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The inverted portrait of Felipe V

Xàtiva, La Costera, Valencia

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The inverted portrait of Felipe V

Historical milestone · Xàtiva, La Costera, Valencia

Image of Xàtiva, not of the place itself.

In the Almudín of Xàtiva, seat of the municipal museum, a portrait of Felipe V hangs upside down. The city thus keeps alive, deliberately, the memory of the fire of 1707 and of the change of name the monarch imposed on it after the War of the Spanish Succession.

1707

Photo: Cristina Carmona (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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