Inland experience

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Points of information tour in the Vall d’Albaida TOURIST INFO MUSEU DE NINO BRAVO Passeig de l’Eixample, s/n 46812 Aielo de Malferit T 96 236 07 20 / 654 394 296 Inland aielodemalferit.es Aielo de experience Malferit [email protected]

Albaida TOURIST INFO ALBAIDA MUSEU INTERNACIONAL DE TITELLES D’ALBAIDA (MITA) Plaça del Pintor Segrelles, 19 (Palau dels Milà i Aragò) 46860 Albaida T 96 239 01 86 MANCOMUNITAT albaidaturisme.com DE MUNICIPIS [email protected] DE LA VALL D’ALBAIDA DEPARTAMENT DE TURISME TOURIST INFO BOCAIRENT c/ Sant Francesc, 8 pl. Baixa Plaça de l’Ajuntament, 2 46870 Ontinyent 46880 Bocairent T 96 238 90 91 T 96 290 50 62 F 96 238 85 45 bocairent.org The La Vall d’Albaida region is formed valldalbaida.com [email protected] by 34 towns and located in the south of mancovall.com [email protected] València province. The Vall is an inland TOURIST INFO LLUTXENT jewel that offers many cultural and natural Av. de València, 66 attractions. Its proximity to the coast and 46838 Llutxent the most important cities in the region T 96 229 43 86 / 96 229 40 01 makes it a perfect place for rural and inland llutxent.es [email protected] tourism. The Vall d’Albaida is surrounded by the TOURIST INFO ONTINYENT Mariola Mountain range, the Grossa Plaça de Sant Roc, 2 (Palau de la Vila) Mountain range, the ’s Mountain 46870 Ontinyent range, the Benicadell’s Mountain range and T 96 291 60 90 the Buscarró Mountain range and bathed turismo.ontinyent.es by the Clariano River and the Albaida River. [email protected] For that reason it is a region that offers everything with a great environmental TOURIST INFO VALL D’ALBAIDA attraction. If you want to have a break from c/ Sant Francesc, 8 pl. Baixa the city and enjoy the landscape of the area, 46870 Ontinyent T 96 291 60 90 the Vall d’Albaida offers you rich cultural [email protected] heritage and exquisite cuisine. 4 | 5

Index

6 Enjoy it with 5 senses Inland 8 Town by town experience 10 Map of the municipalities 12 The towns of the Vall 108 The Vall d’Albaida in 96 hours 120 Trails 135 Natural spaces 136 Festivities 151 Museums 156 Restaurants, wine cellars and recipe restaurant guide winery guide, traditional products and recipes Recipes 176 Accommodation 180 Active turism 184 Map

Welcome to the guide of the Vall d’Albaida. This guide is a compilation of all the basic and complementary offer of the region, to make known in an innovative way the alternatives of leisure, tourism and culture offered by the Vall d’Albaida.

In this post you will find everything you need to make your visit to our populations as complete as possible. Tourist guide of the vall d’albaida region 6 | 7

The Vall d’Albaida Enjoy it with the five senses The Vall d’Albaida region is very easy to The municipalities of Bellús, Guadasséquies, find. Regarding its communications, the Alfarrasí, and El Palomar are northern part can be accessed by the A-7 connected by the N-340 national highway, Mediterranean Motorway that comes from which crosses the Vall d’Albaida region . This connects, at the height of from north to south. This road runs parallel the municipality of Canals, with the CV-40 to the CV-40 motorway and connects us to Highway which in turn connects the towns the north with the municipality of Xàtiva, of Aielo de Malferit, Ontinyent, Agullent, belonging to the region of La Costera and Albaida, where it is renamed and to the south with Alcoy, capital of the the A-7 Highway and continues its course in region of l’Alcoià. the direction of capital. In addition to the aforementioned Another important road connecting the communications, a wide network of municipalities of the Vall d’Albaida is the regional roads runs through the Vall CV-60 road, which begins its journey at the d’Albaida, connecting all the municipalities link with CV-40 in l’Olleria and heads east that make up this region. giving access via the CV-619 road to the municipalities of Castelló de , Rugat, and . If you continue east on the CV-60 highway, you will reach the town of Gandía, in the Safor region. Tourist guide of the vall d’albaida region 8 | 9

The Vall d’Albaida

Town by Town

The region of Vall d’Albaida, composed of ; to capture the essence 34 municipalities and located in the south of yesteryear, customs, music, color, of the , is an inland gunpowder, fireworks, traditional festivities, gem that houses numerous cultural and typical clothing, cultural events in all natural attractions. Its proximity to the municipalities; to contemplate the majestic coast and the provincial capitals makes the and monumental medieval buildings of Vall d’Albaida a perfect place for rural and Llutxent, Albaida, Ontinyent and Bocairent; inland tourism. to feel the textile in Albaida, Agullent, Ontinyent and Bocairent; the esparto The Vall d’Albaida is surrounded by the grass in Atzeneta d’Albaida; the glass in Mariola Mountain range, the Grossa Aielo de Malferit and l’Olleria; the pitchers Mountain range, the Agullent mountain in Castelló de Rugat, and the “Arrop i range, the Benicadell mountain range and Tallaetes” and chocolate in Benigànim; the Buscarró Mountain range and bathed to relax in a privileged environment with by the Clariano River and the Albaida River. protected places of great beauty in Bellús, For this reason it is a complete region that, , Guadasséquies, Otos, Pinet, in addition to being a great environmental Rugat, Salem, and ; incentive if you want to disconnect from to enjoy the charming corners of Aielo the city and enjoy the flora and fauna of the de Rugat, Benissoda, , Carrícola, area, also offers you a rich cultural heritage Montaverner, Montitxelvo, El Palomar and and exquisite gastronomy. Ràfol de Salem. And of course, to savor the pleasure of the exquisite and succulent We invite you to enter the Vall d’Albaida cuisine of each of the 34 municipalities. and enjoy with your five senses the best wines in , , Quatretonda, Agullent and Ontinyent. To perceive the virgin and natural aroma of our oil in Alfarrasí, Bèlgida, , and Tourist guide of the vall d’albaida region 10 | 11

Vall d’Albaida region

Guide of municipalities

MANCOMUNIDAD DE MUNICIPIOS DE LA VALL D’ALBAIDA PINET Population: 87.349 hab. Demonym: valldalbaidino/valldalbaidina Tourism departament: BENIGÀNIM QUATRETONDA Avda. Sant Francesc, 8 pl. Baixa BELLÚS LLUTXENT 46870 Ontinyent GUADASSÉQUIES Tourism Phone No.: 96 238 90 91 Web: SEMPERE BENICOLET www.mancovall.com L’OLLERIA BENISSUERA LA POBLA www.valldalbaida.com ALFARRASÍ E-mail: DEL DUC MONTAVERNER [email protected] MONTIXELVO TERRATEIG AIELO BUFALI BÈLGIDA EL RÀFOL RUGAT DE RUGAT DE SALEM EL PALOMAR OTOS CASTELLÓ DE RUGAT ONTINYENT ALBAIDA CARRÍCOLA SALEM BENIATJAR BENISSODA ATZENETA D’ALBAIDA AGULLENT FONTANARS DELS ALFORINS

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List of municipalities

11 Agullent 12 Aielo Malferit 13 Aielo de Rugat 14 Albaida 15 Alfarrasí 16 Atzeneta d’Albaida 17 Bèlgida 18 Bellús 19 Beniatjar 20 Benicolet 21 Benigànim 22 Benissoda 23 Benissuera 24 Bocairent 25 Bufali 26 Carrícola 27 Castelló de Rugat 28 Fontanars dels Alforins 29 Guadasséquies 30 Llutxent 31 Montaverner 32 Montitxelvo 33 L’Olleria 34 Ontinyent 35 Otos 36 El Palomar 37 Pinet 38 La Pobla del Duc 39 Quatretonda 40 El Ràfol de Salem 41 Rugat 42 Salem 43 Sempere 44 Terrateig Tourist guide of the vall d’Albaida region 16 | 17

AGULLENT Church of St. Bartolomé (XV-XVIII century) Park of the “Jordana” fountain The church of St. Bartolomé is flirtatious, Pass through Agullent and not visit this because it has a facade that seduces spot is like not having really gone to the without large ornamentations. Inside, locality. Children’s play area, strolling area Population: 2.410 hab. however, sobriety is relegated by a major and bar-restaurant. By the fountain of five Municipal area: 16’24 km2 altar with a Churrigueresque-style décor. pipes, which gives its name to the park, In this main altar of gilt and columns arise fresh the water that is born in the Altitude: 360 m. stands out the municipal shield in which Penyetes, and that crosses through the Demonym: agullentí, agullentina AGULLENT highlights a needle that symbolizes the ditch all the historic center. From this place Town Hall Phone no.: 96 290 70 80 craftsmanship of esparto that was made depart various marked trails that bring us Webs: www.agullent.es from ancient times in this town. In addition, closer to various places of the Agullent’s www.turismeagullent.com the altarpiece of the Altar of Souls is Mountain such as ‘Cava de Pedrera’. E-mail: [email protected] attributed to the school of Joanes. Hermitage of St. Vicente Ferrer Convent of St. Jacinto (XVI-XVIII century) Scenario, every first Friday of September, The cloistered nuns have today kept the of possibly the oldest night pilgrimage at MONUMENTS Molino Harinero s. XV architectural secrets of this clerical building the regional level, which for more than four Mayor Square and Town Hall After touring the entire historical center, that in the time of the Civil War became an hundred years recalls the miracle of ‘San This square is both the administrative nu- the water of the ‘Jordana’ fountain asylum of refuge two republicans. It is a Vicente Ferrer’, who redeemed the village cleus and the scene of festive and cultural gave its energy to the wheels of the flour Dominican convent originating in the of the plague. It is built in the eighteenth demonstrations, especially the Moors and mill. Originally from the 15th century, it sixteenth century with an extensive cloister. century on the foundations of the old Christians festivities and the September was active until the 80s of the twentieth In the chapel of the Virgin of the Roser of hermitage, and next to it is a hostel-house dances, which have more than 400 years of century. Today, it has been converted into the church, which opens in the eyes of all of colonies and a space of homemade food. history. rural accommodation, and has a visitable the world in the festivities of Moors and The town hall, which preserves the 1925 museum in the basement where some of Christians, there are paintings of Josep Fornet de la Neu facade, was built with the help of Cardinal the machinery is preserved. Renau, father of the of the well-known Made of limestone and mortar, this small Reig in the same place where, since the poster artist. snow pit, which is visitable, bears witness to Middle Age, was there the oven of the villa. an already extinct economic activity: snow Washing place and ditch “de arriba” trade. Topped with a vault, it is listed as one An immense hackberry gives you shade if of the 137 snow pits recorded in the from this point you walk towards the small Southern Bético sector. Its activity was circular route of the ravine of ‘Jordana’ strictly local, without intervene into the fountain or if you walk towards the large-scale market. According to the official neighboring towns. The original base and chronicler of Agullent, the Fornet was structure of the public laundry probably already built at the end of the sixteenth comes from the seventeenth century, century, since the municipal documentation although the ditch is at least two centuries includes the application for snow from earlier. Ontinyent to Agullent, as a therapeutic remedy for the plague epidemic they were suffering. Tourist guide of the vall d’Albaida region 18 | 19

