Alcoy

Alcoy (officially Catalan Alcoi in - Valencian) is a Spanish city, capital of the Comarque of the Alcoià (in the north of the Province of Alicante). The common one counts 60.931 inhabitants. Alcoy is a city with an important industrial tradition, particularly centered on the Textile industry. It is in this city that the first working dispute in Spain occurred. The official dominant language is the Catalan - Valencian.

Geography

The urban core is located in a valley surrounded by the Serra of Mariola, Biscoi , Ombria , the Serreta , the Carrascal of Font Roja, the Carrasqueta and Els Plans . The city is crossed by the Riquer rivers, Benisaidó and Molinar, affluents of the Serpis. For this reason, the city is sometimes called the city with the three rivers or the city with the bridges considering their number.

The vegetation preserved important remainders of the Mediterranean indigenous forest, mainly in Carrascal of Font Roja, with specimens of Chêne S, If S and species with null and void sheets. In the replanted main forests the pine S prevail, which compose 85% of the forests.

The communications were conditioned since always por a broken topography, which obliged great public works. The road N-340 (Barcelona-Cadiz), makes communicate the city with Alicante in the South and Xàtiva - Valence in North, with junctions towards the N-III. The highway network is supplemented by the railway Alcoi-Xàtiva-Valence.

District rural

Baradello-Sargento
Cases del Salt
Estepar
Make Roja
Montesol
Sol I Camp

Communes bordering

Common neighbors: Banyeres, Benifallim, Bocairent, Cocentaina, Ibi, Jijona, Onil, Penàguila and Torremanzanas.

History

Near Sarga exist shelters with cave paintings prehistoric where one finds scenes of hunting, as well as a whole of figurative and diagrammatic reasons which supplement the pictographic sequence post- Paléolithique of the peninsular Mediterranean (thousand-year-old Ve-IIIe before J.C.). Other remainders of the Neolithic time and age of Metals, testify to the prehistoric occupation of the municipal territory.

The settlement during the Iberian time (IVe-IIIe century before J.C.), in the zones of Serreta and el Puig, constitutes a single example of Iberian town planning.

Remainders of the romanisation, although rare, were found in small cores of settlement (now called in Spanish: alquerías), whose toponyms currently persist (Uixola, Benisaidó, Polop, Barxell, etc), which depended - between Xe and XIIIe centuries - fortification on el Castellar .

The birth of the urban core goes back to the year 1256 and results from the desire to colonize and make sure the southernmost border of the Royaume of Valence, after the Christian conquest led by Jacques Ier d' Aragon. The last revolts of the Arab chief Al-Azraq, in 1276, were finally choked. Al-Azraq died whereas it besieged Alcoy. The Christian capacity on current the Province of Alicante was definitively established.

In 1291 the king Jacques II of Aragon made donation of the city to the admiral Roger de Lauria, the city finding the capacity of the kings only in 1430. This year there, following the rising of the lord of Alcoy of then, Federico de Aragón, Count de Luna, the villa passed under the royal capacity, and since 1447 the king Alphonse Magnanime assure him the privilege to have a representation in the Valencian Cortes.

During the War of succession (1705 - 1707) the alcoyanos defended the cause of the Archiduc Charles, following what, the city had to undergo a seat and attacks. It had to accept the abolition of the local privileges; it had to pay fines, etc. all that involved a reduction in its population and her richness. A few years later the king Philippe V granted the suppression of the loads to him and gave privileges to the Real Fábrica de Paños. An important chapter of its history was played during the Cantonal Révolution in 1873. The republican mayor, Agustí Albors, called Shovel , ordered to open fire on the workmen fabriles who concentrated in front of the town hall during a strike. Those, made furious, took by storm the building, killing the mayor and mutilating his corpse. Alcoy was declared independent and was controlled by a Comité of Public Hello between the 9 and on July 13rd, until the arrival of the federal troops. This episode is known under the name of Revolució del Petroli .

During the Spanish Civil war, the city became a fortified town of the Anarcho-syndicalisme, while becoming the seat of the HAS.

Festivals

It should be stressed that its festivals of Moros I cristians (Moors and Christians) are most important and oldest in all the Valencian Communauté.

Sports

Club Deportivo Alcoyano
Patín Alcodiam Salesiano

External bonds

Ayuntamiento de Alcoy
municipal Índice of estadística of Alcoy. Unidad de Documentación of Diputación of Alicante
Alcoy in el Registro de Entidades Local of Generalidad Valenciana
Alcoy Ciudad DIGITAL
El Puig (Alcoy)
Tiendas de Alcoy
Tourist Information Alcoy
Universidad Politécnica of Valencia (Campus of Alcoy)
Web of turismo of Alcoy in Comunidad Valenciana
Federación Valenciana de Municipios there Provincias - Guía Turística.

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