Godella is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of

Horta Nord Horta Nord (, es, Huerta Norte) is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities * Albalat dels Sorells *Alboraya *Albuixech * Alfara del Patriarca *Almàssera * Bonrepòs i Mirambell *Burjassot * Emperador * ...

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 ...

, Spain. Godella was founded in 1238 by the cession of

James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror ( es, Jaime el Conquistador, ca, Jaume el Conqueridor; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 12 ...

of a region named ''Godayla'' to the Aragonese Pedro Maza. Although part of the municipal area is cultivated (producing diverse foodstuffs such as

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Uni ...

es and

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus '' Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the on ...

s), agriculture is not a principal economic activity of the municipality.

Twin towns

Noisy-le-Roi Noisy-le-Roi () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Population Twin towns * Albion, Michigan, USA * Godella, Spain, since August 2006 See also *Communes of the Yvelines department ...

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, since August 2006

References

External links

Taller d'Història Local de Godella
Municipalities in the Province of Valencia 1238 establishments in Europe Horta Nord 13th-century establishments in Aragon {{Valencia-geo-stub