This play is inspired by a story from Valencian novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, entitled El dragón del Patriarca; the story itself takes its inspiration from a popular Valencian legend. Manel Cubedo both translated the original tale from Spanish to Catalan and adapted it for puppet theatre, so that the play could be performed in the streets or at the theatre. The author wrote a first version of the play which was staged in 1980, by the theatrical troupe L’Entaulat Teatre at the Teatre Micalet in Valencia. Then in 1995, fifteen years later, he produced a second, more complete version, staged again by the same theatrical troupe, this time in the Sala Escalante in Valencia. In these two productions, Manel Cubedo was both the stage director and one of the puppeteers.

The play won the children’s theatre award of the district Council of Valencia in 1995.

When the Albufera of Valencia was still only an immense lake, a dragon appeared there and terrorised the population. The terrible beast found pleasure in eating people. Neither the militia, nor the Church, nor the governor himself were capable of defeating the obdurate dragon. Only Salomon (Solomon), a Jewish merchant, wanted to fight the dragon, but he was unjustly poisoned in the end. When Salomon was finally freed, he killed the dragon using a ruse and the people applauded him.