July: Wednesday “a la fresca” AIELO DE MALFERIT September: The first Friday of September is celebrated the ‘Nit de les Fogueretes’, a festivity declared of Tourist Interest. The following day, is The Miracle of St. Vicente Ferrer and on Sunday is the day of the Poblation: 4.646hab. Christ of Health. Municipal area: 27,08 km2 AIELO Altitude: 282 m. DE MALFERIT EXCURSIONS PRV-121, PRV-134, PRV-135 Demonym: aieloner, aielonera PR-CV 121: Path dels Enginyers - Covalta Town Hall Phone no.: 96 236 30 10 (16,5km 3h 35min). Web: www.aielodemalferit.es PR-CV 134: Agullent – (7,6km 2h E-mail: [email protected] 35min)- passing by la Cava de la Pedrera PR-CV 135: Path de l’Assagador - Agullent (10km 3h). MONUMENTS MUSEOGRAPHIC COLLECTION Other excursions Liquor Factory arrival of the lords of Malferit for whom it Molí Fariner • The Jordana’s fountain, hermitage and The alcohol tradition of Aielo de Malferit had a residential and defensive utility. Since C./ José Mª Casanova, 4 snow cave dates back to the eighteenth century and its construction it has undergone numerous Tel: 96 290 74 72 • La Colvalta (16,8 km 4h) today there is still an artisan distillery with renovations, such as the one carried out to Hours: arrange visit by phone. • The Finestres cave (13,8 km 3h) more than 120 years of existence, which the eighteenth century that significantly In the urban center is preserved the flour • El Torrater (11’6 km 3h) became supplier of the Royal Household. If affected its structure, transforming the mill dedicated to grinding all kinds of • The Patge’s fountain (6,8 km 1h 42min) you can visit it you can try the house, ‘cola’ palace to the taste of the time. After the cereals. The 15th-century building still • The fountain of the Maciana (3,36 km liqueur or ‘llimonet’ and buy handmade rehabilitation, it became the headquarters records the traditional infrastructures as 53min) products. of the City Council. In the palace stands out it maintains the irrigation system from the • Agullent stretch: Alba’s pathway – the vertical sundial, located in the square, ‘Jordana’ fountain, “La limpia”, where the Santiago (Xàbia - Santiago) Palace - Castle of Malferit which probably dates from the nineteenth wheat, dryer and mill were rinsed, which It is part of itinerary no. 5 of the Vall Declared Good of Cultural Interest, dates century and has a low relief decoration of preserves all the machinery to grind and d’Albaida routes. back to the fifteenth century with the plaster. classify the grain. Along with the machinery there is a collection of objects linked to life LOCAL PRODUCTS and work in the mill. • Paraffin • Wax FEASTS & ANNUAL ACTIVITIES • Knitting goods January: St. Antonio Abad • Elaboration of Valencian balls Easter: The weekend after Easter the • Traditional cold meats festivities of Moors and Christians are • Wine celebrated in honor of St. Vicente Ferrer May: Musical May TELEPHONES OF INTEREST : Photo Rally ‘Poble i Natura Town Hall: 96 290 70 80 June: Corpus Christi Health Centre: 96 291 9548 July: Songs at dusk (singer-songwriters Emergencies Health Centre: 96 291 95 10 night) Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 20 | 21

Power plant image of conception as an obvious sign of [email protected] characters are interspersed throughout It operated from 1895 to 1925 and was the charitable tradition of the people in the Hours: Saturdays from 6pm to 8pm the exhibition in whose silhouette facts and a power company to populations such as past time. Sundays from 11:00 to 13:30 legends of interest to the little ones are Ontinyent, Bocairent and l’Olleria. Covered From Monday to Friday the visit must be explained. in flat tile, it has a tower that communicates Viewpoint of the River Clariano arranged with the floodgates, providing the water Newly built park that offers you a pedes- More info: wwww.museoninobravo.com Characters for children that irrigates the orchards. trian and landscape itinerary along the With a different graphic treatment and slope of the Clariano River and magnificent Museum of local history accompanied by very short texts and Portal del Carmen views of the Serratella. The oldest rooms of the Malferit Palce, built simple, they are interspersed throughout Ancient gateway to the villa. Of great urban in the fifteenth century, host a complete the exhibition characters greatly in whose and religious value. It is a stay on a Bajo Bridge tour of the history of the village. silhouette facts and legends of interest are half-point arch and open to the population Located on the Clariano River, its existence The exhibition is thought and designed to explained to the little ones. exhibiting the image of the Virgen del has been observed since the sixteenth instruct and amuse, to satisfy both lovers of Carmen with a wooden partition. century, made up the access from the town historical detail and the curious who enjoys Contact & hours to the orchard and the Serratella. With thick the anecdotes; both older and young. Pl. Palacio, 1 Hermitage hexagonal pillars and 5 half-point arches, With an original but rigorous approach, Contact: 654 394 296 / 695 796 825 Single and rectangular nave with a closed the partition and concrete are later. the content has been conceived in four Hours: arrange visit access patch, probably dating from the first narrative axes, with different objectives, but More info: quarter of the eighteenth century. It houses MUSEUMS AND MUSEOGRAPHIC complementary to each other: http://se/tours/museo-historia-local/ the images of St. Joaquin and Sta. Ana, as COLLECTIONS well as that of the patron Saint Engracio Nino Bravo Museum History of Aielo de Malferit Elvira Aparicio Ceramic exhibition Mártir. At her feet contains the tomb of If you are an admirer of Nino Bravo, you can A chronologically ordered route that begins The ceramist Elvira Aparicio Llovet gave an María Inés Orilla Castelló, in which she not miss visiting Aielo de Malferit, the town in Prehistory and ends in the twentieth extraordinary collection of works that have is described as “... Blessed professed of the where he was born, and who dedicates a century. It collects local and national been collected in a permanent exhibition at Carmen, benefactress of this chapel...” museum that compiles his personal and facts- they were relevant to the locality, the Palace of the Marquises of Malferit. His professional career. It is a temple full of from a political, social or artistic point of technique is practically the same as that Ensanche Walk personal objects, photographs, costumes, view. used in the eighteenth century. However, Central park of the town in which you can discography, press and audiovisual her works are not a reissue of the past but find two unique buildings: the Old Schools remnants where “you can feel and touch Highlights a vindication of the same fruit of her hands, and the Charity Hospital. The first, Nino” as it says in the guestbook. Selection of the most important facts in artistic talent and cultural background as inaugurated in 1930, of a high ground The permanent exhibition collects the the history of Aielo de Malferit that at the an art historian, journalist and teacher. plant with a central body that divides the objections ceded by the family, fans and time were a radical change in the lives of its two parts in which the students, boys and friends of Luis Manuel Ferri “Nino Bravo”, citizens. The Borgia and her time girls were distributed anciently, all presided as well as a large amount of audiovisual This collection claims the history of the over by Juvenal’s quotation “Men sana, in and sound material, directly related to the Biographies Borgia family, which the artist considers corpore sano”. It currently houses the Nino singer. The visit ends with the screening of Tour of the lives of the most illustrious mistreated by an exaggerated black legend Bravo Museum. And the second, the a documentary about the life, artistic and characters of the municipality among which written without taking into account the Hospital Beneficencia, of H-shaped plant. professional trajectory of Nino Bravo. we find prominent figures of politics, sport, historical context in which it was lived. This one stands out for its lattice that closes culture and even popular legend. the enclosure, for its modernist treatment, Contact & hours Characters for children. With a different and for its main facade, with decoration Paseo del Ensanche, s/n graphic treatment and accompanied by of ceramic remains and topped with the Contact: 654 394 296/695 796 825 very short and simple texts, large Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 22 | 23

The Little Prince LOCAL PRODUCE AIELO DE RUGAT The little Prince’s best-known phrase “only • Wicker looks good with the heart. The essential is • Glass invisible to the eyes” permeates the spirit of • Rod and bearded the pieces in this collection. Because to • Manufacture of knitwear enjoy it we must involve our hearts, for the • Home textiles Population: 180 hab. essence of art is - only apparently - invisible • Artisan liquor distillery Municipal area: 7,66 km2 to the eyes. • Cold meats Altitude: 267 m. AIELO DE RUGAT Beneiteres TELEPHONES OF INTEREST Demonym: aielí, aielina The pots of Elvira Aparicio stand out for Tourist info Aielo De Malferit Town Hall Phone no.: 96 289 71 29 their content, for the story they tell through 654 394 296 - 695 796 825 Web: www.aieloderugat.es their numerous details. I dream pieces to Nino Bravo Museum. E-mail: [email protected] see and to “read”. Aielo de Malferit Town Hall 654 394296 - 695 796 825 From other pieces Town Hall / Switchboard Albahacas, centerpieces, latinters… 96 236 30 10 MONUMENTS Local police Urban core Aielo de Rugat’s Castle Contact & hours 609 310 888 – 626507182 Its origin dates back to an ancient Muslim Muslim Fortification that has a cistern Pl. Palacio, 1 farmstead. of water in good condition. The thick Contact: 654 394 296 / 695 796 825 LINKS OF INTEREST walls, still standing, give us an idea of the Hours: arrange visit turismo.aielodemalferit.es Church of the Assumption outbuildings of this castle in which Jaume www.museoninobravo.com Dates back of the eighteenth century, its I was ambushed by the Arab Warlord Al- FESTIVITIES bell tower is square in plan and has two Azraq. From this building you can discover January: St. Antonio Abad bodies. Highlights the sundial, included in magnificent views of Benicadell, Grossa and Second weekend of February: Half Year the route of the regional sundials Mondúver mountains. Feast of Moors and Christians (Itinerary 2). Thursday before ash wednesday: “La Cassoleta” July: feast of the streets “Saints of the Rock and Carmen Portal” From 5 to 8 August: patron saint festivities of Moors and Christians in honor of the Christ of Poverty and Holy Engracio. August: feast of the St. Lorenzo Street

HOMOLOGATED TRAILS: SL-CV 11: path of the Umbría (6’8 km). PR-CV 125: la Solana trail (16 km). PR-CV 435: Barranc de la Fos path (10,5 km). Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 24 | 25

FESTIVITIES ALBAIDA In mid-January: St. Antonio Abad February: Carnival Second weekend of August: patronal feasts Population: 5.908 hab. and Moors and Christians in honor of the Municipal area: 36 km2 Assumption. Altitude: 317 m. EXCURSIONS Demonym: albaidí, albaidina SL-CV 43: Town Hall Phone no.: 96 290 09 60 ALBAIDA Aielo de Rugat (5’3 km 1h 45 min) Tourist info Phone no.: 96 239 01 86 Web: www.albaida.es Other excursions: E-mails: [email protected] • The Route of Jaume I with the castle [email protected] • Jaume I Route: Moorish path in La Vall d’Albaida [email protected] • At the fountains: Pasta, la Mollana, de la MONUMENTS Baroque paintings by Bertomeu Albert in Penya de l’Hedra & de Ferri Marquesal Palace of the Mila & Aragó the 17th century. Highlights the throne and • The Villagrasa raft The palace is located in the Mayor Square, music hall, the Christ room, the white room • Les penyes Llúcies & caseta del Magre presiding over access to the ‘Clos de la and the Marquis’ bedroom. In addition to • El Tossal - La penya de l’Hedra Vila’ (old walled enclosure). It consists of the paintings of Albert, in the noble area Form part of the itinerary no. 4 of the three towers and was built in three phases of the palace, it is worth highlighting its routes of the Vall d’Albaida. between 1.471 and 1.610 on walls of the spectacular Gothic hall, which would be thirteenth century. It is the most unique part of an old house of the thirteenth LOCAL PRODUCTS and emblematic building of Albaida, century belonging to the feudal lord Conrad • Agricultural products symbol of the ancient feudal power, now Llanca; and in the west, between the tower transformed into a public space since in of the west and the middle tower, we find 1992 it was acquired by the town hall. the International Puppet Museum and the The palace rooms are decorated with Tourist Office. Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 26 | 27

In 1995, began a process of restoration Interest since 2013. Thus, throughout the and integral rehabilitation that has allowed year more than 3,200 touches, turns and the local people to return a space that repeats are performed manually from the for many years was inaccessible for them. bell tower of the archpriest church of La Attached to the palace we find the Porta Asunción. Work is currently underway to de la Vila, a half-point arch built in 1460 adapt the bell ring school and launch the and that closed the access to the ‘Clos de International Museum of the Manual Bell la Vila’. Other elements to highlight are: Ringing. The Bell Tower of Albaida can be the 18th-century arch, which gives access visited with a guided tour of the Tourist Info. to the church and which retains some of the baroque decoration of an old chamber Mayor Gate and Barbican of St. Cristóbal ordeal, the 13th-century watchtower on It is the only existing gate in Andalusian Fora-Fora Avenue and the various shields of times to which a viewpoint or barbican with the families who have inhabited the palace defensive character was added during the and which we find distributed by its facade. fourteenth or fifteenth century. It consists of a low wall, shaped like a trapeze, that is Archpriest Church of Our Lady of La townhouse to the wall and that served as Asunción a watch point to control access to the ‘Clos Worships the patron saint of Albaida: the de la Vila’. Virgin of The Remedy. This monumental building began to being constructed in The 13th-century watchtower on Fora-Fora 1592 and it was completed in 1621. It is Avenue is also part of the ancient wall of built on the walls of the old Romanesque Albaida. church of the thirteenth century and is of Gothic style, although the Gate of Valencia or Aljorf reforms after the seventeenth century, With a structure very similar to the gate of caused it to adopt a neoclassical line. the villa that we find in the Mayor Square, If you visit its interior you will discover next to the old building of the town hall works by the neorealist sculptor Galarza, of 1903. It is a half-point arch on its outer the altarpiece of the main altar and the face and another corner on the inner imperial bed of the Mother of God of August face. During the centuries XIV-XV, closed of Pere Foix (XVII century) and various the access to the village from the Raval works of the illustrator José Segrelles that Jussà to avoid possible attacks during the decorate the lunettes, the main altar and night. Using this gate came to Albaida the the chapel of Baptism. travelers who followed the Royal Road of Valencia. Bell-ringers of Albaida Albaida is the only town in the Valencian The peculiar current shape of this arch is Community that, since the thirteenth due to the fact that in 1601 the stirrups century has preserved the Manual Ringing were bitten in order to give access to the of Bells uninterrupted and daily. A tradition carriages of the Marquis. declared Asset of Intangible Cultural Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 28 | 29

