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21st October 2022 VALENCIA’S TRIBUNAL DE LES AIGUES: EUROPE’S OLDEST LEGAL BODY
On the doorstep of Valencia’s Cathedral, the Puerta de los Apóstoles de la Catedral de València, a group of people in black robes ascend the cathedral steps. No, not monks or farmers. They are Judges of Europe’s oldest continuing legal institution, the Tribunal de las Aguas (the Water Court). This body meets every Thursday at […]
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11th July 2016 EL TRIBUNAL DE LES AIGUES
EL TRIBUNAL DE LES AIGUES If you are passing through Plaza de la Virgen one Thursday morning, you might come across a group of eight old men in black capes huddled around the door of the cathedral. This is not, as you might think, an octogenarian Batman convention but El Tribunal de les Aigues, one […]
