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ALFARRASÍ The rope’s angel Alfarrasí is a municipality with about 1,230 inhabitants that offers to the Vall d’Albaida region many unique features. The town is home to one of the most powerful plastic industries in the area, with companies that from many years ago, carry their production everywhere and, indirectly, the name of its town. With a local bullfighter on his list of famous people, Isidoro Martí Flores, Alfarrasí has two music bands and two large musical schools; with a tourist seal called the Four Villages of the River and with the feast of the rope’s angel declared as a Feastl of Provincial Tourist Interest. These are just three reasons why you’re worth visiting Alfarrasí, if you haven’t already.
From 1912 awakening from sadness to the Virgin Mary Every Sunday of Resurrection, since 1912, “L’angelet de la corda” (The rope’s angel) glides through the Plaza Mayor of Alfarrasí to remove the Virgin Mary Dolorosa the black veil that covers her face. Christ is risen and joy has returned to the people. This religious spectacle was imported from the Navarrese town of Tudela by José Ramón Esteve. A neighbor of Alfarrasí who witnessed this performance while doing military service. Thus, from that moment
and only interrupted during the Civil War (from 1936 to 1939), each year a girl is chosen to play the role of angel. “L’angelet de la corda” is one of the most important customs of Alfarrasí and the Vall d’Albaida, since it constitutes an unusual fact in our region.
