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MANISES
Geographical situation
Manises, historical and laborious city
Manises is a municipality of l´Horta, he/she extends to the right margin of the Túria (limit northern of the term) and it is uneven in the sector western for the first mounts that they dominate the alluvial page of the Túria.
The agriculture is predominantly of unirrigated land: locusts, oliveras and small vineyard sectors and almond trees. The irrigable one takes advantage of the water of the one Túria through the canal of Manises.
The economic activity main it is the industry, centered in the ceramic that has an important tradition from the Half Age (Ceramic of Manises), which resurges with force in the second half of the one XIX century. In 1917 it was created the School of Ceramic that it included the study of this activity in their diverse variants: artistic ceramic, porcelain and tiles. The small one prevails company.
The industrial activity the population's strong increment behaved that tripled in the XIX century and he/she has multiplied for 6 in the XX one. In the present time the population is about the 26000 inhabitants.
The city is to the right of the Túria, in the oriental end of the term, on a small hill and in front of Paternal, to the other side of the one river. He/she extends from west to this, following the course of the river, and in the last one he/she gets wider it united Quart of Poblet. The sectors industrial they concentrate to the east and north of the urban nucleus, near the station of the railroad of Valencia to Liria. The parochial church (Saint John the Baptist) it was built among 1734 and 1751; the biggest altar had belonged to the convent of the Grace of Valencia. Antigua Islamic alquería, it was donated in 1238 for Jaime I to Artal of Moon , and in 1307 it was sold Pere Boïl and he/she became center of the barony of Manises. It was mixed place of Christian and Moorish among the years 1602 and 1609 in a promotion of 150 Christian homes and 50 Moorish.
In 1924 he/she received the one city title. Besides diverse time discoveries Roman, inside the term there is an aqueduct contruído in that nominated time dels Arquets . In the end western of the term, in the riverside of the Túria, there is one station potabilizadora of the water of Valencia. The municipality he/she also understands the villages of the Prey and the Cova and the neighborhood of Sant Francesc .
The airport of Manises, to the service of the city of Valencia, it is located the one west of the urban mass, inside the term of Manises, to about 8 kilometers of downtown. It shares the commercial activity with the facilities of the military base air of Manises, at the present time dismantled. He/she has all the modern facilities of safe-conducts and a radar located in Pinedo, near the Lagoon. At the moment it is endowed with those last advances in their facilities of travelers' welcome and of movement of goods.
Our history in a couple of words
Although probably Manises is inhabited from the times but remote, him only that know it is that the Romans built an important one it works to take water to Valencia. Then the Arab came, being these the creators of our city and the natives of our traditions. The 500 years that aproximádamente occupies this period, they were enough so that Manises, their helmet urban, their term, their agriculture, and their ceramic industry, they had such an important level, as so that Jaime I, him him it granted like prize to one of their best men, gift Artal of Moon, one of the Rich - nature homs that him they accompanied.
And it is this donation, registered in the Llibre of the Repartiment, the first appointment that officially it is known of Manises 1237. Artallus of Moon. Alquerian of Paternal et of Manizes, VII idus Julil" (7 of Julio 1237).
One of the main ones reason of the importance of Manises it is their industry of the ceramic: their forms, reasons, colors and cooking ways, are of Arab orígen, and until very entrance the drop Half Age, not it passed at the hands of Christian that enriched it with their work and experience.
Entered the XV century, it was a city of a hundred of homes, but their fame had transcended, not only to the limits of Valencia, but to the rest of the peninsular Kingdom, and even to Europe. The reason is the technique of the Gilded Ceramic that one was considered he/she marvels.
These reflection works metallic they suppose the creation of a production that reaches those higher quotas of quality achieved by the Spanish ceramic.
Two main reasons they are the cause of the ceramic decadence of Manises, the trade he/she moves from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic with America. And the one reign of the Austrias, dynasty with likes very different to the one Hispanic art - Moorish. They take the relief Talavera and Seville that they incorporate to their ceramic the policromía and the Renaissance fashion.
At the beginning of the century XVI, the tiles of Manises were very successful commercial, mainly those of heraldic type. In the XVII century all the azulejería valenciana had an important peak.
The ceramic that was of I use popular, it will be substituted by the porcelain and it will suffer a blow so hard that he/she won't recover until the XX century.
The principle of the Century XX he/she brings I get a completely new style, the modernism that it contributed to the ceramic the consideration of ornamental element of first order. Until that moment the tile was used for to floor or in baseboard, now it will be used in facades beautifying them with their rich policromía. This won battle for the ceramic, it lasts until our days, and the so much use industrial as artistic he/she has a great development.
Lastly there is that to highlight two fundamental facts in resurging of our ceramic, first the creation in 1914 of the School of the Ceramic of Manises, been founded by Vicente Vilar David, and in second place the inauguration in 1969 of the Municipal Museum of the Ceramic, rehabilitated and enlarged in 1989, through the one which you they manifest the past and the present of the industry and the art manisero.
Telephones of Interest
City council............. .96-154.51.16
Museum of Ceramic.......... .96-152.10.44
Airport............. ..96-370.95.00
Connections of Interest
Parish Immaculate Heart of María
Junior MD Creu in Sun of Manises
http: / / www. gva. it is / manises
