We have not yet documented this town's living legend.
Xàbia lived from moscatel raisins in the 19th century, exported to English-speaking countries from its port—riuraus and naias can still be seen—until the crisis brought on by Corinth currants and phylloxera. The grapes also yielded mistela and moscatel. There were already Roman villas devoted to the vine in the 1st–2nd centuries.