In the past, the Vall d'Alcalà was formed by seven towns: Alcalá de la Jovada, Beniaia, Criola, Benialí, Benixarco, La Roca and La Adsubia. Nowadays, it is only formed by two of them: Alcalá de la Jovada and Beniaia. The Valle de Alcalá was important as the capital of the region dominated by the Arab caudillo Al-Azraq, the one with the blue eyes that fought during years against Jaime I of Aragon who ended up exiling him. The land inaccessibility made this disproportionate battle possible. These events are still remembered in Alcalá de la Jovada with a fountain whose pipe comes out of the mouth of an effigy of the Muslim caudillo. It is a typical agricultural town whose main crop is the cherry that have been granted with the Designation of Origin certification.