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Holy Corporals Batman!

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  A quick, not quiet going back on ourselves and turn east towards Llutxent.   For those keen on this sort of thing - we are 300m above sea level. Wiki goes all geological with us and jumps straight in with ‘ The relief is formed by a basin of Eocene and Miocene materials, in the form of an arc open towards the southwest. To the north and east, there are a series of Iberian mountain folds, oriented from northwest to southeast, in which Cretaceous limestone materials predominate.’   We are with the usual story of Aragonese Conquest, with the move of 24 loyalists from his army.  Resistance continued and was occasionally successful.  The steady rise of populace from the 1163 of 1860, continued unbroken to 2508 in 2011, since when it has declined to 2335.   We are in a place that has a fiesta dedicated to the Holy Corporals.  It falls on 24th February and is organized by the "Germandat del Sagrats Corporals". It commemorates events in 1239. Durin...