Mislata
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Mislata is a municipality in the Valencian Community
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain located in central and south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Valencia...

, in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. It has borders with the city of Valencia and Quart de Poblet
Quart de Poblet
Quart de Poblet is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Oest in the Valencian Community, Spain. It has 25,499 inhabitants .- Geography :...

 in the west and Xirivella
Xirivella
Xirivella is a municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It borders the city of Valencia and the municipality of Mislata.It is connected to central Valencia by bus routes and a railway station...

 in the south.

Population

In recent decades it has gone from being a village in the Horta region of Valencia to the most densely populated municipality in Spain http://www.ine.es/inebase/cgi/axi?COMANDO=SELECCION&CGI_DEFAULT=/inebase/temas/cgi.opt&CGI_URL=/inebase/cgi/&AXIS_PATH=/inebase/temas/t43/a011/a1998/densidad/l0/&FILE_AXIS=t10079.px and one of the ten most densely populated in Europe, with a population of 43,363 (2006 figures) spread across 2.1 km².

This growth has been assisted by better transport communications including the opening of two stations of the Valencian metro
Rapid transit
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 on 20 May 1999 in the town which provide a direct connection to the main railway station and the main shopping area in Calle Colón. Further extensions westwards to the Valencia airport and the towns of Quart de Poblet and Manises were completed in 2007.

Further construction work which was completed on green belt land in 2005 will further increase Mislata's population density
Population density
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.

The area has in a physical sense, been almost swallowed up by the encroaching suburbs of Valencia in recent years.

Transport links

Mislata is well connected with central Valencia. In addition to several bus routes, Mislata now has two metro stations, Mislata and Mislata-Almassil. A third station, Nou d'Octubre is nearby. Mislata is the only town outside the city of Valencia to be categorised as "zone A" by the private taxi system.

Local festivals

In addition to the famous Fallas festival which runs from 15-19 March, numerous other festivals also take place such as those in honour of Saint Michael Archangel (in September) or Saint Francis of Asisi (in October).

Monuments and places of interest

Mislata's main places of interest are the church of the "Mare de Déu dels Àngels" (Our Lady of the Angels) and the "Creu Coberta" (Covered Cross) that separates the town from Valencia.

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