Cocentaina, capital of The Comtat, in the county of Alicante, is in the part of the Sierra of Mariola, traditional place of trips for the its beauty and botanical wealth.
This very communicated with Valencia by the highway N-340, and for railroad with the line Alcoy-Valencia-Alcoy. He/she has a population of about 11.000 inhabitants, almost enjoying parties and celebrations the whole year.
The parties that begin with the Festa of the Nanos, continue in April with the celebration of the Virgin of the Miracle, and by the middle of August with the traditional parties of Moorish and Christian in honor of San Hipolito, declared of National Tourist interest, highlighting también la importance of the tots "Fira Sants", taken place from 1346 that it attracts numerous visitors the first days of November.
At the moment it presents in their plane well differentiated areas, the oldest, the Raval, old Muslim neighborhood, the Vila that before among walls, the Christian population harbored. We also find more modern areas as the area of the passeig.

 

Traditional Market, every Thursday of the year. Place: Square of the Plá and Venerable Square Escuder. Occasionally in the Av. of the Railroad. It has a great public attendance from very early. It is habit, after the purchase, to have breakfast in some of the numerous bars and terraces.
Festa dels Nanos. On third Wednesday of Lent. Place: the streets of the Raval. Ancestral tradition contestana, in the one that "Els Nanos", grotesque figures of natural size, come out to the street among music of "Tabalets i Xirimites" to criticize to the administration or some neighbor.

 

Employer parties to the Mare of Deu of the Milacre. April 19. Place: Square of the Plá, Sanctuary of the "Mare of Deu", Church of Santa María and neighborhood of the Vila. It commemorates the Virgin's miracle that took place April of 1.520, 19 when in the celebration of the Sacrament, the chart with its face cried 27 tears of blood. They are carried out numerous acts devocionales.
Week Santa Contestana. Place: Raval, Passeig of the Comtat, Square of the Plá.... Traditional celebration with processions where the gears characteristic of each brotherhood and different steps can be admired. The Week Santa Contestana has every year more participation.


Moorish and Christian in honor to S. Hipólito, pattern of Cocentaina from 1.600. They take place the second weekend of August. The party lapses mainly for the Passeig of the Comtat, Square of the Plá and Square of the Vila. Declared of national tourist interest, they are of a great one I root and quality in suits, music, shows.... Acts differed as the l'olla "nit, the maseros embassy and smugglers, the day of the entrances, embassy of the tomatoes and alardo.
The Fira of tots els Sants takes place the last days of October and first of November Acts differed as the l'olla "nit, the maseros embassy and smugglers, the day of the entrances, embassy of the tomatoes and alardo. He/she is carried out from 1.346, for real privilege of Pedro IV of Aragon. It attracts numerous visitors. They are exposed and they sell products of the most diverse natures, through more than 700 positions. They highlight the medieval market, Islamic zoco, Trades Horsy, Agricultural Machinery and Automoción. Parallelly, they are carried out a great quantity of exhibitions and cultural acts.
 

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