Houses and Streets

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Main square (Palillo Square)

First name

“Palillo” refers to the pallet that was put into the ground vertically with some coins on it and indicated by a circle and it had to be knocked over. The coins left outside the circle were for the shooter.

Parties

Being the town’s main square, it served as the stage for many events and parties until 1971, when the mayor Rubén Compañ Salt decided that they should be held at the sports complex.

The square was the place where recreation of a “miracle” of Sant Vicent Ferrer, noted at the end of the 19th century, was performed annually. On the day of his feast, a procession took place in which a neighbor dressed as the saint, who was carried in a drawer that imitated the pulpit. When he arrived at the square, another neighbor informed him of the lack of water, that the fields needed it and that he would perform a miracle by sending rain. At that moment, several neighbors who were hiding on top of the roofs, threw water with sprinklers on the people.

There was also another festival, that of the Light. On August 25, 1929, the Electric Cooperative was created in Algímia, taking the electric fluid from a hydroelectric plant in the departure of the Molins de Torres Torres (a nearby place), which used the water from the ditch to provide service to the towns of the Baronia. It was the mill of Light. One of the “lighters”, that is to say, the electricians who made it possible was Antonio Marzo , who settled in Algimia from Sot (a neighbor town) .To commemorate that day, a lunch was organized in this square until the 1950s. But the day of the inauguration was spectacular. Journalist Maximino Sabater tells us in “El Pueblo ” on the 28th: