Tàrbena | |
Native Name: | Tàrbena |
Native Name Lang: | ca-valencia |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Spain#Spain Valencian Community#Europe |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Coordinates: | 38.695°N -0.1008°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous Community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name2: | Alicante |
Subdivision Name3: | Marina Baixa |
Established Title: | Founded |
Parts Type: | Districts |
Government Type: | Mayor-council government |
Governing Body: | Ajuntament de Tàrbena |
Leader Party: | PP |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | José Francisco Signes Mascaró (2011) |
Area Total Km2: | 31.67 |
Elevation M: | 560 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | Spanish; Castilian: tarbenero, Spanish; Castilian: -ra (es) Catalan; Valencian: tarbener, Catalan; Valencian: -ra (va) |
Timezone1: | CET (GMT +1) |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST (GMT +2) |
Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
Postal Code: | 03518 |
Blank Info Sec1: | ES-V |
Website: | City Hall of Tàrbena |
Catalan; Valencian: Tàrbena (pronounced as /ˈtaɾbena/, Spanish; Castilian: Tárbena) is a municipality in the Catalan; Valencian: [[Comarques of the Valencian Community|comarca]] of Catalan; Valencian: [[Marina Baixa]], Alicante, Valencia, Spain.
It had been subjected to religious de-population and later re-population by an entirely different race of people. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition it was abandoned when the mostly Moorish population ran away.
It was re-populated by impoverished natives of Mallorca, who took over the tumbledown ruins and turned it into a village. A Valencian shipping magnate in whose ducal domain the mountain territory of Tarbena belonged, was involved in considerable livestock trade between the mainland and the Balearic islands. Ferrying pigs on the outboard journey, he often brought back the offal produced for a profit. Mallorcan black pudding was a sought after delicacy in Valencia, being quite distinct from local varieties. Then it occurred to him that if he put Mallorcans in one of his abandoned villages and got them to make the black pudding there, he could save the cost of transport and collect rents as well. So he then shipped a cargo of pigs out and a cargo of sausage-maker artisans back, took them up into the hills, showed them the empty village and gave it to them for free. They were a hardy lot and soon a cottage industry producing all manner of pig puddings and sausages; black, red and white, was flourishing. They still exist today, making Catalan; Valencian: [[butifarra]]s, Catalan; Valencian: [[blanquet (food)|blanquet]]s and Catalan; Valencian: [[sobrassada]].