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Xativa Spain

Xàtiva’s monuments stand in stately testimony to the prominent role the city has played across the ages. An Episcopal seat at the time of the Visigoths, it scaled the heights of cultural splendour under Moorish rule. Then, following the Christian reconquest, it was the second biggest city in the Kingdom of Valencia, and home to great names such as the Borgia family, which gave the world two popes, and the painter Josep (or Jusepe) de Ribera, known as Lo Spagnoletto. It was an Austrian stronghold in the War of the Spanish Succession and was razed under the orders of Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain – an event still branded on the city and on the collective memory of its inhabitants, who have since come to be known as socarrats or “the singed ones”. The ancient core of this special city was officially declared a Site of Historical and Artistic Interest in 1982, and you simply cannot visit without taking a leisurely stroll around the streets of the old quarter and pausing to admire its spectacular collection of monuments born of a turbulent past and present. Crowned from on high by the imposing watchtower of El Castell, Xàtiva is home to such great buildings as the collegiate basilica of Santa María (known as La Seu or La Colegiata), the Hospital Reial, the chapels of Sant Feliu, Sant Josep and Santa Anna, the churches of Sant Pere and Sant Francesc, Plaça de la Trinitat square, the former convent of Sant Domènec, the birthplace of Pope Alexander VI, and various palaces from different periods.

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Recommended airport

Valencia (VLC)

Nearby destinations

Xativa, Spain

Xativa Spain