The Aljorf and the Church of the Nativity The Quixote, Dante’s divine comedy or The the Tourist Info, the “Nanos y Gegants” Palace of the Milà and Aragó Ancient Moorish farmstead that was rebuilt Thousand and One Nights, are just one example of the town, the mock-up of the Medieval Address: Plaça Major s / n in the seventeenth century. Its church dates of the works illustrated by José Segrelles. This Albaida and a small shop where you can Arrange guided tour in advance at the back to the 18th century and is built on house, designed and built by the same painter in buy products related to the museum and Tourist info 96 239 01 86 - 607 20 19 70 the old mosque. cross floor has three 1943, is currently a house-museum that means the puppets. side chapels. The apse of the presbytery is a wide approach to the art of José Segrelles and Albaida Bell Tower decorated with Old Testament paintings. his great figure. On the first floor are located the most Address: Plaça Pintor Segrelles s / n important traditions of Europe, Asia and Arrange guided tour in advance at the In the Aljorf there is also the hermitage Thus, throughout the house and thanks to Africa. The eastern part is represented by Tourist info 96 239 01 86 - 607 20 19 70 of the Roser of the thirteenth century, the more than 150 original works of the puppets from Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, the bassa de l’Horta of Islamic origin, the painter that houses in his rooms, you will China, etc. These are ancient manifestations fountain and the washing place and the discover the way of life and the way of being in the culture of these countries and many interesting set that form the bridge of the of the painter José Segrelles (1885-1969). of them are on the UNESCO Intangible Molí de la Creu and the iron bridge of the You will approach his universe: how he Heritage of Humanity list. railway. painted and illustrated, what he did every day, what he read, what music listened… On the second floor, there is a room Fountains of the neighborhood of Saint dedicated to Valencian and Spanish Antonio and León Address: Plaça Pintor Segrelles, 13 companies. “La Tradición Popular” Located next to the roundabout of Tel. 96 239 01 88 stands out, represented by glove puppets Albaida and very close to the convent of Opened from Tuesdays to Sundays from linked to the traveling theaters that were the Capuchin parents and the municipal 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. represented with comic pieces in the market. These are two adjoining fountains, Mondays and festive days closed squares and streets of the villages. The but totally different. The first, from 1789, second room is dedicated to film and is presided over by intertwined fish and is Permanent Exhibition of Nativity scenes television, here, the nods of The News of the Baroque in style. The second, from 1884, and Dioramas Wink of Canal+ and Cuorelandia of Canal has a bronze lion and is eclectic in style. Address: Plaça Pintor Segrelles, 19 9, the characters of Gomaespuma, the Both have 12 pipes and form a covered Tel.: 96 239 01 86 - 607 20 19 70 Caragolímpicos of clay or the automatons laundry room. Mondays and festive days closed of the early twentieth century of Francisco Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 Sanz. MUSEUMS a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. José Segrelles House Museum Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Address: Plaça Pintor Segrelles, 19 The museum holds the most important Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to Tel.: 96 239 01 86 - 607 20 19 70 anthological collection of this universally 2:00 p.m. Mondays and festive days closed recognized painter and illustrator. From Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 its beginnings with family portraits to International Museum of Puppets a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. his postustum oil “El Pentecostés”, a d’Albaida (MITA) Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. masterpiece of his mystical themes. In the Installed in the Tower of the West of Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to museum stands out the library, with more the Palace of the Mila and Aragó, it was 2:00 p.m. than 10,000 volumes, and the painter’s inaugurated in 1997 and houses a complete study. collection of puppets from all continents. It is divided into three floors, where you can find: On the ground floor the reception, Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 30 | 31

FESTIVITIES TELEPHONES OF INTEREST ALFARRASÍ January: festivities of the neighborhood of Town Hall: 96 290 09 60 St. Antonio Abad Mayoralty: 96 290 09 60 February: Carnival Youth Information Center: May: festivities of the Holy Cross and 96 290 09 60 pilgrimage to the Covalta Tourist Info: 96 239 01 86 - 607 20 19 70 Population: 1.247 hab. June: festivities of Corpus Christi (as Holy Local police: 96 290 13 56 Municipal area: 6,4 km2 Week falls) 629 70 71 86 (mòbil 24h) Altitude: 217 m. ALFARRASÍ July 25: St. Jaume of Albaida fair Civil Guard: 96 290 14 66 Between the 3 and 6 of August: festivities Emergency center: 112 Demonym: alfarrasiner, alfarrasinera of San Domingo de Guzmán in the Aljorf Health center “Dr. Estanya”: Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 71 25 neighborhood. 962919510 Web: www.alfarrasi.es From September 29 to October 11: patron Local Cruz Roja institution: 96 290 05 75 E-mail: [email protected] saint festivities dedicated to Our Lady of AFMAVA: 96 239 81 93 The Remedy. The 7th is the Feast of Our Taxi Mensalcón: 96 290 08 08 Lady of Remedy, and from the 8th to the Retiree’s Home: 96 290 00 29 11th the Moors and Christians Festivities House museum of the Painter Segrelles: MONUMENTS plinth,topped, where the bells are located. are celebrated, with the entrance and the 96 239 01 88 Church of St. Jerónimo Embassies. Our parish Mrs. of the Assumption: Dates back of the eighteenth century Hermitage of the Christ of Agony October 12: Feast of the Pilar neighborhood. 96 290 15 65 and shows a nave covered by vault of Simple and austere construction of the year half barrel, with lunettes and supported 1739. It is characterized by its hexagonal EXCURSIONS between buttresses. Inside stands the main plant, with dome and four chapels. It is • The House el Clau altar, the paintings of Joaquín Oliet and accessed by an ordeal of cypresses whose • La Covalta the shells found by San Gregorio Magno, sheds were built in 1961, although the • Watermills: mill of les Palanques, Baix mill San Agustín, San Ambrosio and San entire environment was rehabilitated in or Nou mill, Dalt mill & Penalba mill. Jerónimo. The door is added and framed by 2001. From the hermitage you can observe • Trough our mountains: the high of the ashlars. Outside stands out its bell tower beautiful views of the mountains that Cross, the Grossa Mountain range, the high of quadrangular plant, of four bodies, surround the municipality. of the Benicadell built with masonry brick and stone • ‘Acequia del Puerto’ route • Route of Jaume I in the Vall d’Albaida • The Borgia route

LOCAL PRODUCTS • Textiles for home • Preparation of handcrafted wax • Walnuts and yolks to the fondan Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 32 | 33

Place of La Venta and historic center EXCURSIONS ATZENETA D’ALBAIDA One kilometer from the municipality flows • Hermitage of Cristo de la Agonía y la the Albaida River, is watered succinctly by Venda the River Clariano, although with less flow • Cid’s pathway - Stage 56: Xàtiva - than in previous years; years in which the Ontinyent place of “La Venta”, now perfectly restored • Route of the 4 towns of the River Population: 1.175 hab. to be visited, attended a continuous (Alfarrasí, Benissuera, Sempere i Municipal area: 6,10 km2 assumption of women who would wash Guadasséquies) Altitude: 450 m. their clothes outdoors. Form part of itinerary no. 2 of the routes of ADZENETA the Vall d’Albaida. Demonym: atzenetí, atzenetina D’ALBAIDA FESTIVITIES Town Hall Phone no.: 96 235 91 61 January: St. Antonio Abad LOCAL PRODUCTS Web: www.atzenetadalbaida.com Sunday of Easter: Feast of “l’Angelet de la • Virgin olive oil E-mail: [email protected] Corda” • Agricultural products June: Corpus Christi Third weekend of August (approx.): patron TELEPHONES OF INTEREST saint festivities and Moors and Christians in Alfarrasí Town Hall: 96 229 21 75 - MONUMENTS the area, the source should already exist in honor of San Roc, the Holy Cross and the 618 194 418 The Fountain of the “Twenty-one Jets” Moorish times, but it was the inhabitants Christ of Agony Medical Center: 96 224 99 82 The fountain of the “Twenty-one Jets” of the village of the seventeenth century November 22: Santa Cecilia Chemist’s: 96 229 72 23 is preserved from monumental public who beautified it to be the admiration of Local Police: 676 471 471 sources, but without flowing drinking water. passers-by of the royal road at that time. The fountain consists of twenty bronze Next to the fountain there is also a watering jets and a main one that comes out of the hole that was formerly used to feed the mouth of a schematic lion face, carved in animals. Atzeneta stone and set to the center of the fountain wall. The wall is presided over by a devotional mosaic of tiles dedicated to St. Antonio Abad. According to studies in Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 34 | 35

Old Municipal Schools; Current plenary “Agua del Puerto” Ditch the Font Freda recreational area. It has FESTIVITIES hall (XX century) It is the mother ditch or main canal of an benches, tables and a fountain. January: St. Antonio Abad The work, which dates from 1927 to 1928, irrigation system of the times of Al-Andalus September: Moors and Christians festivities was carried out under the project and (s. IX, possibly before 929), which through Park October 9 (second weekend of September) and patron supervision of the school architect of the its 4,000 m in length provided water to The park is a recreational area located in saint feasts dedicated to the Christ of province, Josep Corte Botín. It was a double the orchards of Atzeneta, Albaida and El a privileged environment at the foot of the the Faith, the Virgen del Rosario and San and symmetrical classroom, with separate Palomar. Along its layout, under Atzeneta, ‘Serreta dels Pins’. It is the meeting point Roque (third weekend of September). classrooms and services, for boys and girls. some mills lined up. It has one followed for young and old, who come there every The plant is rectangular and the decoration by public washers and open door trunks day to play, chat or just have a good time. EXCURSIONS austere, with masonry walls and local at the back of the houses, which allow The park also hosts much of the festive, PR-CV 222. Benicadell’s top pathway and limestone for the plinths, the sides and washing and scrubbing without leaving the cultural and leisure celebrations that take snow cave. window lintels. The type of four-sided roof, house. The walk of the ditch runs between place in the town. It has play furniture PR-CV 222: Benicadell’s top pathway (11’1 finished in a powerful overhang, and the orchards and gardens, houses of the for the little ones, a sports park for older km 4h). symmetrical composition of the whole, give bourgeoisie of the 1900s, and the naves of people, a large esplanade with goalposts, a Other excursions: a unique and representative appearance to the old foundry of the Roses family. zip line and various fountains. • The Water route: the birth of the irrigation the building. Recently the building has been channel of the Port rehabilitated to transform it into a plenary Hermitage of the Holy Christ of Faith (XIX MUSEUMS • The walking tour of the channel of the room that still retains the original roof, century) Atzeneta Museum of Crafts: Port made of wooden beams and metallic frame. In 1708 mosén Josep Gironés promoted Stone, bells, esparto grass • Atzeneta Ravine. Environmental and the construction of an ordeal with a chapel Verge dels Desemparats Street, 46-48 scenic route of the riverbank area of the Parish church of St. Juan Bautista (XVIII dedicated to the Most Holy Christ, which Tel. 96 235 91 61 (arrange visit) Atzeneta ravine century) was venerated before in the church. On • SL-CV 118, Route of the castle and other The church was built between 1719 and May 5, 1709, the first Mass was celebrated It is a museum collection dedicated to jewels of the Rural Heritage of El Palomar 1728 to replace an old Moorish church and the hermitage, the image of christ the handicrafts of the municipality, from • “Alt del Pare Sant” of the sixteenth century, located on the and the wooden crosses of the ordeal were the Esparto documented already in the • In the “Serreta dels Pins & de la Creu”. Street of the Almas, on the site of the old blessed. Faced with the increase of devotion Muslim era, through the work of the stone • In the “Mirambé” mosque. In 1721 the image of the Blessed to christ, in 1722, the same chaplain (seventeenth century), and ending with the • At the fountains: Freda, de l’Arrier, de Sacrament and other ancient images, gave away a new image, the present one, lineage of the Roses bell ringers and their l’Anoueret, del Meler i de l’Ordenari such as the San Juan Bautista (1652), or a replacing the old one. In the years 1756- foundry of bronzes, world-famous. Among • In the corral of Diego and Penalba. San Roque (XVII century) were moved that 1762 the old hermitage was demolished the exposed pieces stands out part of the Form part of the itinerary no. 4 of the are still preserved. The main altarpiece, and a new plant was built, which would measuring and tuning instrument of bells. routes of the Vall d’Albaida.. Baroque style (1742-1745) was destroyed in result in a third building, the current one, The collection is located in the building 1936 and the current one imitates his style. dating from the years 1883-1890. It is a of the old washing place-abattoir of the LOCAL PRODUCTS The church has a small parish museum. neo-Gothic building, which is mostly in the 1930s, built by the prestigious Valencian • Stone carvings It is a building of a single central nave, interior decoration. architect Javier Goerlich Lleó. The recent • Esparto without cruise, with eight chapels between restoration of the washing place allows • Bells buttresses and with rectangular presbytery, La Solana Fountain to circulate over a sheet of glass, forming decorated with numerous baroque motifs It is a forest recreation place that is part a diaphanous space, in which are hold based on stucci, golden rocks, capitals and of the Protected Area of L’Ombria del temporary exhibitions, esparto workshops, entablatures. Benicadell located about 200 meters from etc. the historic center, accessible by car and on foot along the forest track that goes to Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 36 | 37

