Canet d´En Berenguer

Description

The place name Canet comes from Latin Cannetum cañar meaning.`s marsh, swamp that stretched from Puteoli to Almenara with plenty of reeds The October 3, 1237 Jaime I in the Repartiment llibre gives a tract of land to the monastery of Benifassa . The first owners of the territory during feudalism were Pere Ruby, and Joan Arnau Francesc Berenguer. According to historian G. Escolano, with Mr. D. Valterra Blanes Berenguer in the sixteenth century, the place was walled and contained 45 houses old Christians, accommodating a company of knights guarding the coast. since the thirteenth century has had a always stable population dedicated to agriculture and organized in a feudal lordship until the nineteenth century. Francisco Berenguer, saguntino notary in 1420 linked the population to their offspring, making it a lordship ruled by important Valencian noble families such as Vallterra and later Saavedra, until in the 1830s disappeared in Spain feudalism. During the contemporary era has seen Canet change both its economy and its appearance. Dedicated to export agriculture, vineyards and first in the twentieth century citrus becomes late in the same century a mainly tourist population. The artistic and architectural heritage of our population is made ​​up of the San Pedro parish church built in the eighteenth century, the Palace of the nineteenth Saavedra, the lighthouse built in 1904, 30 meters high and with a range of 25 miles, the main feature is that it is situated 300 meters inland; occupies the site of a former watchtower stood in the sixteenth century, whose mission was to warn of the presence of pirates boats for coastal populations; and finally, there are the recent opening of our Ethnological Museum, housed in an old farmhouse.