Qualla: Cocentaina https://qualla.com/cocentaina en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cocentaina https://qualla.com/cocentaina Cocentaina: Introduction https://qualla.com/cocentaina/ The name came before the town, before Spain, before almost anything you could put a date to. Cocentaina takes its name from the Contestani, the Iberian tribe that lived across this corner of the peninsula long before Rome or Islam arrived. People have occupied these hillsides since Paleolithic times, a fact written on the rock in nearby cave paintings. Modern Cocentaina, a town of some 11,500 at the foot of the Serra Mariola, wears all of that lightly, going about its business of cloth and commerce beneath a castle and a millennia-deep past.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/s/cocentaina-wk/eyzs-cocentaina-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cocentaina: A Name Older Than Spain https://qualla.com/cocentaina/ To say a name has survived from the Iberians is to reach back past every empire that shaped this coast. The Contestani were here when the whole region answered to no state at all, and their name has clung to this spot through Roman, Visigothic, Muslim, and Christian rule alike. T...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/s/cocentaina-wk/eyzs-cocentaina-a-name-older-than-spain.mp3 0:06 2 full Cocentaina: Qustantaniya https://qualla.com/cocentaina/ Under Moorish rule the settlement was called Qustantaniya, and it mattered. This was an important enclave in Al-Andalus, and the imprint of those centuries is still legible in the streets. The foundations of the castle, the tangled layout of the old quarter, and the scattering of...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/s/cocentaina-wk/eyzs-cocentaina-qustantaniya.mp3 0:06 3 full Cocentaina: Two Festivals, One Town https://qualla.com/cocentaina/ Cocentaina's calendar turns on two great celebrations, both born in the Middle Ages and both declared Festivals of National Tourist Interest. One is the Moors and Christians, whose thundering Alardo of gunpowder and pageantry reenacts the region's founding conflicts. The other is...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/s/cocentaina-wk/eyzs-cocentaina-two-festivals-one-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Cocentaina: The Palace and the Gilded Room https://qualla.com/cocentaina/ The town's grandest interior belongs to the Palau Comtal, the Palace of the Counts, whose crowning glory is the Sala Daurada, the Gilded Room, its ceiling worked into intricate, golden splendor. It is the kind of space that reminds you Cocentaina was once the seat of a noble hous...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/s/cocentaina-wk/eyzs-cocentaina-the-palace-and-the-gilded-room.mp3 0:06 5 full Cocentaina: Cloth and Café Licor https://qualla.com/cocentaina/ For all its history, Cocentaina is first and foremost a working town, and its trade is textiles, an industry that has clothed the region for generations. That industrial past also flavors its most local drink. Like neighboring Alcoy, Cocentaina is known for café licor, a coffee l...

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