Rocha Palmera

CUBO LAGAR ROCHA PALMERA

In 2012, a group of people from Viver, accompanied by the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, began a cultural project to bring together, learn about and disseminate this enormous cultural heritage related to wine, of which we can still find important vestiges in Viver today.

 

Throughout the centuries and since the Romans, the history of Viver has run parallel to wine, reaching its apotheosis in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when the phylloxera plague arrived in Viver (1915), causing an economic crisis and the progressive disappearance of the culture of vine cultivation and wine production.

 

On a productive or economic level, the botanist Cavanilles says that the number of vineyards is prodigious. This statement corroborates the importance of the existing wine vats in the town. This great wine production had to be distributed, which is why Cavanilles himself tells us that a third of the population was dedicated to carting, that is to say, to transport, which is why the wine activity of Viver was the great economic axis on which the town grew, supported by the passage of the Camino Real.