of Cheste (Ref: Cast of greatness and Spanish noble titles, Ed. 2008): I. Miguel Jerónimo Vives, 1 Baron de Montichelvo [Es1533] II. Antonio de Mercader y Tudela, 7. Marquis de Malferit [Es1690], Baron de Montichelvo [Es1533, rehab1903], b1861 d1934 III. Matilde Mercader and Vallier, 15. Baroness of Montichelvo [Es1533, succ1951], b1892 sive b1895 d1976 IV. Pascual de Mercader y Vallier, 8. Marques de Malferit [Es1697], b1893 V. Maria Luisa Mercader and Sanchez-Domenech, 9. Marquesa de Malferit [Es1690], b1932 d1997 VI. Rafael Garrigues y Mercader [etc], 10. Marqués de Malferit [Es1690], 11. Barón de Montichelvo [Es1533, succ1980m / 1981c], b1956 The title "Barone di Montichelvo" is also an Italian nobiliary title created by the Paternò Castello family (Book d'Oro della Nobilita Italiana, Edizione XXI, vol XXIV, 1995-1999, Rome, Collegio Araldico, Roman Araldico Institute).