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Villajoyosa

The Villajoyosa municipality had your first founding in the Bronze Age, and the hill assented the ancient helmet went an Iberian town ancients. In the Roman time, the area experimented a great apogee, being the Roman city of plucked wing.In the age it intercedes, the place depopulated with which it is islamized rapidly forming settled as those of Torres -Torres mentioned in the Crònica of Ramón Muntaner. Your foundation as Villajoyosa( really the Joiosa vilo that is important cheerful villa ) produces to him in the year 1300 by Bernat of Sarriá, the Jaime II admiral of Aragon, with a strategic end to control the littoral of the maritime attacks |musulmanes|. In 1321, the place went in the Pedro male infant, duke of Ribagorza; different nobiliary families were happened in the possession of the city, that in 1443 obtained the much desired privilege to become real villa.During the XVI century, Villajoyosa had an important paper in the defense of the Alicante coast in front of the numerous and considerable piratical attacks berbers. For this reason, the Felipe II king arranged project and it carries out some new walls, finished halfway trough century, that, hiding the previous, it is those who they finds nowadays standing. As part of the same defensive system erected roast lightly coastal and numerous lookout post vegetable garden towers, affixed to rural |masías|. The works of the church-strength of the assumption, of Gothic style inhabitant of the Levant, it is executed for thesing same dates. The end of the corsair attacks, to ends of the XVII century, permitted a defensive relaxation and an urban growth outside of the walls.In 1911 , Alfonso XIII conceded you Villajoyosa the title of city.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villajoyosa

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