Alfarrasí

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.

Two bands and friends

With about 1,230 inhabitants, Alfarrasí boasts of having two bands of music and, more importantly, the good relationship that exists between them. A peculiarity that occurs in very few municipalities that have more than one band of music and that makes the alfarrasineros (the name given to the inhabitants of this municipality) proud. The Musical Group of Alfarrasí, known as the Banda, and the Instructive Banda of Alfarrasí, are the two musical entities of the town that also have two very high schools of music.

Tourist brand: one of the Four Villages of the River

Alfarrasí is part of the newly created brand of the Four Villages of the River. A tourist seal that unites this municipality with Benissuera, Sempere and Guadasséquies, the four towns located near the Albaida

River and which share in addition to the territory, customs and lifestyle. The tourist brand of the Four Villages of the River makes Alfarrasí a family tourist reference point, a space where you can enjoy a weekend day at the same time you know the municipality. A tourist seal that identifies the four villages and also highlights areas of great environmental value in which you will enjoy the outdoor leisure, as is the case of the place of the Hermitage of Alfarrasí. A very important reason, but not the only one, to visit the municipality if you have not already done so.