Official Name: | Novelda |
Settlement Type: | City and municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Spain Province of Alicante#Spain Valencia#Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Spain |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Alicante |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Vinalopó Mitjà |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Francisco Martínez Alted |
Leader Party: | PSOE |
Area Total Km2: | 75.7 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Elevation M: | 241 |
Postal Code: | 03660 |
Population Demonym: | Noveldense (Spanish) Novelder, noveldera (Valencian) |
Population Blank1 Title: | Language |
Population Blank1: | Spanish |
Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
Coordinates: | 38.385°N -0.768°W |
Novelda (pronounced as /noˈvɛlda/, pronounced as /nuˈvɛldɛ/; pronounced as /es/) is a town located in the province of Alicante, Spain., it has a total population of 27,135 inhabitants.
Novelda has important quarries and mines of marble, limestone, silica, clay and gypsum. It is a major centre of the marble industry.
It was probably settled by Greeks, although it was controlled by Carthaginians and Romans. Some centuries later it was conquered from the Moors by a son of Ferdinand III of Castile.
Places of tourist interest in Novelda include the monastery of Santa María Magdalena (dated from the 19th century), which has a church designed by a disciple of Antoni Gaudí, the Moorish castle of the Mola, with its unique triangular tower, and the Museum of Modernism. This is a well preserved art nouveau house with original artifacts from the 1920s. The house itself is a work of art. The House-Museum is located in a modernist building designed by Pedro Cerdan Martinez (1863-1947) and is now a centre for modernist research and promotion. There are also several natural and salty lakes to visit in the surroundings.