Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Alcalá de Chivert

Today: Spain

Years
1492–1833
Role
Head of the Chivert commandery

Alcalá de Chivert, head of the Montesa commandery that was joined to the Crown in 1592, repelled a Barbary pirate attack in 1547. After the expulsion of the Moriscos it absorbed Chivert and Santa Magdalena de Pulpis in 1632 and Alcocéber in 1663. Its church of San Juan Bautista, in Valencian classicist Baroque, was begun in 1736 and blessed thirty years later; the bell tower was finished in 1803.

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