
10/11/25
The history of Pilota Valenciana has been the central theme of the Assembly



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The Valencian Pilota Chair was born in July 2016 thanks to an agreement between Universitat de València and Generalitat Valenciana. According to the agreement, a plethora of educational, cultural, research and expansion activities come to term aiming to broaden the knowledge and reach of the traditional sport that is Valencian pilota.
Pilotari Francesc Cabanes Pastor, 'El Genovés', was born in 1954 in Genovés, in the Valencian region of La Costera.
A dissemination space to find resources in order to learn about Valencian pilota aimed for research projects. Including information about its history, modalities, facilities, materials, techniques, didactic units, pilota around the world, videos, pictures, vocabularies, bibliographies and other articles.
A series of educational, cultural, research and expansion activities aimed to improve the dissemination and knowledge of the traditional sport that is Valencian pilota.
To make this knowledge more accessible, we created the Valencian Pilota Scientific Archive 'El Genovés', a tool to find the projects of degree, master's degree and doctorate students easily and quickly.