Village
Massamagrell is a municipality in the province of Valencia, in the comarca of L'Horta Nord, 15 kilometres from the capital, with 17,566 inhabitants (INE 2025). Of Andalusi origin, it was an alquería that after the Christian conquest received a founding charter in 1271 under the rule of the Order of Calatrava; in 1646 it had barely 500 inhabitants, a figure that had grown to 2,852 by around 1897. It retains a Capuchin convent founded in 1596 and a neoclassical church of 1797 with a rococo façade. A monument from 1954 commemorates Father Luis Amigó, founder in the village of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters.
Activity
The Fallas of Massamagrell, in the L'Horta Nord comarca, bring together seven fallas committees (plaza Inmaculada, el Tro, Les Casetes, L'Amistat, Rei en Jaume, la Raval and Mas de Grell) and more than 2,000 falleros and falleras, making it one of the most crowded festive events in the municipality. They are held during the month of March with street parades, mascletàs, firework displays and the Offering to the Virgin of the Desamparados, and culminate on the night of Saint Joseph with the traditional cremà, in which the fallas monuments are burned.
Monument
Parish church located on Plaza de la Constitución in Massamagrell, in the comarca of l'Horta Nord, whose temple dates from 1797, in the middle of the 18th century. It has a square-plan baroque tower 47.5 metres high up to the tip, with a classical decorative finial and Doric-style pilasters on the semicircular arches, and houses five bells known as the Cimbolet, the Marina, the Valenciana, the Secana and the Saguntina. The priest and painter Joan Celda de la Visitació, head of the parish between 1980 and 1995, left examples of his work on the walls of the temple. The building holds the status of Bien de Relevancia Local (a regional heritage-protection listing in the Comunitat Valenciana).
Monument
The convent of la Magdalena, or of the Capuchins, of Massamagrell (Valencia) was founded in 1596 by the patriarch Sant Joan de Ribera on the site of the old 15th-century hermitage of la Magdalena, around which the conventual complex was later built. In 1665 the painter Jeroni Jacint Espinosa made for the Capuchins his most important work, La última comunión de la Magdalena, today in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, of which a copy is kept in the presbytery. The cistern cloister, from the second half of the 18th century, is an irregular square with a gallery covered by a groin vault, and its central courtyard holds a fired-clay image of the Immaculate Conception dating from after 1939. The cemetery, from 1883, houses a simple chapel.
Monument
Sculpture by José Esteve Edo dedicated to Father Luis Amigó, founder of the Convent of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of Massamagrell, unveiled on 17 October 1954 in the Plaza de la Constitución of the village where he was born. The work shows Father Luis alongside two boys and a girl. A Capuchin friar born in Massamagrell in 1854 and who died in Godella in 1934, he founded several religious congregations and devoted his life to theological and pastoral work in various parts of Spain.
Curiosity
Massamagrell received its settlement charter in 1271 under the Order of Calatrava, which at the time held dominion over the place. Earlier, in 1238, King James I had already granted the settlement to several individuals after the conquest. In 1392 the Crown ceded the rights it still held to Raimundo Boïl, whose family later acquired the rights of the Order of Calatrava in 1426 and criminal jurisdiction in 1437.
Activity
The Fallas of Massamagrell are held in March, organised by seven fallas committees -plaza Inmaculada, el Tro, Les Casetes, L'Amistat, Rei en Jaume, la Raval and Mas de Grell- that bring together more than 2,000 falleros and falleras. The events include parades in traditional costume, mascletàs, firework castles, street parades and the Offering to the Virgin of the Forsaken. The festival culminates on the night of Saint Joseph with the cremà, in which the seven fallas monuments are reduced to ashes.