La Pobla del Duc

Population: 2.547 hab. Municipal area: 18,9 km2 Altitude: 243 m. Demonym: poblatà, poblatana Town Hall Phone no.: 96 225 00 66 Web: www.lapobladelduc.es E-mail: infopobla@lapobladelduc.es

LA POBLA DEL DUC

MONUMENTS Historic Center

Historic Center with important architectural and historical resources. Popular and bourgeois houses, located along the historic center, characterized by a civil architecture linked to the rural world.

Parish Church Square Our Lady of the Assumption

The main building is built in the seventeenth century. The current bell tower was finished in 1789, has two bodies and topped, and has a hexagonal plant. It is worth noting the elegance of

the body of the bells with its mating of mid-point shutters, balustrade and Ionic pilasters. It becomes an emblematic urban reference above all, because it stands out in the street where The New Street and the Square of the Church are located and connected urbanally.

Town Hall of La Pobla del Duc

It is a building of 2 floors: on the ground floor we find the function room where the plenary sessions are held, on the first floor are located the municipal offices, mayor and secretarial, and on the upper floor are the local development area and the accounting department.

Devotional ceramic panels

Are ceramic altarpieces dated from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries located in some streets of the town and that are dedicated to San Vicent Ferrer, San Cristobal and Santo Tomás, San Francisco and San Miguel, la Purísima, the Trinity and the Virgin of Solitude.

Convent Park

Built from the demolition of the Old Convent of the Minimums in 1989, which was built in 1603, on the hermitage of San Sebastian and San Fabián. The portal of the old convent placed at the entrance of the urban park is preserved as a decorative element. The park was built in 1989 and includes remains of two tombstones with benches, a high-rang stage, roof and an ordeal (from the third station) surrounding the central space.

Industrial Chimney - Wine Cooperative

A vestige of the 1940s, owned by the Wine Cooperative of La Pobla de Duc, reflected from the agri-food transformation activity, which was used among other things for the alcohol distillation process. The Vitivinícola Cooperative has been the economic lung of the municipality throughout the twentieth century. It was the first association with a cooperativism character of the Vall d’Albaida, founded in the late 1930s. The winery, with a capacity of 55,000 liters, had a production of approximately two million liters of wine, a part of which its distribution in the internal markets. The cooperative is also equipped with a fruit and vegetable section that markets grapes, persimmons, watermelons and other summer fruits.

Municipal washing place

Located in place of Concordia, it was built in 1930 and renovated in 1988, it is in good condition. It shows rectangular plan and covered with two sides of Arabic tile. The central stack is exempt and large in size.

La Poasa: Medieval cistern

For its origin you have to look for it in medieval Muslim times. In the place that is located there was a communal Ferris wheel. It was renovated in 1877 and restored in 1984 by the City Council.

Refuge of the Pla de Micena and refuge of La casa Alta

The airfield of Micena was a work of considerable proportions and budget that employed around a thousand workers. The Royal Road of Gandía or Montaverner Road was raised and flattened for the construction of two tracks, built a command post house known as the Casa del Coronel, and conditioned the Upper House to be used as a home for pilot squadrons and support troops. With regard to the means of passive defense, it highlights the existence of two large shelters located in the Upper House, with capacity for 70 people and south of the countryside, the Micena with capacity for 40 people. These shelters, of similar construction to those preserved in Toro, were intended for protection against airstrikes, with brick and mortar cladding and with two entrance hydrants.

FESTIVITIES

From 3 to 11 January: Novenario and Feast of the Christ of Amparo 3 February: festivity of St. Blas

Three last days of July and the first of

August: feast to the Saints of the Stone, with processions and street dances

Last weekend of August: presentation of the queen of feasts and court of honor, and Moors and Christians festivities. First weekend of September: patron saint festivities in honor of the Divine Aurora and the patrons San Blas and the Christ of Amparo. First weekend of October: trade and gastronomic fair

EXCURSIONS It is part of itinerary no. 3 of the routes through the Vall Blanca

• La Penyeta recreational area • Tarrenet House and Casa Alta • Trail of the Ronda de la Pobla • Carrasques route • Route of military air raid shelters: Pla de Micena and Casa Alta • Jaume I route in the Vall d’Albaida • Literary Route • The Heretats Route

LOCAL PRODUCTS

• Agricultural products: summer fruit, grape, persimmon, pumpkin • Wine • Percussion instruments • Farm machinery

TELEPHONES OF INTEREST

City Council of La Pobla del Duc: 96 225 00 66 Local Police: 649 455 372

Social worker, library and Social Center:

96 292 79 82 Pobla del Duc Health Center: 96 224 96 64 Pobla del Duc Pharmacy: 96 225 03 14 Pobla del Duc Parish: 96 225 00 42 Benigànim-Emergency Health Center: 96 224 92 55 Benigànim Civil Guard: 96 221 50 07 Emergencies and urgencies: 112

LINKS OF INTEREST

Geolocation application of resources and the route of the military anti-aircraft shelters of La Pobla del Duc ‘Route of the shelters of the Civil War’ on the App Store and Google Play.