Xàtiva

Infobox City Spain
official_name=Xàtiva
native_name=Xàtiva
native_language=Valencian
spanish_name=Játiva


image_skyline_size = 250px
image_skyline_caption = Xátiva from the air

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image_coat_of_arms = Escut de Xàtiva.svg
image_coat_of_arms_size = 80px
city_motto =
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community=Valencian Community
community_link=Valencia (autonomous community)
province=Valencia
province_link=Valencia (province)
comarca=Costera
comarca_link=Costera
time_zone=CET (GMT +1)
time_zone_summer=CEST (GMT +2)
area=76.56
population=28,474
date-population=2006
density=372
date-density=2006
lat_long=coord|38|59|25|N|0|31|16|W|region:ES_type:city
altitude=115

Xàtiva (Spanish: "Játiva" in former days) is a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia, on the right bank of the river Albaida and at the junction of the Valencia–Murcia and Valencia Albacete railways. Xàtiva is built on the margin of a fertile and beautiful plain, and on the southern slopes of the Monte Bernisa, a hill with two peaks, each surmounted by a castle Castle of Játiva. With its numerous fountains, and spacious avenues shaded with elms or cypresses, the town has a clean and attractive appearance. Its collegiate church, dating from 1414, but rebuilt about a century later in the Renaissance style, was formerly a cathedral, and is the chief among many churches and convents. The town-hall and a church on the castle hill are partly constructed of inscribed Roman masonry, and several houses date from the Moorish period. There is a brisk local trade in grain, fruit, wine, olive oil and rice. The leading football club is CD Olimpic Xàtiva

Xativa is also known as an early European center of paper manufacture. In the twelfth century, Arabs brought the technology to manufacture paper to Xativa.

Birthplace of the painter José Ribera "Spagnoletto" and of Pope Alexander VI, it suffered a dark moment in its history at the hands of Philip V of Spain, who, after his victory in the Battle of Almansa in the War of the Spanish Succession, ordered the city to be burned, changing its name to "San Felipe". In memory of the insult, the portrait of the monarch hangs upside down in the local museum of L'Almodí. [ [http://www.ayto-xativa.org/museu/cas/museo_fichas_detalle.asp?id=12 XÀTIVA - Museo de l'Almodí ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.xativa.es Official site]