Qualla: Llíria https://qualla.com/lliria en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/9/lliria-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llíria https://qualla.com/lliria Llíria: Introduction https://qualla.com/lliria/ Photo credit StellarD, CC BY-SA 4.0. In Llíria, the question is not whether you play an instrument but which band you play for. In a town of roughly 25,000 people, several thousand are musicians, and for more than a hundred years they have divided their loyalties between two great wind orchestras that regard each other as friendly enemies. Music runs so deep here that in 2019 UNESCO named Llíria a Creative City of Music, one of a select handful worldwide. Yet the brass and woodwind are only the latest voices to rise from this hill northwest of Valencia. Beneath the modern streets lies one of the most important cities of ancient Iberia, and the town has been making itself heard for well over two thousand years.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/9/lliria-wp/ezp9-ll-ria-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llíria: Two Bands, One Town https://qualla.com/lliria/ Photo credit Casseto, CC BY-SA 4.0. The rivalry began, as rivalries often do, with a split. In 1819 a Franciscan friar named Antoni Albarracín Enguídanos founded the town's first band, the Banda Primitiva. Decades of shared music-making followed until 1903, when a faction broke away to form the Unió Musical, and Ll...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/9/lliria-wp/ezp9-ll-ria-two-bands-one-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Llíria: The City on the Hill https://qualla.com/lliria/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Long before the bands, this was Edeta, capital of a broad Iberian territory called Edetania that stretched between two rivers. The old city stood on the hilltop of Sant Miquel, looking down over the plain where the modern town now sits. Its life on the heights ended violently. In...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/9/lliria-wp/ezp9-ll-ria-the-city-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Llíria: Hercules Underfoot https://qualla.com/lliria/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0. Under Rome, Llíria grew rich enough to rival Valencia and nearby Sagunt. The ground still gives up the evidence. Archaeologists have uncovered a grand Roman leisure complex here - a temple, shops, pools, and hot baths - along with one of the largest coin hoards ever found in Spai...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/9/lliria-wp/ezp9-ll-ria-hercules-underfoot.mp3 0:06 4 full Llíria: The Church of the Blood https://qualla.com/lliria/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. The town's medieval chapter opened in 1238, when James I of Aragon took the Valencian region and had Llíria's first church built. Raised on the site of a mosque, the Church of the Blood - the església de la Sang - is a clean example of Valencian Gothic, and fragments of the mosqu...

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