{"id":7228,"date":"2023-07-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/blog\/sin-categorizar\/villajoyosass-moors-and-christians-tradition\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T10:49:05","slug":"villajoyosass-moors-and-christians-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/blog\/en\/travels\/villajoyosass-moors-and-christians-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Villajoyosas\u00b4s Moors and Christians tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moors and Christians is one of the oldest and biggest traditions in many Spanish towns. Some of those traditions are more than 250 years old, like the one we are going to focus on today. We are talking about Villajoyosa\u00b4s celebrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/uploads\/blog\/2023\/07\/Moros%20villajoyosa\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not Villajoyosa\u00b4s Moors and Chistians celebration are in a saint\u00b4s honor, Saint Martha. The tradition says that, back in 1538, when the moors pirates where about to conquer the town, Saint Martha helped by causing a flood that destroyed all the moor\u00b4s vessels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/uploads\/blog\/2023\/07\/Moros%20villajoyosa\/1200_451dba02567d4860dec7fba2aee26ed4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The celebrations will take over the whole week with plenty parades. Moors on one side, Christians on the other. And this is just for the show, but during that time the whole city will take the streets. Music and food all around to enjoy the summer and the celebrations with family, friends and thousands of visitors that come to the city to enjoy the show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/uploads\/blog\/2023\/07\/Moros%20villajoyosa\/descarga.jfif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for once, we do not have a Eurochange office in Villajoyosa (at least not yet) but we are not too far away, you can find us in Benidorm, where you will be able to exchange your currencies into euros with amazing rates and as we always say: With the best service. So, if you planning to go to Villajoyosa to enjoy the Moors and Christian tradition, make sure you look for our Eurochange office in Benidorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An introduction to Villajoyosa\u00b4s Moors and Christians tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travels"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NULL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NULL\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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