DESCRIPTION

As a curiosity, between the house and the old optician (house of the "Senyoret de Favara") there was a house that was demolished in 1874 to open Alfonso XII Street and make a boulevard to build the houses of the richest families in the town.

The house at number 5-7 Avenida Jaime I, was built in 1876 for the couturier Fernando Cambrils (1842-1921), but in 1890 he exchanged it for a piece of land in the marsh to the Dowager Countess of Rótova, and then it passed to the second Count of Rótova (Francisco Faus). Around 1940 it became the "Fonda Valencia" hostel run by the Peretó family. In the 60s it was divided into two, one of them was demolished in 1977 to build a block of flats and the other is the current notary's office.

This corner house was built in 1905, in modernist style. It consists of three floors and is topped by a tower with a balcony.

Felipe Miralles, a doctor by profession, participated in the third Carlist war (1872-1876) and later settled in Marseille where together with a partner he founded a wine marketing company, with which he earned a lot of money. He returned to Pego bringing the first car at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Felipe's son, Valeriano Miralles Cousy, a lawyer, dedicated himself to agronomy and the orange trade, as well as to municipal politics.

And his grandson, Valerià Miralles Ortolà, was born in Pego in 1939, from a wealthy family, with conservative tendencies and strong religious roots. He studied at the Faculty of Law, began to take an interest in politics by leading clandestine meetings and demonstrations against the established regime. In 1960 he was one of the founders of the Valencian Socialist Party (PSV). He also studied another degree, that of Economics, at the same time that he began his first contacts with Valencian communism. For almost a decade he frequented – not without alterations and disagreements – the communist environments of the PCPV (Communist Party of the Valencian Country) and the PSAN (Socialist Party of National Liberation). From here Esquerra Unida del País Valencià was born in 1982, from which Unitat del Poble Valencià (UPV) was created in 1984. In 1992 he joined the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, País Valencià section, of which he was its first president (1992-1996) and candidate for the Senate in 1996. He also dedicated himself to the world of books, founding the Concret bookshop in Valencia, in 1967, and the Garbí publishing house. In 1983 he founded Edicions del Bullent with the aim of bringing books in their language to Valencians. In 1997 he died and was buried in Pego surrounded by many personalities from the Valencian political and cultural world. In 2000 the City Council of Pego dedicated a street with his name.