This confirmed the
occupancy of Cerro del Castillo de San Juan in the Iberian period, certainly
from the fourth century BC, even though the medieval buildings have done away
with all traces of the buildings in the village that have been able to collect
fragments of ceramics and Iberian red-figure Attic glasses and black paint that
could only belong to a culture of that date.
The Vernis battle in
July 1521 gave the victory to Germania, who
occupied Gandia and its surroundings and forced the Muslims to convert to
Christianity. But after the final defeat of Juan de Borja, Germania
went back to Gandia.
John was succeeded by
his eldest son Francis (1543–1551), who was born in 1510 and renounced his
title and property in favor of his son Charles in 1551 and ordered to enter the
Society of Jesus.
On the other hand,
Francisco de Borja, who was canonized in 1671, began work on the fortress and
incorporated the new facility Vila-Nova to protect from the danger of pirates,
corsairs, and Turks in the service of the king of France.
The Upper Palaeolithic
did not exist in the territory that today constitutes the town of Gandia, but during the
final Gravetiense, the Cro-Magnon man sits on the Cave Parpallo; that cave was
inhabited for several thousand years—until nearly the end of the Magdalenian.
The Upper Paleolithic caves of the Barranco del Llop and Spotlight were also
inhabited.
In contrast to the
rich deposits of Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and eneoliticos is the paucity of
remains of the Bronze Age and the lack of representativeness of the Iberian and
Roman eras.
Alfonso IV the Benign
imitated his predecessors in favor of the fortification of the village and gave
the Ceremonious Pedro IV for this purpose in 1387 the city council and the
right armhole. The king later gave Martin the Humane a duchy, Alfonso of
Aragon, son of Pedro Infante.
In 1485 the Duchy of
Gandia went to the house of Borja, the medieval city of feudal character that
after the death of the last Duke of royal blood had returned to the crown,
became a manor in 1494, when the second Duke of Borja established a small but
splendid court.
The lifting of the
Germania was in 1520, which was extended from Madrid to the most important towns of the kingdom,
including Gandia. The uprising succeeded in Valencia and Jativa.
Also within the new
facility, a school was built in 1548—a papal bull that rose to the rank of
university. This university, located in the location now occupied by the Pious
Schools, was famous in the two centuries of its life until its abolition in
1772 by Carlos III, after the expulsion of the Jesuits who ran in 1767 and
passed Baltasar Gracian names like Juan Andres and Antonio Jose de Cavanilles.
Gandia maintained its
status throughout the 16th century, but in 1609, with the expulsion of the
Moors and the ruin of the sugar mills that handled them, Gandia suffered an
economic and demographic disaster that took more than 150 years to recover.
The Romans are well
represented in this territory. In the city of Gandia, people have found coins and
tombstones that could indicate a settlement in time imperial to history or
might be far from the current population and vessels and other Roman remains in
the caves have been found. The latter has abundant fragments of terra sigillata.
The origin of the
current Gandia dates back to the Muslim era and the first documented mention of
Christianity in 1249 and is contained in the Book of Repartiment, by James I of Aragon, who donated the villa to
his infant son Pedro.
During the period of
stagnation, which dragged on until the second half of the 18th century, the dukes
were leaving their homes to settle in Madrid.
During the War of Succession, the Duke of Gandia was the party of Felipe de
Anjou, where the rest of the kingdom was ruled by the Archduke Charles. Hence
the general John Basset AUSTRAC party took the town of Gandia and the artillery of the then
fortified place.
With the triumph of
the Bourbons, everything was restored except the political life since the dukes
were just briefly visiting. The duke died in Madrid in 1740, and the duchy passed everything
on to his nephew, the Count-Duke of Benavente, eight years after the daughter
inherited it and married the Duke of Osuna. Carlos III renewed economic life,
and Gandia started a prosperous era of industrialization.
In the 19th century
silk went through two major crises due to an epidemic that wiped out most of
the silkworm midcentury and another to foreign competition. The railway, a
symbol of the 19th century, came with the expansion of narrow gauge lines, the Alcoy- Gandia
Port, and the link
between Denia and Carcagente.
At the provincial
division in 1822, it was attached to the Province
of Jativa and the division of 1833, to
Alicante, going to Valencia in 1836.
In the 1960s, due to strong growth of the city, the
town of Gandia
annexed to municipalities hitherto independent; Beniopa and Benipeixcar are now
neighborhoods.
