Algemesí, Spain

Spain

Algemesí, Spain shares 9 connections with 1009 places across 7 topics, centered on festival traditions and intangible cultural heritage. The La Mare de Déu de la Salut festival, held each September since 1247, was declared a UNESCO intangible heritage of humanity in 2011. The town's Muixeranga, a form of human tower performance, influenced the Catalan castell tradition documented in Valls as early as 1712. Algemesí also connects through Juan Bautista Cabanilles, a baroque organist born here in 1644 who later served at Valencia Cathedral. Most shared ties are with Valencia, Spain, and Barcelona.