Tavernes de la Valldigna (, es, Tavernes de la Valldigna) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

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, Spain, located in the district of

Safor Safor () is a ''comarca'' within the province of Valencia, Spain. The capital is the city of Gandia, but also includes the towns of Oliva, Piles and Daimús, among others. The beach area of Gandia, La Platja, is well known for its wild nightlif ...

, 54 km far away from

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

. It is the biggest town in La Valldigna, a horseshoe shape valley bordered by mountains (Iberian and Betic mountains) on the west and the

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to the east. Tavernes gained a City title in December 1916, by King

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African, was King of Spain from 17 May 1886 to 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He was a monarch from birth as his father, Alf ...

. The mayor is Jordi Juan Huguet (2011-). According to the Spanish Statistic National Institute, INE, in 2010 there were 18.130 inhabitants in Tavernes: 9.126 men and 9.004 women.Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero de 2013
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Geography

Located in the north-east of

la Safor Safor () is a ''comarca'' within the province of Valencia, Spain. The capital is the city of Gandia, but also includes the towns of Oliva, Piles and Daimús, among others. The beach area of Gandia, La Platja, is well known for its wild nightli ...

county, it is 56 km far from

, at the east part of the

Valldigna Safor () is a ''comarca'' within the province of Valencia, Spain. The capital is the city of Gandia, but also includes the towns of Oliva, Piles and Daimús, among others. The beach area of Gandia, La Platja, is well known for its wild nightlif ...

valley. On the north the Massalari valley and the Agulles mountains, with two peaks called Les Creus (540 m) and Massalari peak (598 m), the Mondúver peak is located to the south. The valley has a river called Vaca. The city is located 15 metres above sea level, and has excellent beaches and touristic mountain routes. The nearest cities are:

Cullera Cullera () is a city and municipality of Spain located in the Valencian Community. It is part of the province of Valencia and the Ribera Baixa ''comarca''. The city is situated near the discharge of the river Júcar in the Mediterranean Sea. Ge ...

, Favara,

Benifairó de la Valldigna Benifairó de la Valldigna () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Safor in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fou ...

and

Xeraco Xeraco (; es, Jaraco ) formerly also named as "Jaraco" (in Castillian language) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Safor in Valencia, Spain. Like many coastal towns it is divided into the original village of Xeraco and the new beach resort, ...

in the

province of Valencia Valencia ( ca-valencia, València) is a province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community. Of the province's over 2.5 million people (2018), one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the au ...

Monuments

Torre de Guaita Tavernes de la Valldigna

The ''Valley Tower'', also known as ''Torre de guaita'' or ''Torre de la Vall'' is close to the main entrance to the beach part of town, built in the 16th century. Its surroundings are now used as a leisure area and it was part of the Mediterranean

watchtower A watchtower or watch tower is a type of fortification used in many parts of the world. It differs from a regular tower in that its primary use is military and from a turret in that it is usually a freestanding structure. Its main purpose is to ...

s net and it is considered a ''Bien de Interés Cultural'', a category of the Spanish heritage register, with the number R-I-51-0010817. The parish church of

Saint Peter ) (Simeon, Simon) , birth_date = , birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire , death_date = Between AD 64–68 , death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire , parents = John (or Jonah; Jona) , occupat ...

is located at the center of the city, close to the Town Hall. We can stand out the façades and the restored sundial. There are ruins of an old Moorish castle overlooking the Valldigna valley in an area known as "Els Castellets", located on the route towards the mountain of the crosses (Tres Creus).

Notable people

* César Ferrando, football player and manager * Ximo Enguix, former footballer

References

External links

Tavernes de la Valldigna Official Site
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