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CASTELLÓ DE RUGAT Population: 2.275 hab. Municipal area: 19,1 km2 Altitude: 320 m. Demonym: castellonenc, castellonenca Town Hall Phone no.: 96 288 30 10 Web: www.castelloderugat.es E-mail: cultura@castelloderugat.es info@turismecastelloderugat.com
MONUMENTS Historical centre and Town Hall Castelló de Rugat was a populous Muslim farmhouse, located on the slope of a hill presided over by a castle. It had an important mosque, with school and judicial court, which occupied the site of the current church. Castilian Muslims stood out for producing oil and wheat in the dryland, although the local specialty was the production and export of clay jugs. With the feudal conquest, Jaume I preserved the
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area of Castellón populated with Arabs. In 1257 Al-Azraq seized the castle of Rugat and then offered to make a deal with the king, but in reality it was an ambush. Jaume I launched an offensive against the Moor traitor, and gave land and houses to brothers Romeu and Joan Martí, custodians of the castle during the war in 1258.
