{"id":1851,"date":"2016-09-26T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.benimacletconta.com\/alqueria-del-saco\/?lang=en"},"modified":"2016-11-30T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T10:48:25","slug":"alqueria-del-saco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/en\/alqueria-del-saco\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cSaco\u201d Farmhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-b75c891232f39d01a8d00e2a0e674074\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-b75c891232f39d01a8d00e2a0e674074{\nborder-width:1px;\nborder-color:#83a846;\nborder-style:solid;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:20px 20px 20px 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-b75c891232f39d01a8d00e2a0e674074 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>The \u201cSaco\u201d Farmhouse<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Date: principio del siglo XX<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Address:\u00a0estaba situada en el descampado que hay entre las calles San Columbano, Poeta Ricart Sanmart\u00ed, Masquefa y Avenida de Valladolid<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architects:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae av_one_half  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_hr  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '   ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-b25922bf93d687f3d03a2d1f7ca5770c\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-b25922bf93d687f3d03a2d1f7ca5770c .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:11px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-b25922bf93d687f3d03a2d1f7ca5770c av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-100x74.jpg 100w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-200x149.jpg 200w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-600x449.jpg 600w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-900x674.jpg 900w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class='avia_image' ><img class='wp-image-2889 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2889 avia_image' src=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg\" alt='' title='Alqueria del Saco - BenimacletConta'  height=\"767\" width=\"1024\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-100x74.jpg 100w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-200x149.jpg 200w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-600x449.jpg 600w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta-900x674.jpg 900w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Alqueria-del-Saco-BenimacletConta.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '   ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The Saco farmhouse, which no longer exists, was another emblematic place of Benimaclet. In order to reconstruct its history, we have spoken to Mar\u00eda Belenguer Suay, the last person to live there.<\/p>\n<p>This farmhouse was located on a piece of land between San Columbano, Poeta Ricart Sanmart\u00ed, Masquefa streets and Valladolid Avenue. Currently, this piece of land is being used as a car park, due to the large number of vehicles in the Benimaclet area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"exp-col-content-holder\">\n<p><a class=\"expand-cnt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/2016.benimacletconta.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1849&amp;action=edit&amp;lang=es#\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-content\">\n<p class=\"hiddenContentp\">Mar\u00eda tells us that this farmhouse, with its <em>huerta<\/em> (orchard), belonged to the Counts of Trenor, an aristocratic, military and business family, who lived in La Paz Street and who owned large areas of land. Maria\u2019s husband\u2019s grandparents, Isidro Senent and Mar\u00eda Penya, were the tenants of the farmhouse and its <em>huerta<\/em>, which stretched as far as the present-day Emilio Bar\u00f3 Street. In 1933, they became the farm owners, as they were able to purchase it from the counts. It was a large country house. Upstairs there were several rooms, and downstairs there was a kitchen and a living room. As they needed fertiliser for the land, they kept animals, especially pigs, from which they obtained both this fertiliser and food for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>As was normal for the time, the people who worked on the farm were day labourers who slept and ate in the farmhouses during sowing or harvesting season. During the potato season, the smallest potatoes were boiled in big pots, as they could not be sold. After they had been boiled, they were covered with sacks. People say that, when the labourers were hungry, they used to say: <em>Amo, \u00bfsaco una?<\/em> Which means: Master, may I take one? Referring to the boiled potatoes. Passers-by would hear the same question over and over again, and would say: These people are always saying saco, and saco once again. That is why Mar\u00eda remembers that her family used to say that the name of Alquer\u00eda del Saco, comes from this <em>\u201csaco\u201d<\/em>, from the verb sacar (to take out).<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda was born and spent part of her life, in the \u201clast house of Benimaclet\u201d, in number 3 Cabanyal Road. This road no longer exists, but part of it followed what is now Ram\u00f3n Llull Street. When she married her husband, Jose Senent Penya, in 1956, she went to live with him and his family in the Alquer\u00eda del Saco.<\/p>\n<p>This alquer\u00eda was a really important and emblematic place in Benimaclet, because on many occasions, and for many reasons, it was a meeting place for the local neighbourhood. They were a much-loved family because, generally, they did not have problems with anybody: \u201cPeople came to celebrate the Easter holidays, children came to play, young people dressed up\u2026 The priest of Vera came around here quite often, he used to sit down to take confession by the irrigation channel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda remembers that her father-in-law told them that they had a little shop in the alquer\u00eda, where the farm workers used to go to have lunch. They also sold wine and other essential goods.<\/p>\n<p>After the civil war, the church was visibly damaged, and it could not be used for celebrating mass. During the church restoration, mass started to be celebrated in the Alquer\u00eda del Saco. Christenings and communions were celebrated there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Later, this <em>alquer\u00eda<\/em> was used as a wholesale warehouse. Potatoes were bought and packed in bags to be sold to small supermarkets. There were even a few export activities due to the demand for \u201cwicker baskets with potatoes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the proximity of the \u201c<em>trenet<\/em>\u201d (train), and the Aragon train line, there were many railway workers living in Benimaclet. They celebrated \u201crailway workers\u2019 day\u201d on the third Sunday of May. Isidro, Maria\u2019s husband\u2019s elder brother, worked for Renfe forging iron, and he was a clavario (religious devotee) of this celebration. It was common that a statue of the Virgin Mary stayed at a clavario\u2019s house. Thus, the little \u201cVirgen de los Desamparados\u201d, which belonged to Renfe, stayed at the Alquer\u00eda del Saco during the celebrations one year, with all the crowds of people and the festivities that came with it.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1987, a man who was preparing a report about Valencia\u2019s huerta, walked by the alquer\u00eda and said that it was a shame that it was going to be demolished. That is how Mar\u00eda discovered what the future of her home was going to be. She did not know anything about it, so the man explained to her that the council had plans for some new constructions and would be building on the land where the alquer\u00eda was located. Mar\u00eda said: \u201cNo way, over my dead body!\u201d But unfortunately, there was nothing that she could do to save her beloved alquer\u00eda from the savage urban development that was being carried out in Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda\u2019s husband had passed away on 16 July 1980, so he did not live long enough to hear about it. It was not really a proper expropriation, but they were forced to sell, because if they had not done it at the beginning, it seems that the land would have been expropriated, and they would have received a much smaller economic compensation. On the 14th of July 1993, they had to move out. A tall building of flats was constructed next to the alquer\u00eda and a few days later, the Alquer\u00eda del Saco was demolished. Today, from her balcony, Mar\u00eda can see the piece of land where the alquer\u00eda used to be, full of life, and this makes her feel powerless. 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