Terrateig

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Altitude (m): 254

Population: 300

Surface (km²): 6

Postal Code: 46842

Demonym: terrategí, terrategina

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TERRATEIG A genuine and singular people

Those of Terrateig are known by the word 'cagarneres', in reference to the small bird of beautiful singing that seeks raconcitos with water to rest. Everything in this municipality of the Vall d'Albaida has a special flavor, from the stories that are told in the streets and that pass from mothers to children, to the neighbors who live there and fight to maintain the uniqueness of their people above all. Terrateig has a lot to discover. But we highlight three reasons why you visit, if you have not yet done, this town of the pass: the party of Joanet, the office of margin and Casimir Romero, one of the terrategins most esteemed by the neighbors.

HISTORY

There is information about the old occupation of this municipal termonly from the Second Iron Age, since the IVth century a. C., as it evidenced by the existence of remains of the Iberian period in the Tossal, high to the left of the entrance to the Coll de Llautó, a strait that communicates the Vall de Albaida with the orchard of Gandía.At the beginning of the last century, Isidro Ballester Tormo located the ruins of a possible village from which he collected numerous fragments of pottery, among them, a conical glass made by turning, with vestiges painted with horizontal lines. In this same point, possibly by continuity of its occupation, appear also remains of Roman time.