TUÉJAR, AN HISTORICAL VILLAGE.
At the geographic heart of the district of Los Serranos, among valleys and mountains, next to the birth of the river that gives it the name, we can find Tuéjar.
Tuéjar is a more ancient village than Valencia city, a mixture of different cultures, as demonstrate 8000 years old paleolithic paintings, the bronze age's deposits, Iberian settlements and Roman constructions.
In the centre of the ancient urban area, there are remains of arabic architecture.The fact exists that they formed splits of the enclosure marked off by definite walled limits.
In XIV century, Tuéjar was reconquered by Christians, once its strategic importance was given. Tuéjar bordered the kingdom of James I , Aragon, with Castilla, the other great kingdom in Spain towards the end of the Middle Ages.
The fact of its position next to this roadway has made Tuéjar a scene of numerous historic events.
Its inhabitants have lived on agriculture and cattle raising for centuries.
After the Spanish civil war, in 1940, Tuéjar had almost 4,000 inhabitants, but during the years Tuéjar suffered the mass emigration of generations plus young people, toward Valencia and other Spanish cities, even toward other European countries like Switzerland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in search of a better future for them and their families.
The Spanish entrance in the EU, in the mid 80s, has supposed for Tuéjar and all the district of “Los Serranos”, one point of inflexion so that he seemed a slow and inexorable agony.
European collaboration has been nail piece ever since for the dinamization and modernization of our land.
At the geographic heart of the district of Los Serranos, among valleys and mountains, next to the birth of the river that gives it the name, we can find Tuéjar.
Tuéjar is a more ancient village than Valencia city, a mixture of different cultures, as demonstrate 8000 years old paleolithic paintings, the bronze age's deposits, Iberian settlements and Roman constructions.
In the centre of the ancient urban area, there are remains of arabic architecture.The fact exists that they formed splits of the enclosure marked off by definite walled limits.
In XIV century, Tuéjar was reconquered by Christians, once its strategic importance was given. Tuéjar bordered the kingdom of James I , Aragon, with Castilla, the other great kingdom in Spain towards the end of the Middle Ages.
The fact of its position next to this roadway has made Tuéjar a scene of numerous historic events.
Its inhabitants have lived on agriculture and cattle raising for centuries.
After the Spanish civil war, in 1940, Tuéjar had almost 4,000 inhabitants, but during the years Tuéjar suffered the mass emigration of generations plus young people, toward Valencia and other Spanish cities, even toward other European countries like Switzerland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in search of a better future for them and their families.
The Spanish entrance in the EU, in the mid 80s, has supposed for Tuéjar and all the district of “Los Serranos”, one point of inflexion so that he seemed a slow and inexorable agony.
European collaboration has been nail piece ever since for the dinamization and modernization of our land.
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