BÈLGIDA Recently a path has been recovered that FESTIVITIES connects the two fountains, that of Grapat January: St. Antonio Abad with the Baix fountain, becoming a very February: St. Blai, the day of St. Ramón beautiful environment for visitors. Nonat (Sunday before Carnival), and “la Population: 682 hab. Setmana de l’Enfarinà” (between this day “Baix” Fountain and the Carnival day), Carnival Saturday Municipal area: 17,39 km2 Birth is located 6.38 m above the creek bed. and that same weekend is celebrated the Altitude: 264 m. BÈLGIDA A narrow dry stone gallery leads its waters Dansà. Demonym: belgidà, belgidana to the outside, pouring down two bronze From 8 to 13 August: patron saint Town Hall Phone no.: 96 290 10 74 pipes. To the left of the fountain, there’s festivities to San Lorenzo, The Holy Trinity Web: www.belgida.es the washing place. This fountain has been and the Ecce Homo. recently restored and a recreation area has E-mail: [email protected] been built thus making the whole a very EXCURSIONS cozy place. It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the routes through the “Vall Blanca”. MONUMENTS Park of Enric Valor • Hermitage of San Antonio Abad Old Palace Tower Square of the Constitución Park dedicated to the writer Enric • Grapat Fountain It is located in the street of the Presó Located in the historic center of the Valor. The park has two garden areas, a • Baix Fountain (prison) and although the exact date of municipality. In the square you will find a children’s area and an area adapted for • Freda Fountain construction is unknown, it is believed to be fountain that was built in 1884 as well as the realization of ceremonies, concerts and from the end of the fourteenth century. A the Consistorial House. Inside this building shows. LOCAL PRODUCTS rectangular tower is currently preserved. stands an altarpiece commemorating the • Agricultural products first centenary of the Battle of Raboser. Hermitage of St. Antonio Abad Grapat Fountain The hermitage was built in 1721 and is TELEPHONES OF INTEREST Its waters come from the leaks of the New Church of San Lorenzo Martyr located 300 meters from the municipality. Bèlgida Town Hall: 96 290 10 74 Carrícola orchard. It consists of a masonry The early church already existed in the The festival of San Antonio Abad is break of precise dimensions for the support fourteenth century. Inside stands the chapel celebrated in the hermitage on January 17. of the “Ecce Homo” of the eighteenth of two iron pipes. To the left of the fountain it has been constructed a leisure area. century, with decoration of Espinosa and MUSEUMS Oriente. Archaeological Museum Located in the Torre del Palau, it is dedicated to Don Mariano Jornet Perales. In it you can see pieces found in the municipality during the Eneolithic, Moorish and Iberian Romano periods.

Address: Presó, 1 Street Tlf: 96 290 10 74 (arrange visit by phone from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 38 | 39

BELLÚS by a bell tower of swordsmanship. The The canal interior houses a 1941 wooden sculptural The Canal of the Bellús Fountain is a image of the town’s co-pattern, the Christ Muslim-era hydraulic ensemble (8th-XIII of the Good Death, in whose honor they century), declared Well Of Cultural Interest. celebrate festivities in September, with It is a water conduction made of mud a spectacular and unique procession archdes that for more than a thousand Population: 320 hab. involving rocket shooters. years transported the water for seven kilometers to the city of Xàtiva. Municipal area: 9,5 km2 BELLÚS Feudal tower Altitude: 180 m. The feudal tower, the Palace of the FESTIVITIES Demonym: belluser, bellusera Bellvís or ‘Torre del Moro’ has its origins Second and third weekend of September: Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 31 04 in the slender medieval tower built in patron saint festivities to St. Ana and the Web: www.bellus.es Muslim tapestry in the 14th century. Built Christ of Good Death, as well as to the E-mail: [email protected] by the Lúria, first lords of Bellús, their Saints of the Stone, Abdón and Senén. successors the Bellvís of Bélgida added July 26: Saint Ana’s feast. new constructions in the medieval tower, until turning the whole into a palace-house EXCURSIONS MONUMENTS vault, with chapels between the buttresses in the XVI-XVIII centuries. As a curiosity, It is part of itinerary no. 2 of the routes Parish Church of Santa Ana decorated in Tuscan style, and high chorus the building was personally visited by King through the Vall d’Albaida The parish church of Santa Ana presides at his feet. The main altar is presided over Felipe II of (I of Valencia), on one of • Local pathway from Bellús to l’Estret de over the square of the church of the by a baroque altarpiece with the image of his trips, during which he stayed to eat les Aigües municipality. The building was built in the titular Santa Ana. with all the court that accompanied it. It • The Petxina cave and the Black Cave, the eighteenth century, expanded its is currently restored and visitable. From declared a World Heritage Site headboard in the eighteenth century, and Hermitage of the Christ of the Good Death its terrace you can admire magnificent • Recreation area of the old spa of Bellús finally renovated in the current style in The hermitage of Christ of the Good Death perspectives of the Vall d’Albaida and the 1940. On the side of the gospel rises the was built in 1935 on the old building of the site of the Estret de les Aigües. LOCAL PRODUCTS bell tower of three bodies and finish. If late eighteenth century. The facade stands • Cold meat you access the interior you will discover a out for its neo-Gothic style, with door and Large Cave of La Petxina • Seasonal agricultural products unique nave covered with lowered barrel window of half point aligned, and crowned The large cave of La Petxina is a prehistoric coat declared World Heritage by Unesco. The large cave and the small one of La Petxina, together with the Black Cova of Xàtiva, gave shelter to the first Neanderthals. Proof of this are the remains found and the cave paintings that are preserved. The two coats of Bellús are protected and converted into museums that you can enjoy with organized tours. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 40 | 41

BENIATJAR when the castles of the Vall d’Albaida Moors Bridge exercised their dominance over different Unique area and recreational area where farmhouses; to that of Carbonera belonged there is an old small bridge that served to Bèlgida, Otos, Beniatjar, El Ràfol de Salem wade through the ravine. or Salem, among others. According to Abel Soler, the Mozarabic place-name refers Nevera Spectacular snow pit located in the heart Population: 224 hab. to the exploitation of forest resources (coal production). In 1287 it was awarded, of the Benicadell mountain range, near the Municipal area: 11,53 km2 together with that of Rugat, to Bernat de summit.. Altitude: 417 m. BENIATJAR Bellvís (sg. Escolano). As early as 1339, Demonym: beniatgí, beniatgina the castle was destroyed. (Source of Caixa FESTIVITIES Town Hall Phone no.: 96 235 81 50 Ontinyent). Week before Easter (Pain Week): Septenary to Our Lady de los Dolores, with a wealth of Web: www.beniatjar.es singing and liturgical, which has been held Route of the Cid and the Castle of E-mail: [email protected] untimely at least since 1688. Carbonera Saturday closer to March 25: feast in honor Spectacular route of extreme beauty of Our Lady de la Encarnación, patron and uniqueness that passes through the MONUMENTS Carbonera Castle saint of the municipality with popular shadow of the Benicadell (emblematic Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation It is an ancient Andalusian castle located “cassoletes” (a typical dish) on the street. mountain called “Peña Cadiella” in the Dates back from the seventeenth century, on a rocky hill on the northern slope of Holy Tuesday: the Salpassà “Cantar del Mio Cid”). Carbonera Castle was specifically from 1689, although since 2005 the Benicadell mountain range, of which Second day of Easter: Collection of oil for an Arab fortress that was conquered and it has lived a process of integral restoration only conserves remains of the walls, some Mr. Priest. recaptured by Rodrigo Días de Vivar from that has allowed to recover structural and tower that served as a buttress and the Last week of August: Patron Saint Feasts where it guarded and controlled the four ornamental elements that had been lost cistern. Of all these, the best preserved in honor to San Roque, Stm. Christ of the cardinal points. over time. The bell tower has two bodies walls are on the north face. It is built with Consuelo, the Assumption and the Divine with a finish. limestone, according to the technique of Aurora. Calvario ‘Puente de la Purísima’: Saint Cecilia Feast, masonry lacked, looking for the flat face It is located in the highest part of the celebrated by the Musical Society and even slightly worked. It had a great village and offers spectacular views of December 25: Aguinaldo’s Feast importance in the thirteenth century, the Vall d’Albaida. It is located on the platform where an old watchtower (the EXCURSIONS Castellet) was located, of which today only It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the routes traces remain on the ground. The 19th through the Vall d’Albaida. century Calvary stations were destroyed • Les Fontetes in 1936, and later reclaimed in 1989, in • Moors Bridge the tricentenary of the construction of the church building. In it was a huge pine tree LOCAL PRODUCTS that was the emblem of the municipality on • Olive Oil of high quality its shield, and was felled after the Civil War. Today it is found, already grown a specimen TELEPHONES OF INTEREST of the same species. Town Hall: 96 235 81 50

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BENICOLET If you visit Benicolet during the feast of the ‘Scalding of the raisin’, you will live two intense days where everyone goes out Population: 582 hab. BENICOLET on the street to enjoy music, workshops, Municipal area: 11,3 km2 gastronomy, expert talks in riuraus and as Altitude: 241 m. not, of the scald. Demonym: benicoletà, benicoletana Town Hall Phone no.: 96 283 01 20 FESTIVITIES Web: www.benicolet.es January: St. Antonio Abad E-mail: [email protected] Thursday before Ash Wednesday: ‘Cassoles’ (typical dish: rice with crust) in the Font Vella (Old Fountain) MONUMENTS mountains. Place where formerly the women of the Historic Center June: St. Juan Bautista village did the laundry and collected water Characteristic of a humble and labrador First weekend of August: patron saint for domestic use. It is currently restored town, we can find the church of San Juan festivities dedicated to the Immaculate, the and enabled with tables and burners to Bautista, the En Medio Street, used for Divine Aurora and the Christ of faith with make barbecues or with firewood. Valencian ball competitions in the brush parades of Moors and Christians modality or the monument in memory of Second weekend of September: feast of the Riuraus the Poassa, an old community watering Scalding of the raisin Recently Benicolet has recovered traditions hole for cattle. October 1: Feast of the Virgin of the Rosary from its ancestors that give meaning to what it is today. This is the case of the Church of San Juan Bautista EXCURSIONS “l’Escaldà de la Pansa” (Scalding of the Dates of the seventeenth century and has • Font Vella recreational area raisin) Feast. A tradition that goes back to a single nave with two chapels between the • Equestrian route, the Mas of Xetà the beginning of the nineteenth century as buttresses. Highlights include the classic • Route of the Fountains and the Lime Kilns a procedure by which raisins are made of decoration of the pilasters and the bell It is part of the itinerary number. 3 of the the muscat grape, in the lower part of the tower of two bodies and square floor plan. Vall d’Albaida routes. Benicolet mountain range you will find a sample of the ancient riuraus. LOCAL PRODUCTS • Agricultural products Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 44 | 45

