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Yacimiento de la Falquía(Beneixida)

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The main archaeological remains of Benegida are those found in 1958 in the Olivar de Poveda (La Falquía), consisting of subway galleries from the late Roman period, in which two skylights, a ceramic vessel, nine beads of vitreous paste, a bronze fibula and a few other remains were found.

The origin of the ancient nucleus of Benegida is in a farmhouse called banī Jidda. Jaime I donated it to the Despuig family, passing later, as Alcántara de Júcar, into the hands of the Count of Albalat. There was a mosque in operation until 1526, when it became a Catholic temple due to the influence of the Germanías. Shortly before the expulsion of the Moors (1609) 67 families lived in this place.

In 1646 only 32 houses had been repopulated, and in the following years the plagues and endemic fevers left some of them empty, so that in 1713 there were only 26 inhabited and in 1787 there were only 131 people. According to the botanist Cavanilles, in 1795 it produced wheat, rice, wine, oil, carobs, silk, corn and vegetables. At the end of the 1830s, after the abolition of the manors, it became an independent municipality. In Madoz's Dictionary (1845-1850) the following description appears:

The population quadrupled in the course of the 19th century, totaling 476 inhabitants in 1900. The "Tous swamp", which took place in 1982, affected the population so severely that it was decided, by plenary agreement of May 27, 1983, to move it to a higher place in the municipality, at 60 meters above sea level, near the Venta de Carbonell. The new town is formed by a series of straight streets that draw an orthogonal plan, designed by the architect Antonio Osorio, with houses painted white and cubic shapes, minimalist, contrasting with the surrounding gardens and palm trees.

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