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Antigua Estación Ferroviaria(Gandia)

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We advance along the Ronda de Venecia protected by the wall that separates us from the port warehouses until we reach Levante street, where we turn right to reach an old railway station and some disused rails that remind us of the important role that this means of transport played for the economic development of the city. The Alcoy - Gandía line was an axis of prosperity that linked both Valencian cities and brought them into the 20th century.

The need of providing coal and raw materials (dyes, cotton, etc.) to the textile industry of Alcoi and of opeThe need to supply the Alcoy textile industry with coal and raw materials (dyes, cotton, etc.) and to open a port connection to the outside world, due to the orography of the city of Alcoy, led to the creation of the Alcoy - Gandía railway line, an efficient means of transport for importing raw materials and exporting the products of the Alcoy textile industry. The last journey of the so-called "xixarra" train took place on 15 April 1969.

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