BENIGÀNIM Church of the Purísima and the Blessed Hermitage of Grace Inés In the natural environment of the convent The convent church of the Augustinians, of the Trinity, you will find this hermitage, was originally built in 1611 with the the oldest of those existing in Benigànim inauguration of the monastery. The current and popularly known as the Round temple was built thanks to the fact that hermitage. Of Renaissance style, it was built Population: 6.220 hab. the beatification procedures were on the in 1528, on the site where an image of the Municipal area: 33,44 km2 BENIGÀNIM right track and was an important point Virgin of Grace was found, and has been Altitude: 150 m. of pilgrimage, so a temple had to be recently restored. Demonym: beniganí, beniganina made capable of housing more devotees. Highlights include the chapel of the Blessed Morera Square Town Hall Phone no.: 96 292 00 02 Inés built in carrara and macael marbles to It is located in the oldest district of Web: www.beniganim.es guard the tomb of golden bronze and glass Benigànim, the Isleta District, which has E-mail: [email protected] where the remains of the Blessed rest. narrow and irregular streets, and dating back to the twelfth century when the wazir MONUMENTS The church of Ortissa Abu-Mohamet-Ben-Gani received this Church of Christ Parish Church of San Miguel It is entirely of neo-Gothic art, it does not territory and founded the new village, which It is the oldest in the region and is built In Renaissance style, it was built stand out for its great proportions, but for after the conquest passed into Christian on foundations of the Mosque of the Arab between 1602 and 1637 coinciding with the beauty of its decoration. It is covered hands. The Morera Square was the main Benigànim. In it we find a wide variety of the emancipation of Xàtiva and the by cross vaults and oval arches, built in square of the town, social center, place of artistic styles: Romanesque Tower, coming appointment of Villa-. It was the symbol white stone, and as is common in its style meetings and playful celebrations. In the from the original church of this art, which of the thought, spirit and progress of contains numerous windows. center there is a mulberry tree as a symbol was demolished and replaced by the Gothic the Benigànim of that time reflecting the Its construction was initiated at the will of of economic progress, dedicated to silk. vault of 1391 and Baroque-style cruise, idealism of the local people. It is worth Ms. Leonor Ortiz and later inaugurated in built during the first half of the eighteenth noting the bell tower, also Renaissance, 1912. It closed for worship in the late 1950s Mayor Square century where the magnificence of frescoes octagonal base and 45 meters high. and early 1960s. Built in the seventeenth century to be stands out, as well as pottery. the nerve center of the Renaissance Sundial Benigànim, it is decorated with a fountain Located on l’Ortissa Avenue, this 6 m of the nineteenth century and presided diameter digital-equatorial watch built over by the Town Hall, a stone house of the in stainless steel and corten steel, has a seventeenth century, whose interior has concrete platform on which allegorical been subsequently renovated, which shows elements to local history and the four winds at the entrance door the shield of the are arranged. It is the work of Joan Olivares village, sculpted in stone. And the Ribelles in collaboration with Rafael Amorós and House, now in the possession of the Town incorporates a calendar that marks the Hall, on whose facade you can see that it and equinoxes, determined by two was possibly from some important noble unique points located on the axis of the family of the town, built in the seventeenth central element. century. It currently houses an ethnological museum and exhibition hall. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 46 | 47

FESTIVITIES LOCAL PRODUCTS BENISSODA January 21: Feast of Blessed Inés • “Arrop and talladetes” Second Sunday in May: Feast of the Virgen • Espadrilles de los Desamparados, with the “Plantà del • Honey Xop” (the poplar plant) • Chocolate August 1: Convent fair Population: 418 hab. First weekend of August: feast of the Snow TELEPHONES OF INTEREST Municipal are: 4,32 km2 Virgin Benigànim youth center: 96 221 59 99 Altitude: 319 m. Last weekend of August: festivities in honor Demonym: benissodà, benissodana BENISSODA to the Divine Aurora, the Christ of the Blood Town Hall Phone no.: 96 239 08 05 and St. Miguel, with Moors and Christians Web: www.benissoda.es Festivities E-mail: [email protected] EXCURSIONS It is part of itinerary no. 3 of the routes through the Vall d’Albaida. • Hermitage of Our Lady of La Solana MONUMENTS built at the end of the nineteenth century, • Parks of l’Ortissa, La Mercè and the Church of the Nativity has three bodies with trunks and small Blessed Inés The parish church of the Nativity, dating finishes, is Mannerist style and is unique • La Penya Roja (The Red Rock) from the seventeenth century, occupies the in the Vall d’Albaida. The exterior is rather • El Portixol site of the ancient Islamic oratory, in total polished, although in the corners it retains there are about 235 m2. The nave of the the original stone. temple is divided into five sections by lowcut sash arches that gravitate on City Hall pilasters of composite order. The arc-to-arc Building rehabilitated in February 2007, turns are very low, half a barrel. On the side formerly the oven of the Señoría, later built of your feet, there is a heart with a wooden the Town Hall, it was also used as town jail. railing, over the main access. The bell tower Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 48 | 49

Francisco Ferri Square MUSEUMS BENISSUERA In this square you can see some of the Ethnological museum of the Vall d’Albaida machines that were in the mill for the region production of oil. This Regional Museum of Ethnology was born as a private initiative by Francisco Population: 190 hab. Natural setting and washing place of Abajo Ferri Martínez and other neighbors of the Municipal area: 2,1 km2 The natural setting of the Pelut River, which town in 1988. It is an exhibition of tools Altitude: 200 m. offers a panoramic view of the old town, and work utensils, which was part of a Demonym: benissuerà, benissuerana BENISSUERA is a set of new-floor fountains and laundry typical house of a labrador. The collection is Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 30 31 rooms with gabled roofs. The fountain, with divided into sections and shows everything Fax: 96 229 32 37 two pipes arranged on a stone and brick from more everyday objects of houses to all wall, is separated from the washing place. those objects related to the farmer’s work. Web: www.benisuera.es It has two rectangular water storage tanks E-mail: [email protected] with stones to wash on one side and on the FESTIVITIES other side of each, located perpendicular to January: St. Antonio Abad the wall of the bottom of the washing place. From August 15: patron saint festivities MONUMENTS Palace of the Bellvís of Benissuera The facade has two half-point arches. in honor of the Virgen del Rosario, St. Church of St. José Known as the Viscounts of San Germán, the Domingo and Santa Bárbara Its construction dates from the second half complex occupies a plot of 4,897 m2. Its Sundial and Park of Las Moreras of the eighteenth century. The building date is not known for certain, but probably It consists of three overlapping metal cubes EXCURSIONS is structured in a single nave of three outside the last quarter of the 16th century. made of steel and located on a concrete It is part of itinerary no. 5 of the routes sections, covered with cannon turn and with Architecturally it shows a ground floor and platform with the winds. On the middle through the Vall Blanca. chapels between the buttresses. It is a work two upper floors, flanked by two towers. and on two of their faces are the hourly • The sand cave of rural architecture, unean academic, of The current aspect is that of a squareplan plans and astrological months. The watch • The Baix’s fountain great formal and decorative simplicity. The building with a fortress appearance. works with two gnomes, one for morning • The Patge’s fountain church of San José de Benissuera belonged The roof is made of Arab sloping tile, the hours and one for evenings, although at • Buenos Aires to the parish of San Pedro until 1535, when loading walls are masonry of ashlars. the near hours of noon the two gnomes • La it was erected as an independent parish. work, casting on different faces identical • El Pinaret shadows and the same time. Both gnomes are the two lower vertices of the upper LOCAL PRODUCTS cube of the face facing south. This watch, • Agricultural products whose structure was designed by the artists Joan Olivares and Rafael Amorós, was awarded the 3rd prize at the 6th Edition of the Congress of Gnomonics held in Italy in 1999. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 50 | 51

On the facade stands the main door, with EXCURSIONS BOCAIRENT a half-point arch with ashlars, the bars • Route of the four river towns (with and the viewpoint; at the top of the facade Alfarrasí, Sempere and Guadasséquies) stands the cornice worked in wood. It has • Route around the reservoir of Bellús a large and emblematic orchard at the • The Cid’s pathway – Stage 56: Xàtiva and back, which allows you to enjoy views of Ontinyent Population: 4.195 hab. the Benicadell, although it can only be seen It is part of itinerary no. 2 of the Vall Municipal area: 97,34 km2 from the outside, since the palace is in a d’Albaida routes Altitude: 680 m. dilapidated state. Demonym: bocairentí, bocairentina LOCAL PRODUCTS BENISSODA El Flautí Park • Agricultural Products Town Hall Phone no.: 96 235 00 14 Dedicated to Rafael Martí Vidal (24-2-1908 Web: www.bocairent.org to 12-9-2000). Where roasters, picnic areas, E-mails: [email protected] play spaces and the viewpoint have been [email protected] built.

FESTIVITIES MONUMENTS They would correspond to a very precise January: St. Antonio Abad Covetes dels Moros moment, probably between the X-XI Second weekend of September: festivities It is a group of artificial caves with centuries. in honor of the Mother of God of the windowshaped holes, located in the middle Miraculous Medal and the Christ of the of a vertical rock wall. It consists of about Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 a.m. to Amparo 50 windows that give access to many other 2:00 p.m. cameras. The windows are arranged on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: from 3-4 levels, but do not form regular floors. 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. Interpretations of its use have been very to 6:00 p.m. (in summer from 4:30 to 7:00 diverse: from burial cameras to barns or p.m.). 30 minutes before closing you can Visigothic cenobios. access the enclosure.

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Colomer cave Medieval quarter of the Holy Christ of the sixteenth century; a tour of the history of one of the oldest Interpretation center of les Covetes dels Declared a historical-artistic set, has the hermitage of St. James, of the fifteenth festivals of Moors and Christians, with Moros and a space of information and a spectacular stroke of streets in the century; the hermitage of San Antonio de graphic illustrations and teaching material. dissemination on the set of caves windows purest Arab style. On a walk through its Padua, of the eighteenth century and the Hours: Sunday and holidays from 12:00 to of the head of the River Clariano. The space steep and quiet streets, you will discover hermitage of San Antonio Abad, built by the 2:00 p.m. Tel. 96 290 50 62 is accessible to all audiences and by it you corners of great beauty, fountains, squares sixteenth century. will reach the ‘Pouet de San Vicente’. and hermitages; There are two routes Parish museum in the Church of the Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10:30 a.m. signposted around the perimeter: magic MUSEUMS Assumption to 11:45 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and public route in green and route of ‘les covetes’ in Museum of crafts and customs of The Parish Museum is one of the best holidays 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. red. Bocairent sacred collections of the Valencian It houses inside an ethnographic collection Community, with works by Juan de Juanes, Bullring Rock monastery structured in three fundamental sections: Juaquin Sorolla, el Maestro de Borbotò, Unique in its kind for being fully excavated From the mid-XVI century, it is an old textile (with manual looms, machinery and Cristòfol Llorenç o Blai Silvestre, among in the rock, from the stands to the taunts, underground convent of cloistered nuns documentation), the countryside and the others. A real pleasure for art lovers where chiqueros and corral for livestock. Dating that was excavated in the rock and occupies mountain (space dedicated to the trades you will find samples of goldsmithing, back to 1843, it makes it the oldest in the an area of 48 m2 to which two convents and customs of agriculture, farmhouses), textiles, ceramics, painting and sculpture. and one of the most of later construction overlap. Inside are and bocairent customs and habits. The This museum has recently been remodeled original in Spain, with a capacity of 3,760 different outbuildings such as the lobby, museum also hosts temporary exhibitions by the Valencian Foundation. municipalities. the chapel with decoration in the ceiling and exhibits of local handicrafts. Hours: Saturday from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 4:00 to excavated in the rock, the dining room in Hours: Saturday, Sunday and holidays from Sundays and holidays from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.. (summer from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.). which stands out the large conical fireplace 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tel: 96 235 00 62 Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from of 10 m high and the bedroom. 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Hours: Sundays and public holidays from Antonio Ferri Municipal Museum Vicente Casanova Municipal Archaeological 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Permanent exhibition of the works ceded Museum Church-museum Assumption of Our Lady to Bocairent by the painter Antonio Ferri, It exhibits a large sample of objects dating Parish Hermitages of the medieval neighborhood for his strong personal connection with between the Upper Paleolithic and the Built on the Arab castle of Bekiren, and • Hermitage of San Juan of the thirteenth the municipality. In this space you can find Middle Ages. Most of it corresponds to consecrated in 1516, it was originally century all the records that belong to him, from the Cova de la Sarsa, one of the most made in Gothic style and subsequently • Hermitage of the Mother of God of the monochromatic plots and surfaces of important neolithic sites in the entire adapted to the Baroque tastes of the August, built in 1245 on one of the his abstract works, to the figurative ones Mediterranean. Also on display is a replica time. It contains works by Juan de Juanes, entrances to the villa, highlights the that bring us back to the painting of the of Bocairent’s “Lleó Ibèric” of the fourth Segrelles and Sorolla, a processional Cross portal of the Mother of God of August, quattrocento. and fifth centuries a.C. and the Bautismal Pila (both from the which offered the protection of the virgin Hours: Saturday from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours: Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 15th century), as well as the Pluvial Layer to anyone who entered for it. This was a (in summer from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.) 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tel 96 290 50 62 donated by San Juan de Ribera del s.XVI. custom widespread by Jaume I’s troops and Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. You can also visit the bell tower from which during the reconquest. Tel. 96 290 50 62 Cava de San Blas Snow Museum you will see beautiful images of the Mariola • Hermitage of the Virgin of the Homeless, It was used as a snow deposit, like many Mountain Range. of the eighteenth century. Museum of Moors and Christians others found in the Mariola mountain Hours: Saturdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. • Hermitages on the outskirts of the festivities range. Through an underground gallery Sundays and holidays from 1:00 p.m. to town. The outer chapels are four, and are The museum collects a sample of apparel, excavated in the rock you access the 2:00 p.m. arranged in such a way that they form a party programs, sheet music, etc. from circular enclosure where the ice was stored. cross with the population: the hermitage the nine existing companies, and presents Tourist Guide for the Vall d’Albaida region 54 | 55

