Xàtiva
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Xàtiva (formerly written
Játiva), or
San Felipe de Játiva, a town of eastern
Spain, in the province of
Valencia, on the right bank of the river Albaida and at the junction of the Valencia-Murcia and Valencia-Albacete railways. Pop. (
1900), 12,600. Xàtiva is built on the margin of a fertile and beautiful plain, and on the southern slopes of the Monte Bernisa, a hill with two peaks, each surmounted by a castle. With its numerous fountains, and spacious avenues shaded with elms or cypresses, the town has a clean and attractive appearance. Its collegiate church, dating from
1414, but rebuilt about a century later in the Renaissance style, was formerly a cathedral, and is the chief among many churches and convents. The town-hall and a church on the castle hill are partly constructed of inscribed Roman masonry, and several houses date from the
Moorish period. There is a brisk local trade in grain, fruit, wine, olive oil and rice.
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