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Xabia

Valencian Community, Spain
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About Xabia

Xabia is a coastal city in the comarca of Marina Alta, inside the province of Alicante, Valencia, Spain, by way of the Mediterranean Sea. Situated on the returned facet of the Montgo, in the back of a wide bay and sheltered between rocky headlands, the city has become a very popular small seaside resort and marketplace town. Half of its resident populace and over two thirds of its annual visitors are foreigners.

The vicinity become first inhabited in prehistoric times, 30,000 years ago with the aid of cave dwellers on Montgo. Subsequent citizens have protected Stone and Bronze-age peoples, Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, Visigoths, Germanic, Carthaginians, and Moors. Roman fishing boats used the port, and there is evidence that dates the Roman occupation of Xabia to the second century BC, it makes Xabia the oldest known Roman website online at the coast with a industrial port for fish and minerals.

In the sixth century AD, Christian Visigoth clergymen got here to Xabia and founded the monastery of Sant Marti, which probable gave its call to the cape inside the area named Cap San Marti. Hermenegild, son of the Visigoth king Leovigild of Toledo, sought shelter inside the Monastery after angering his father by marrying a Christian girl. When his father's troops arrived to arrest him all however one monk fled to Portichol; Hermenegild and the antique monk were killed. Several humans with Visigoth names still stay in the location.

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