Valencian Parliament Day

This institution is the representation of the Valencian people, they are the deputies who have been freely and democratically elected by the Valencian people to represent them, to legislate, to provide solutions to the problems of society.

One more year we celebrate the 25th of April, institutionalized as the Day of the Corts Valencianes in memory of that day of 1707 and the consequences that were derived. The Battle of Almansa took place during the international conflict of the War of Spanish Succession on April 25, 1707 in Almansa (today's province of Albacete, on the borders between Valencia, Alicante and Murcia, in Spain).

The town of Almansa was made up of 800 neighbors, some 3,600 inhabitants, who suffered directly the most terrible consequences of the battle: plundered farms, stolen livestock, houses and mills attacked, and above all the expenses involved in maintaining the troops to whom they had to provide food, lodging and hospitals. The indebtedness of the population lasted several years. The memory of the battle of Almansa for the families of the time is summarized in a sad day of deaths followed by years of famine. As a reward, on August 12, 1707, the town of Almansa was granted a fifteen-day tax-free fair, which would begin on St. Mark's Day, April 25. Felipe V granted the town the title of Very Noble, Very Loyal and Most Faithful.