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LLUTXENT

Population: 2.373 hab. Municipal area: 42,1 km2 Altitude: 280 m. Demonym: llutxentĂ­, llutxentina Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 40 01 Web: www.llutxent.com E-mail: informacio@llutxent.org

MONUMENTS The Proxita’s palace-castle It is located at the highest part of the village. It was built by the Proxites between the XIII-XIV centuries. Valencian Gothic style, it has a square plan with four towers loathed around a courtyard. Inside stand out the paintings of the noble plant. Church of Our Lady of Assumption Built in the late nineteenth century. Neoclassical style, it preserves important

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treasures such as the icon of the Holy Face, a processional cross and an arch of the fifteenth century, among others. Calvary of the sixteenth century Old way to get up from the village to the convent. With a great slope it was cobbled towards the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is currently flanked by the calvary stations.


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