Cheste ( Valencian: Xest) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of

Hoya de Buñol Hoya de Buñol (Valencian: ''Foia de Bunyol'') is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities * Alborache * Buñol *Cheste * Chiva * Dos Aguas *Godelleta Godelleta is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of ...

in the Valencian Community, Spain, located 26 km from the capital Valencia.

History

According to the Valencian historian Escolano, the first settlers of the region of Cheste were members of Iberian tribes belonging to the old ''

Edetania The Edetani were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken a form of the Iberian language. See also *Iberians * Edeta *Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula *Punta ...

''. This view is supported by numerous remains, particularly those of ''El Castillarejo'' (Iberian ceramics and spear points from the Bronze Age). The

Cheste hoard The Cheste hoard () is an Iberian hoard discovered near the town of Cheste, Valencia, Spain, in 1864. Dating to about 200 BCE, the hoard was found buried in two pots and contained gold jewellery, silver coins and silver ingots. It is currently h ...

, a cache of gold jewellery and silver coins, was discovered in the locality of La Safa in 1864. The presence of

Carthaginian The term Carthaginian ( la, Carthaginiensis ) usually refers to a citizen of Ancient Carthage. It can also refer to: * Carthaginian (ship), a three-masted schooner built in 1921 * Insurgent privateers; nineteenth-century South American privateers, ...

coinage issued by the Barcids alongside an early Roman '' denarius'' implies the hoard dates to around the time of the

Second Punic War The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Ital ...

Sport

About five kilometers to the east of the town is the " Circuit de Valencia", a

motor sport ''Motor Sport'' is a monthly motor racing magazine, founded in the United Kingdom in 1924 as the ''Brooklands Gazette''. The name was changed to ''Motor Sport'' for the August 1925 issue. The magazine covers motor sport in general, although from ...

race track which hosts the Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix since 1999.

Bordering localities

Chiva,

Gestalgar Gestalgar is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality of the Comarques of the Valencian Community, ''comarca'' of Los Serranos in the Valencia (autonomous community), Valencian Community, Spain. The name in Valencian language, Valencian is ''Xesta ...

Bugarra Bugarra is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Los Serranos in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most popul ...

, Pedralba, Vilamarxant, Riba-roja de Túria, and

Loriguilla Loriguilla is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Camp de Túria in the Valencian Community, Spain. See also *Sierra de Utiel Sierra de Utiel ( ca-valencia, Serra d'Utiel) is a long mountain range in the Alt Palància, Alt Millars and Plana ...

References

External links

Official site

Photographs

Cheste on Google Maps

Cheste from the Valencian Agency of Tourism
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