Inside are 6 panels illustrated with the LOCAL PRODUCTS history of ice and snow from its beginnings • Manufacture of blankets to the present day. • Industrial plastics • Metal carpentry Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 a.m. to • Yarns 2:00 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays • Cold meats from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. • “Herbero” to 6:00 p.m. (In summer from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) TELEPHONES OF INTEREST Tel. 96 290 50 62 • Bocairent Town Hall: 96 235 00 14 • Tourist info Bocairent: 96 290 50 62 FESTIVITIES • Local police: 96 235 00 10 January: St. Antonio Abad • La Sària Tourism: 635 12 00 29 First weekend of February: festivities to • Eurotaxi: 667 83 95 26 San Blas with entrance and parade of • Tourist Interpretation Center: 661 35 96 88 Moors and Christians. The first Saturday of • Tot Globo: 629 61 18 89 the month the Entrance is celebrated. • Ragala’t: 96 235 11 72 At the beginning of May: Pilgrimage to San • Mercacentro: 96 235 01 09 Jaime • Oriz: 96 235 00 27 From 23 to 28 August: summer festivities in honor to San Agustín with popular LINKS OF INTEREST dances in the Town Hall Square, parade and www.bocairent.org procession. www.serramariola.org Throughout the year: feasts of neighborhoods and hermitages.

EXCURSIONS It is part of itinerary no. 6 of the routes through the Vall d’Albaida. • Magic Route • Routes through the Medieval quarter • Route of the hermitages • ‘La Font de Mariola’ recreation area and camping area • Hot air balloon flights PR-122, GR-7. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 56 | 57

BUFALI 7.30 m deep from the surface level to the current bottom

FESTIVITIES January: St. Antonio Abad Population: 179 hab. From August 15 to 20: patron saint BUFALI Municipal area: 3,26 km2 festivities in honor to the Virgin of Loreto Altitude: 239 m. and the Christ of Poverty Demonym: bufalità, bufalitana Town Hall Phone no.: 96 239 03 88 EXCURSIONS Web: www.bufali.es • Source of the River and the Lloma Solaneta’s snow cave E-mail: [email protected] • The Cid’s pathway - Stage 56: Xàtiva - [email protected] Ontinyent • Jaume I route in the Vall d’Albaida • Route of the farmhouses • Militia d’al-jünd road between Bufali and MONUMENTS of the Epistle. At the time of Patriarch El Palomar. Parish church of our Lady of Loreto Ribera, the village of Bufali had 50 new It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the Vall Originally building of the eighteenth Christian houses and the parish depended d’Albaida routes century and completely renovated the year on Montaverner. In 1574 it became an 1887 in the neoclassical style that now independent parish, on the advocation of LOCAL PRODUCTS shows. It features a single barrel turn deck the current holder of Our Lady of Loreto. • Agricultural products and buttresses, with a wide crossover with edge turn. The facade of the nave’s feet The Lloma Solaneta’s snow cave has as its sole decorative concession the Circular plant tank, 6.50 m in diameter, armored door closed with stone hulls. The located on the ridge of the hill. Linked to bell tower is divided into three bodies and the slope on all sides, without the need for rises at the foot of the nave in the band a platform or slope of any kind. The well is Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 58 | 59

CARRÍCOLA The ascent to the ordeal, shaded by cypress style, presided over by the image of St. trees, is formed by the set of fourteen sheds Michael the Archangel, patron saint of the or chapels that represent the passion with carricolines and holder of the church. It is Valencian tiles. The hermitage is a small a Baroque-style structure of polychrome Population: 90 hab. construction with a simple structure made wood from the late eighteenth century. of mazonería and roof deck on two sides Municipal area: 4,6 km2 of Arab tile. The interior opens a niche The washing place Altitude: 425 m. CARRÍCOLA where the image of the Christ of Calvary is The water came from the fountain of the Demonym: carricolí, carricolina located, a sculpture of polychrome wood, Square, walking along The Street of the Bot. Town Hall Phone no.: 96 235 65 85 possibly from the nineteenth century, The ditch passed through the old mosque in Web: www.carricola.es depicting Jesus Christ crucified. time of Islam to practice ablutions, heading E-mail: [email protected] towards the washing place, located in the The Square lower part of the village. The new building In the square, central space by excellence dates from 1955, built in stone with gabled of the community life of the neighbors roof, consists of two rafts one for clothes of Carrícola, we find the model of and the other for scrubbing. Neither the predominant houses dating from the arrival of drinking water, nor the washing MONUMENTS James I in the form of a feudal lordship. seventeenth century, and currently have machines, have caused it to stop using. Carrícola castle Carrícola Castle passed over the centuries been protected. It is a house linked to rural The water continues towards the main raft, A documentary reference in 1259 suggests by different owners and in 1296 the manor life, with its stockyard in the back, one or almost square and about 150 m3 capacity, that the tower was built by the Muslim of Carrícola was integrated into the barony two floors and chamber. Its facades have where the irrigation of the carrícola orchard inhabitants of Carrícola and Muntis with of Albaida. Later, Cardinal Joan de Milà i balconies with iron railings and natural begins, with an organized batch of 18 days, Hispanic-Muslim techniques of tapestry Aragó would move to the new palace in the stone supports and in some of them we at a rate of 2 hours per water. boxing, but already with the constructive lower part of the village. find devotional ceramic ceilings. The most pattern typical of a feudal fortress, with important building is the Town Hall, located Gatell’s arcade and At’s ravine its courtyard and the tower of homage. Hermitage of Cristo del Calvario in the old House of Honor. On its facade we Three arcades stand out in our hydraulic The initiative was from the Catalan knight The hermitage of Cristo del Calvario is find the Fardatxo Fountain, an underground heritage, to expand the orchard land on the Ramón de Timor, who received these located at the foot of Carrícola castle natural birth that the Muslims drove other side of the ravines of At and the Arcá. Moorish places from the hands of the king presiding over the upper part of the town. through an alcabor. The three buildings are made in tapiases, with the ditch cashier made of solid brick, Parish Church of San Miguel Arcángel the Arcada del Gatell located next to the Ancient mosque converted into a Christian Gatell Fountain and raft is the smallest of church and consecrated to St. Michael the three. The arch of the ravine of At, the the Archangel in 1572. The current floor longest, is structured in two lowered arches consists of a central nave covered with a of different size. It is first documented in barrel vault, structured in four sections, 1348 and is the most reformed by the with the side chapels between the destructive action of the floods and water buttresses. At the foot of the building, we fights of our ancestors. The arch of the find a high choir, and next to the epistle ravine of At and the Gatell ravine supplied rises the bell tower of two bodies. On the drinking water to The Sea. facade we find the access with a nice door. The arch of the ravine of At, the longest, Inside stands the main altar, in neoclassical is structured in two lowered arches of Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 60 | 61 different size. It is first documented in 1348 represented by traditional elements such as CASTELLÓ and is the most reformed by the destructive ice wells, lime kilns and traditional crops. action of the floods and water fights of our DE RUGAT ancestors. The arch of the ravine of At and MUSEUMS the Gatell ravine supplied drinking water to Biodivers Carrícola The Sea. Sculptural route in the environmental Population: 2.275 hab. spaces of the Carrícola castle ravine and Municipal area: 19,1 km2 Arcade of the arcade’s ravine the route of the Islamic arcades. Altitude: 320 m. CASTELLÓ The water was distributed from the large Tel. 619 84 39 88 DE RUGAT Demonym: castellonenc, castellonenca raft by two mother ditches. The plug on the right provided water to the ditch of the FESTIVITIES Town Hall Phone no.: 96 288 30 10 road of Otos, to the Bottom. The stopper January: St. Antonio Abad Web: www.castelloderugat.es on the left provided water to the arcade May 8: Appearance of San Miguel E-mail: [email protected] ditch, up to the arch’s slide. This last Last weekend of September: patron saint [email protected] conduit collected the excess water from festivities to San Miguel, the Christ of the Fardatxo and the leftovers from the Calvary and the Saints of the Stone source of the Arcade, passing the resulting MONUMENTS area of Castellón populated with Arabs. In cabal to the other side of the ravine of EXCURSIONS Historical centre and Town Hall 1257 Al-Azraq seized the castle of Rugat Atzeneta, by means of an aqueduct. The • A walk through the Castle’s ravine Castelló de Rugat was a populous Muslim and then offered to make a deal with Andalusian arcade, is 10.27 m long by 14.30 • The ways of Water: set of Islamic arcades farmhouse, located on the slope of a the king, but in reality it was an ambush. m of elevation, and its factory is the work in the Huerta Vieja (old orchard) hill presided over by a castle. It had an Jaume I launched an offensive against the of Vila, with solid brick cashier. It was the • Biodivers Route: environmental art space important mosque, with school and judicial Moor traitor, and gave land and houses to beginning of the ditch of Baix or the Huerta • The trades of the mountains: walking court, which occupied the site of the brothers Romeu and Joan Martí, custodians Nueva, which after watering the term through the Benicadell current church. Castilian Muslims stood of the castle during the war in 1258. carricolino, reached the raft of the heras of • Environmental interpretation center the out for producing oil and wheat in the Bèlgida. Ametla de palla dryland, although the local specialty was • Melero’s Fountain, Gatell’s Fountain the production and export of clay jugs. With Ametla de Palla It is part of the itinerary no. 4 of the Vall the feudal conquest, Jaume I preserved the Center for education and environmental d’Albaida routes. interpretation located at the foot of the Protected Landscape of the Benicadell’s LOCAL PRODUCTS Umbria. The Ametla de Palla is a place to • Agroecological production acquire knowledge to live in a sustainable • Land and artisan market way. Built in 2005 by CEVA volunteers with the support of the Carrícola City Council. In the Ametla you will appreciate our environment through fauna, flora, organic agriculture and architectural heritage. Other aspects is the recovery of traditional construction techniques, using natural elements such as wood, stone and straw. The trades of the mountains are Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 62 | 63

