TownS Valencian Community                                                  CASTELLON

The municipal term of Villanueva of Alcolea borders on the localities of Saw Engarcerán, Caves of Vinromá, Alcala of Chivert, Benlloch and Tower Endoménech, all of them of the province of Castellón.

Placed in a hillock in the interior broker of the province and in an environment of soft undulations surrounded with fields of almond trees, olive groves and vineyards.
His climate is Mediterranean.
One gains access to this locality, from Castellon of the Plana, taking the CV 10 and then the CV 145. In the same locality the Airport of Castellón is in construction phase.

The first traces of human occupation go back to Iberian establishments located in "Puig Pedró", although the remains of Roman origin proliferate more, as it is the case of the deposits of "Els Gastells" and "More of the Senyor". The August Route crosses the municipal north term on south having uncovered in the year 1992 the remains of the Roman station of Ildum.
Nevertheless the current emplacement of the city center, coincides with a small Arab fortified population, called Alcolea "To The Calaf", that means small castle.
The medieval history has been always joined that of the municipality of Caves of Vinromá, whose castle belonged. Once reconquered on May 11, 1235, it happens to be possible of Don Blasco of Alagón and after his death to the Order of Calatrava that it assumed the task of repopulating the area granting on February 13, 1244 the Letter of Population. In 1293, it went on to hands of the Order of the Tempering that her adhered with all his possessions to the Castle of Peñíscola, providing it with the Town condition and his name been since then Villanueva of Alcolea.
Suppressed the Order of the Tempering, the town belonged to the new Order of Wild and in the year 1324 it happened from the Aragonese jurisdiction to the Valencian one.
In the XVIth century, Villanueva of Alcolea belonged to the Duke of Segorbe.
According to the official census of 1911 the number of inhabitants was 2.081.

Based traditionally in the dry land agriculture, with predominance of the cultivation of almond trees and olive trees and vineyards, at present the citrus fruits are getting also. As for the cattle it is provided with poultry and porcine developments.

 * San Antonio. These holidays take place in the middle of January. They are celebrated in Saturday and Sunday. His origin is in the XIVth century and there stand out, for his beauty and singularity, the "provesó", the "tropell" and the "coca". Everything begins with the "cream" of the bonfire, which later it will pass to the blessing of the knighthood and procession along the streets of theTown. In the procession the knighthood turns out to be forced to cross the spectacular barriers of fire arranged along the trip. Not less spectacular turns out to be the "tropell", where there is realized a career, where the riders show his skill mounting to hair, and where the beginning is decided in the last moment, and there is no definite itinerary, except the end, which is the house where they will be distributed "they coquetes", and the share-out of "coquetes", in which there is revealed the power of every taking part knighthood and the skill and insistence of the riders.
* Management holidays. In honor of San Bartolomé. From August 18 until August 30 the management holidays take place. During the same ones, it is necessary to stand out "ball of plaça" and the celebration of dances, berbenas, monumental lunches and bullfighting spectacles.