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Casa Consistorial de Alzira(Alzira)

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Alzira was founded by the Arabs with the name of Al-Yazirat Suquar (The Island of Júcar). During the Muslim rule, Alzira was a very important population that came to have its own government. The town, a completely walled bastion, had a few mosques, bathhouses and mills.
The geographical treatise of Al-Zuhví, written around 1147, indicates the existence in Alzira of a great bridge with three arches, an ancient work of excellent workmanship. On December 30, 1242, King Jaime I of Aragon reconquered the city, in a fundamental episode for the conquest of the new Kingdom of Valencia, since Alzira was the only city through which the Júcar River could be crossed, hence its motto “ Claudo regnum et adaperio ”(I open and close the Kingdom).
The main building of the Alzira City Hall was originally the old Palace of the Marquis of Santiago, although this fact, repeated in several texts, is unconfirmed. The building, which dates from the end of the 16th century, was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument on December 17, 1930. It is of Renaissance Gothic architecture as can be seen on the facade, since on the ground floor it presents Renaissance motifs, while on the ground floor Main has Gothic windows. The palace houses an important artistic collection, in which various pictorial works stand out, such as those of Teodoro Andreu. It is located on the central axis of the “vila”, the old part of the city, very close to the church of Santa Catalina, inside the old fortification whose walls bordered the Xuquer river.
This building is a landmark of the city. In it, in addition to civic and representative events, civil weddings and those events that have a greater tradition such as the “crida” of the Fallas and the celebrations of San Bernardo and San Silvestre, in commemoration of the Reconquest take place.

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