Parish Church of the Assumption Mosque MUSEUMS • Routes of neighboring towns It began to be built in 1536 on the remains Near the palace is the mosque, which Museum-craft workshop, Recreation area of the hermitage of Santa of the ancient Muslim mosque. Baroque consists of a covered part or prayer rooms Jar pottery museum-workshop Barbara and San Antonio style, the interior is built by three naves and a courtyard, with two access doors. It is rectangular in plan, stands out for • Urban forest park with cannon vault and cruiser. At the The covered room is rectangular with two its construction that has a roof with Refrigerators and corners of Porrixons intersection of the cruiser and the central naves, with six turns. The south-facing alkyl classic vaults of refractory brick and is a It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the Vall nave, there is a dome decorated all of it is indicated by the Mihrab, in the form of diaphanous space with large stained glass d’Albaida routes. with Marian allegories. It has a gyro that a chapel. The interior decoration has been windows. The building consists of museum gives access to a small named later chapel made with glazed brick. At the moment you and workshop, as well as the remains of the LOCAL PRODUCTS of the Aurora. The marble altar is presided will not be able to visit this building as it is archaeological excavations of the Doge’s • Artisanal manufacturing of jugs over by the four tetramorphs represented waiting for its restoration. Palace of the Borgia. by the lion, the eagle, the angel and the TELEPHONES OF INTEREST bull. Currently, it is fully restored. Medieval cistern Clay jug oven Town Hall: 96 288 30 10 The function of the medieval cistern was It dates from the eighteenth century and Local Police: 661 75 59 11 Hermitage of San Antonio Abad, San basically to supply water all the masters was one of the furnaces that were part of Health Center: 96 282 99 70 Antonio de Padua and Santa Bárbara of the pottery taking advantage of the the old pitcher factory. Although it ceased Civil Guard: 96 281 30 03 It was built in the late 17th century on waters of the hill of the hermitage. Circular to function in the first third of the twentieth Emergencies Civil Guard: 062 the remains of the old castle guarded by construction of 1.5 m diameter and century, it cooked pieces of great quality Emergencies: 112 Romero Martí in the moments leading up pinnacle shape, it is built with stone and and measure and is currently the only one Child care telephone number: 300 100 033 to the offensive against Muslims. It was mortar with additions of cements and solid left standing for you to visit. Against Gender Violence: 016 restored between 1985 and 1989 and is brick. Children’s School: 96 281 30 92 located in a privileged place from where FESTIVITIES Virgen del Remedio School: 96 282 66 65 you can enjoy part of the Vall d’Albaida. Public washing place January: San Antonio Abad, with the I.E.S. Manuel Sanchis Guarner: 96 282 94 15 Currently, it is a magnificent recreational Next to the fountain is the washing celebration of ‘El Porrat’ Municipal Library: 96 281 33 23 area and was declared a protected natural place, built in the nineteenth century Sunday following August 15: Major landscape. and remodeled in the first decades of the festivities, with Moors and Christians twentieth century. The raft of the fountain is parade Ducal Palace of the Borgia built in the seventeenth century, to channel Sunday following October 15: Feast of ‘les Built by the Bellvís family in the XIV-XV the various branches of water that came Cassoletes’, coinciding with Santa Teresa centuries and then passed to Francesc from the mountains and the hermitage, From 6 to 8 December: festivities of Our Aguiló de Romeu. Later, in 1449 it passed to a few puddles and a watering hole, and Lady of Remedy (with the commemoration to the Borgia family, specifically Joan de for the irrigation of the large orchard. The of the Miracle), the Christ of Faith and the Borgia, son of the Pope Alexander VI, which current fountain was inaugurated in 1881 Purísima. meant its annexation to the Duchy of although a document from 1574 already Gandía until the end of 1669. The Borgias mentioned it as a major source. EXCURSIONS reformed it to give it a more residential Jaume I route: Moorish path of the Vall character. The remains of the palace and d’Albaida part of the facade have been recently Mountain range routes: restored next to the part of the courtyard where the cisterns, dungeons and old • Route of the Font Nova stables are located. • Route of the L’Estaca fountain • Viewpoint of the Àguila Route • Routes of the ravines Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 64 | 65

FONTANARS central body with neomudéjar toppings. Alto del Moro Forest House Signed by the architect Cortina, it is topped Former forestry house built during the DEL ALFORINS by a sphere with stars and the zodiac signs, twentieth century, currently in disuse, is a representing the universe and a large vane place to admire our entire municipal term. that marks the different winds. Population: 979 hab. FESTIVITIES Municipal area: 74,7 km2 TOURIST ATTRACTIONS January: festivities of San Antonio Abad Ca Vidal Late June: feast of “Festeras y Quintos” Altitude: 628 m. Small hamlet located a few km from the Late August, early September: patron saint Demonym: alforiner, alforinera town center, which can be accessed by the festivities of Moors and Christians Town Hall Phone no.: 96 222 22 33 FONTANARS DELS ALFORINS pedestrian road and bike path. Web: www.fontanarsdelsalforins.es EXCURSIONS E-mail: [email protected] Cellars Walking routes [email protected] Fontanars dels Alforins offers a varied wine ● Via Augusta Trail, Moixent-la Zafra tourism offer thanks to the landscape that section. Auxiliary branch of 6 km, forms the cultivation of the vineyard and connecting the Moixent and Vinalopó the numerous wineries located in old and sectors of the authentic Via Augusta MONUMENTS century and was a subsidiary of the church historic properties. Some can be visited and • Route 1 of the eco-guide of environmental Fontanars dels Alforins is a recent of Santa Maria de Ontinyent until December in them you can know the whole process of and cultural itineraries in the Vall d’Albaida municipality. Independent of Ontinyent in 31, 1953 was converted into a parish, by Mr. elaboration and tastings of the wines that region 1927, its urban center develops basically Marcelino Olaechea y Loizaga, Archbishop are produced in them. • Lime Route during the twentieth century forming of Valencia. It consists of a ship with • Cultural landscape itineraries straight and flat streets where the parish buttresses and covered by cannon turn that Sunday Market • Route to the Moro forest house church and its bell tower stand out. rests on Corinthian pillars. Takes place every Sunday in the Plaza Virgen del Rosario. LOCAL PRODUCTS Parish Church of Our Lady of the Rosary Bell tower • Gatxamiga It is located on the old hermitage of Built in 1916 from a tower already built Lime kilns • melon San Miguel and San Antonio Abad. This in 1864. It stands out for its characteristic Five itineraries for hiking and/or cycling • Wine. Especially the verdil, macabeo and hermitage began to be built in the sixteenth and peculiar blue and white cover and for a were restored and designed to get to know merseguera variety for white wines and this cultural, industrial and architectural monastrell, forcallà, arco, bonicaire and heritage. garnacha wines for red wines. • Mona de Pasqua (a traditional sweet Peres’s ravine recreation area eaten on Easter) Located on the CV-657 road in the direction • Pumpkins of Beneixama. LINKS OF INTEREST Les Piles recreation area www.terresdelsalforins.es Located only 1.5 km from the village, you can access on foot along the way of the Sort. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 66 | 67

GUADASSÉQUIES The Ordeal FESTIVITIES In the upper part of the village we find a Second week of August: patron saint cypress garden, with functions of ordeal festivities to Saint Roque, Our Lady of Hope and balcony-lookout. From here you can and the Christ of Amparo Population: 465 hab. see a beautiful panorama of the fertile December 18: Feast of Our Lady of Hope Municipal area: 3,3 km2 dims that separates Guadasséquies from GUADASSÉQUIES Sempere. Some cypresses are centuriesold EXCURSIONS Altitude: 180 m. me, since the hermitage of Christ of It is part of itinerary no. 2 of the Vall Demonym: vorassequià, vorassequiana Amparo and the ordeal itself date back to d’Albaida routes Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 30 05 1906, as can be read in a commemorative • Visit to the municipalities of Sempere and Web: www.guadasequies.es panel. Benissuera E-mail: [email protected] • Visit to the Bellús reservoir Christ’s hermitage • The Cid’s pathway - Stage 56: Xàtiva - The floor of the property is of Latin cross, Ontinyent illuminated in a cenital way by the lantern • Route of the four towns of the River of the dome. The altar presides over a (Alfarrasí, Benissuera, Sempere and MONUMENTS The new church meritorious canvas of the Christ of Amparo Guadasséquies) The Old Church The new church, located in the upper part (H.XVIII), which the faithful bring out in On the verge of being demolished by the of the village, dates from 1996-2000. The procession for the August festivities. LOCAL PRODUCTS construction of the Bellús reservoir, the interior of the temple is ornate by beautiful • Plastics industry neighbors saved it in 1997, restored it and stained glass windows of color and images Sundial • Yarns turned it into a parish museum. The old of a certain interest, among which stands Located in the place of the old church of • Marinades church was built in the mid-18th century on out the new Hope, the work of the sculptor Guadasséquies, it is composed of four • Metallic structures the floor of what was mosque, transformed Damia Pastor, given to the people by the overlapping cubes of steel and rock. It is • Photo Etched into Moorish church in 1535. The plant is a Marquise of Trénor around 1900. the work of the plastic artist Rafa Amorós Latin cross and the central nave, with side and Joan Olivares. From Guadasséquies you chapels, is covered by barrel vault with can walk to the municipalities of Sempere, lunettes. Benissuera, Alfarrasí or Bellús.

MUSEUMS The parish museum The old church houses works of art and merit, which constitute a small parish museum, inaugurated in 2003. In the cabinets exhibit casullas, dalmatics and other pieces of liturgical clothing; as well as interesting pieces of silverware from the XVIII-XIX centuries. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 68 | 69

LLUTXENT Hermitage of the Virgin of the Consolation Oil press Baroque style building built in 1772. Inside Former mill of the middle of the twentieth we find a unique set of Valencian ceramics century located on the road that was the from the eighteenth century where the beginning of the Cooperative of Llutxent. Miracle of the Corporals is counted. Also Population: 2.373 hab. noteworthy is the dome, stained glass and FESTIVITIES February 24: Saint Martin’s festivity, the Municipal area: 42,1 km2 LLUTXENT rococo altar. Altitude: 280 m. Miracle of the Corporales is commemorated Demonym: llutxentí, llutxentina Convent of Corpus Christi Last weekend of April: festivities to the Holy Set of buildings of different eras and styles. Face, to the Christ of the Conhorte and the Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 40 01 It was built in 1422 by the order of the Divine Aurora, with a parade of Moors and Web: www.llutxent.com Dominicans. In 1475 the first University of Christians E-mail: [email protected] Arts and Theology of Valencia was founded. July 6: Feast of the Apparition of the Cross Inside, the neoclassical cloister, the August 4: Feast and ‘Porrat de San swordsmanship and the refectory stand out. Domingo’ September 8: Feast and Porrat of the Virgin Castle of Xio of Consolation MONUMENTS treasures such as the icon of the Holy Face, From the time Almohade, XII century, it The Proxita’s palace-castle a processional cross and an arch of the was a place of vigilan and protection. It EXCURSIONS It is located at the highest part of the fifteenth century, among others. has a triangular plan with double walled GR 236: Route of the Monasteries (75 km village. It was built by the Proxites between enclosure, three turrets and an albarrana 3/4 days) www.rutadelsmonestirs.com the XIII-XIV centuries. Calvary of the sixteenth century tower. It preserves inside the remains of a PR-CV: 434: The Surar, the dry stone hut style, it has a square plan with four towers Old way to get up from the village to the cistern. and the puig-agut of Llutxent loathed around a courtyard. Inside stand convent. With a great slope it was cobbled Other excursions: out the paintings of the noble plant. towards the beginning of the sixteenth Municipal natural site of Surar • Puig Sant recreation area century. It is currently flanked by the calvary The Surar is located between the • Recreation area of Casas del Rafal Church of Our Lady of Assumption stations. municipalities of Llutxent and Pinet. On • Protected natural area of Surar de Built in the late nineteenth century. 4 March 2005, it was declared, by the Llutxent Neoclassical style, it preserves important agreement of the Council of the Generalitat, • Xetà ravine as a Municipal Natural Park of Surar. In • Jaume I route in the Vall d’Albaida addition to cork trees, this place has a • Route of the Corporales rich vegetation and comprises two • The Puig Agut route microreservae of flora. • Route of the old castle and the hill • Route to the owner of the Donkey Lime Kilns • Moorish surveillance route: high of the The trade of calcinero was, until the late Pinet castle 70s of the twentieth century, one of the It is part of itinerary no. 3 of the Vall main economic activities and source of d’Albaida routes. income in Llutxent, with a more than considerable number of lime kilns spread LOCAL PRODUCTS throughout its term. • Mesh • Sale of olive oil • Corn cakes or buns Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 70 | 71

