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What to see and do in Potries

What to see and do in Potries (La Safor, Valencia): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Activities

When to go to Potries: festival calendar

February: Porrat de Sant Blai (February)
August: Patron Saint Festivities of Potries (última semana de agosto)

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What to see and do in Potries

Potries
Village
Potries is a municipality of La Safor, Valencia, right in the heart of the comarca on flat land of Quaternary sedimentation; to the south rise the first foothills of the Vall de Gallinera, the Tossalets, and the Serpis river flanks the municipal area to the west. There is evidence of settlement since the Neolithic, and at Peñascales an Iberian village appeared that continued through to Romanisation, when the population dispersed into agricultural settlements such as the Roman villa of Campina-Catorzena. In 1240 Potries was a small alquería of Rebollet castle, granted by Jaume I to the Carroz family, the first lords of the place. Its main festivities honour the Cristo de la Agonía, the Divina Pastora and the Virgins of Carmen and Pilar; the 18th-century Porrat de Sant Blai combines a festival with a small market.
Porrat de Sant Blai
Activity
The main festival of Potries (La Safor, Valencia), combining a traditional market, a fair and religious events in honour of Saint Blaise every February, and forming part of the Ruta dels Porrats de la Safor alongside those of Oliva, Benirredrà, la Font d'en Carròs, Ròtova, Tavernes de la Valldigna and l'Alqueria de la Comtessa. Devotion to Saint Blaise was already widespread in Valencian lands from the conquest of James I; in Potries, a former Muslim settlement dependent on the castle of Rebollet, the origins of the devotion are unclear, though it has been attributed to Gilabert de Centelles, heir to the barony of Rebollet and Oliva at the end of the 14th century, or to an evangelising drive following the Germanías, in the second half of the 16th century.
Patron Saint Festivities of Potries
Activity
Main festival in honour of the Cristo de la Agonía, the Divina Pastora and the Virgins of Carmen and Pilar, with despertades, mascletades, processions and folk dancing.