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What to see and do in Olleria l'

What to see and do in Olleria l' (La Vall d'Albaida, Valencia): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Olleria l'

L'Olleria
Village
L'Olleria is a municipality of the Vall d'Albaida, in Valencia, south of the Serra Grossa, a natural border with the Costera; it borders Albaida, Canals, Montaverner and Xàtiva. It owes its name to the old Alqueria de les Olles, al-Fukhkhâr in Arabic, mentioned in the Llibre del Repartiment of 1250; its coat of arms shows, above the royal bars, an olive tree with two clay pots. Inhabited since remote times, it has remains from the Middle Palaeolithic at the Cova de Sant Nicolau and from the Bronze Age at the Castellet del Porquet, and it was also an important Roman settlement. It became independent of Xàtiva in two stages: as a universitat in 1583 and as a royal town in 1588; in 1522, during the revolt of the Germanías, royal troops burned its church of Santa María Magdalena, then a refuge for hundreds of people.
L'Olleria, royal town in 1588
Historical milestone
The former Alqueria de les Olles emancipated itself from Xàtiva in two stages: it obtained the status of universidad in 1583 and the privilege of royal villa in 1588, with a council and justicia of its own. From then on it administered its municipal district autonomously.
The church burned during the Germanías
Monument
During the revolt of the Germanías, in 1522, hundreds of people took refuge in the church of Santa María Magdalena of L'Olleria, which was set on fire by the royal troops. The episode became fixed in the collective memory of the villa.