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{{Infobox City Spain
|official_name=Cheste
|native_name=Cheste
|native_language=Spanish
|spanish_name=Cheste
|community=Valencian Community
|community_link=Valencia (autonomous community)
|province=Valencia
|province_link=Valencia (province)
|comarca=Hoya de Buñol
|comarca_link=Hoya de Buñol
|time_zone=[[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] +1)
|time_zone_summer=[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] +2)
|area=71.44
|population=7,425
|date-population=2006
|density=104
|date-density=2006
|lat_long={{coor dms|39|28|47|N|0|41|4|W|region:ES_type:city}}
|altitude=110
|image_city_map=Localització de Xest respecte del País Valencià.png
|image_city_map_size=150px
}}
'''Cheste''' ([[Valencian language|Valencian]]: '''Xest''') is a [[Municipalities of Spain|municipality]] in the [[Comarques of the Valencian Community|''comarca'']] of [[Hoya de Buñol]] in the [[Valencia (autonomous community)|Valencian Community]], [[Spain]], located 26 km from the capital [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]].
=== History ===
According to the Valencian historian [[Gaspar Juan Escolano|Escolano]], the first settlers of the region of Cheste were members of [[Iberians|Iberian]] tribes belonging to the old ''Edetania''. This view is supported by numerous remains, particularly those of ''El Castillarejo'' (Iberian ceramics and spear points from the [[Bronze Age]]).
The "[[Treasure of Cheste]]", a set of jewels and gold and silver coins, was found in the locality of "la Safa" in 1864. Among the coins there was a denarius Sgdenham 140 (RRC 44,5 from [[211 BC]]) which enabled the find to be dated to the [[second Punic war]].
=== Sport ===
About five kilometers to the east of the town is the "[[Circuit de Valencia]]", a [[motor sport]] [[race track]] which hosts the [[Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix]] since 1999.
=== Bordering Localities ===
[[Chiva]], [[Gestalgar]], [[Bugarra]], [[Pedralba]], [[Vilamarxant]], [[Riba-roja de Túria]], and [[Loriguilla]]
== External links==
* [http://www.cheste.es Official site]
* [http://www.cheste.org Photographs]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.494471,-0.685616&spn=0.009155,0.017653&t=k&hl=en Cheste on Google Maps]
* [http://cheste.comunitatvalenciana.com Cheste from the Valencian Agency of Tourism]
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