MONTAVERNER inside a classroom of nature that will allow cage with beautiful birds such as peacock, us to know the historical and natural values swings, benches, grills for roasting and of the town. From the Fluvial Park we enjoy stoves, thus giving the municipality a play a beautiful view of the northern facade of area. Population: 1.640 hab. the town (protected), the church of San Juan and San Jaime, and at the same time The Short Bridge and the Long Bridge Municipal area: 7,47 km2 is the starting point of the Route of the Dating back to 1890, they are one of the Altitude: 200 m. Path by the Albaida and Clariano river and oldest iron bridges raised in the Valencian Demonym: montaverní, montavernina the historical ditches for traditional use of Community. Below the Short Bridge pass Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 70 08 MONTAVERNER the orchards. the waters of the Albaida River, while under Web: www.montaverner.es the Long Bridge pass those of the Clariano Electronic headquarters: The Convent or Ontinyent. Both rivers then join at the Historical building of great importance built height of the washing place of the fountain montaverner.sedelectronica.es by the Monpó-Soriano family in the postwar of the four jets. E-mail: [email protected] period (years 40-50). It was intended to train the children of Montaverner and the Washing place of the source of the four neighboring municipalities by the Capuchin jets MONUMENTS (adintelada and with pilasters), the bell Tertiary Sisters of the Sagrada Familia and It has three rafts formed by flat slabs of Parish church of St. Juan and St. Jaime the tower and the sundial. the Secular Amoris Opus Institute. The piated living stone. The water left over from Apostle main access of the building is located on the fountain is the one that continues to Built during the eighteenth century by Dr. La Sènia Park San Pancracio Avenue. It has a unit volume the laundry room and irrigates the orchards Josep Esplugues on an old Almohade tower A beautiful and elegant park covered with a architecture developed on two floors that of Colata. and a Gothic parish of reconquest called of wide variety of nature. distribute dependencies from a central James the Apostle. Architecturally it shows courtyard with a well in the middle. In the Colata a nave with chapels between buttresses. River park back has a garden-orchard characteristic It is one of the villages that remained after Inside the church, and supporting the Recreational area that belongs to the of monasteries and convents. The facade the expulsion of the Moors, decreed by pile of holy water, a fragment of Roman recovery of an old house belonging to the is composed of pinnacles and a central Philip III (II of Valencia) in 1609, and which inscription of a burial character is trucker Pawns, who used it for rest while altarpiece dating from 1945 made with belonged to the Lord of Benissuera (Bellvís). preserved. Highlights include the main door building the N-340 road. Soon we will find glazed polychrome ceramic paint with 42 There is located the hermitage of Colata, of pieces. Floor-to-ceiling windows respond to the nineteenth century, which houses the a pointed style. virgin of Loreto and in which stand out the columns of Ionian order of the door and the The ordeal neo-Gothic decoration of its interior. Built in 1941 and accessed via crucis. It is part of an elevation of the urban area FESTIVITIES next to the industrial estate La Cava de Easter Sunday and Monday: San Blas, with Montaverner. From here you can see the Flag dance. interesting views from the center of the Last week of August: festivities for the Vall: The Sierra Grossa and the Benicadell, Virgin of Loreto, the Christ of Patience, San the towns of Montaverner and Alfarrasí, and Juan and San Jaime, with entrance and the Bellús swamp. In 2004 a recreational parades of Moors and Christians. area was built in it, composed of a large Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 72 | 73

EXCURSIONS MONTIXELVO Trails along the Albaida and Clariano rivers (1.8 km 1h - 15min.) -Excursions: Poulation: 605 hab. • Calvario Recreation Area Municipal area: 8,2 km2 • The source of Povil, of the Englishman, of Altitude: 270 m. Can Blanc, The Four jets and the Mill MONTIXELVO • La Rambla Demonym: montixelvà, montixelvana • The Cid’s pathway - Stage 56: Xàtiva - Town Hall Phone no.: 96 289 70 00 Ontinyent Web: www.montichelvo.es Jaume I route in the Vall d’Albaida E-mail: [email protected] It is part of the Via Augusta The route of sundials

LOCAL PRODUCTS MONUMENTS out in neoclassical style. Inside are the • Wicker baskets Historic Center ceramic altarpieces of the 18th century and • Virgin olive oil Still retains the ancient medieval plot in the mural paintings of the chapel of the which the street of Dalt stands out, as the baptismal font. The bell tower houses the TELEPHONES OF INTEREST center of power of the old town. In it is the Anne-Marie bell, blessed in 1908. Youth Information Center (CIJ): church of Santa Ana and the remains of the 96 229 86 32 old castle-palace. Also elements of interest Montitxelvo castle-palace are the ceramic altarpieces, the fountain of It was a quadrangular defensive Abajo, the Plaza Cervantes or the hermitage construction with turrets on its edges. Only of El Salvador. one of its two-storey-high defensive towers with ojival crossing and part of the canvas St. Ana church of the medieval town wall is preserved. It was built in Baroque style, but subsequent renovations were carried Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 74 | 75

The raisin and the Riuraus FESTIVITIES L’OLLERIA The Riuraus are agricultural buildings that January 16: St. Antonio Bonfires were used for the production of the raisin. Easter: “La Salpassà”. Tradition of possible The grapes harvested in late summer were Jewish or pre-Christian origin, consisting of blanched with boiling water in the riuraus the blessing of salt and water in each of the Population: 8.225 hab. ovens; then began the sun drying on the houses in order to protect the house, crops Municipal area: 32,2 km2 extended reeds in the yard. The grapes and families. Altitude: 250 m. L’OLLERIA were kept inside the building overnight or First weekend of May: major festivities Demonym: ollerià, olleriana in the face of threats of rain. to the Virgin of the Rosary, the Christ of Town Hall Phone no.: 96 220 06 01 Forgiveness, the Divine Aurora and the Hydraulic heritage Immaculate Conception Web: www.lolleria.org Extensive hydraulic heritage derived from Sunday of Corpus: “Els Altarets” E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], an efficient water use for agriculture and First weekend of July: festivities of Moors [email protected] human supply. and Christians July: Cultural week with giant , El Sastre raft exhibitions, sports competitions, theater, MONUMENTS Formed by two rafts for irrigation made in cinema in the square and cucañas. San Juan Bautista Hospital Convent of the Capuchins masonry and mortar mortar. It receives the First weekend of September: festival of In 1880 came to the village of l’Olleria Old primitive hermitage located in the waters of the Fuente de Ferri and channels the “l’Escaldà de la Pansa” (scalding of the the money needed for the charitable area of The Serratella and dedicated to them into the orchard thanks to ditches raisin). For four years the City Council has construction of the hospital, moving it to the Saints of the Stone. On it was founded and aqueducts. organized the feast of the Escaldà with the the current site, since the old Royal Hospital in 1601 the convent of the Capuchins, aim of recovering this tradition of the town was located in the Plaza de la Vila. From its dedicated to the missions. In the orchard Micairent Mill linked to the cultivation of the vineyard, inception until 2006 he was assisted by a there is a monumental tree known as This 18th-century mill used the waters of and it does so with correfuegos, concerts, community of Capuchin Tertiary nuns. On the Murta, considered one of the largest the Micairent Fountain to move the grinding scalding of the raisin… an architectural level the hospital preserves and oldest in Europe. Within the convent wheel in charge of grinding wheat. It the neo-Gothic chapel and cloisters. highlights the water clock used to regulate EXCURSIONS are preserved important ethnographic the use of its waters. SL-CV 83: La Creueta viewpoint (1 km 30 collections, as well as a museum dedicated min.) to the Italian painter Escar Marziali. Planet Aqueduct SL-CV 84: Water Route(5km 2h). It is one of the best preserved aqueducts PR-CV 390: The Penyes Albes Route (8,7km of the municipality, dating from the XVXVIII 2h 55min.) centuries and is made with Valencian Other excursions: tapestry and cooked baroque bricks. • Place of the Mill Fountain • Local products Alcabor de Remigio It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the Vall Water mine of the early twentieth century d’Albaida routes that was built with flat masonry slabs, imitating Roman technique. Capture the LOCAL PRODUCTS groundwater for irrigation of the nearby • Fruit trees orchard. • Cold meat • The Raisin Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 76 | 77

Sanctuary of the Virgin of Loreto eighteenth century he devoted himself MUSEUMS Other excursions: In 1579 the Domicos founded the first to St. Mary Magdalene. On 29 January Marau’s Palace. Santonja House • Rodat camping area and recreational area monastery of l’Olleria, using for its 1522, the viceroy burned the church Ravalet, 11 Street It is part of itinerary no. 1 of the Vall construction the medieval hermitage of with approximately 600 people, who flee Arrange visit. d’Albaida routes the Virgin of Loreto and the adjacent Arab persecution of the viceroy had taken refuge Tel. 96 220 06 01 tower, which was used as a bell tower. The inside. Only the entrance “dels Grissons” is LOCAL PRODUCTS church was built in the style of the Counter- preserved from this fire. After the fire the Glass Museum of the Capuchinos Convent • Glass production (visit to the glass Reformation and inside is the carved and church was rebuilt and expanded and today Camino Caputxins, s/n production companies) polychrome image of the Virgin of Loreto it is declared of Cultural Interest. Arrange visit. (patron saint of the population), and also Tel. 96 220 00 63 TELEPHONES OF INTEREST the altar relicario, dedicated to Blessed Hermitage of the Christ of La Palma L’Olleria Town Hall: 96 220 0601 Father Ferreres, scholar and martyr of Dates from the eighteenth to the twenty FESTIVITIES Municipal Library of l’Olleria: l’Olleria. century and is the hermitage of the old January: St. Antonio Abad, distribution of 96 220 00 98 cemetery. Inside is the image of the Christ blessed bread and blessing of animals L’Olleria Youth Information Center: Vila House of the Palm, one of the patterns of the February: Carnival with ‘Cassoleta’ food of 96 220 08 66 It dates back to the 16th century and is one population. paw and belly in the countryside of the oldest communal houses, late Gothic July 22: feast of the Magdalena with style and the first Renaissance. Highlights Monastery of San José and Santa Ana traditional dances and human towers, include the ground floor market, which Convent of closure of the Agustinas recovered by the “Ball dels Locos de opens three large arches in the square and Descalzas founded posthumously by l’Olleria”. in Batle Street and the twin windows of the Patriarch San Juan de Ribera in 1611. For First weekend of September: festivities of room. its construction, with modest features, Moors and Christians in honor of St. Miguel, a watchtower was used and currently l’Ecce Homo, the Christ of the Palm and the Almodí. Cervantes Theater preserves remains of wall in the orchard. Virgin of Loreto. The building was Almodí from the sixteenth October 25-28: Fun Fair of l’Olleria century to the nineteenth century and Marau’s Palace (Santonja House) in the nineteenth century it became the At the end of the nineteenth century EXCURSIONS Cervantes Theater. Late Gothic style with the widow of the last Marau married a Routes to get to know the mountains and romantic décor, the dressing was built Santonja. It was an enlightened and liberal the natural heritage of the municipality: by the labradors to store the reserve of family, related to the power of the time • Capuchinos Convent - the Port (5.19 km) the villa’s rice wheat grain. Here was the and Freemasonry. Around 1810 an artistic • Tour of the surroundings of l’Olleria actual weight to guarantee the sale. When intervention was made to decorate the (7,045 km) it ceased to be used at the end of the staircase and the large hall of the palace, • Capuchinos - La Ponta (8,025 km) nineteenth century it was adapted to create following the canons of the illustration • Capuchinos - The cave of San Nicolás the first stable theater of the villa. and representing a complete universe in (8,565 km) the hall. There is symbology related to • El Puerto Trail - El Salido (4,525 km) Main Church of Santa María Magdalena Freemasonry. • Integral of the Grossa Mountain (16.3 km) It was built throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries so it is Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque style. Built on the old mosque, it is one of the few fortified churches left. At the end of the Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 78 | 79

ONTINYENT The square is presided over by the old baptismal font (17th century); the pictorial Council House or old Town Hall, built in collection of Vidal & Tur with works by the sixteenth century at the head of the Ribalta and anonymous from the XVII; and medieval fortifications and renovated in the the Sizes of Saint Sepulchre (1943) and eighteenth and twentieth centuries. In the Poulation: 35.395 hab. the Soledad (1944) by Mariano Benlliure. eastern part is the Llotgeta del Mostassaf, In the chapel of the Most Pure (1662- Municipal area: 125,43 km2 built in the sixteenth century, and in 1692) the image of the patron saint of the Altitude: 353 m. the west part is the Old Almudin of the town, carved in silver, recently restored is Demonym: ontinyentí, ontinyentina sixteenth century, converted into prisons in venerated. Town Hall Phone no.: 96 291 82 00 ONTINYENT the following century. Opposite stands out Web: www.ontinyent.es the Palace of the Counts of Torrefiel (S. Square and gateway of San Roque XVXVIII), seat of the current Town Hall. It was the first door opened by Christians E-mail: [email protected] in 1257 that gave access to the walled [email protected] Bell tower of the Villa enclosure and would serve as a It is one of the symbolic references and complement to the, until then unique, identifiers of the city, and is considered major portal or the Mirador. It was called one of the highest in Spain. It is the third the portal of San Pere and gave access to MONUMENTS overthrown at the end of the eighteenth of the towers that has had the temple and the Plaza del Castillo (today san Roque Old Bridge century. You can see the remains of an old its construction began in 1689. The second square). In this square, the basic public This emblematic bridge was built watchtower and a chapel where the. body and the finish of the tower of bells, services would be established: the seat of between 1500 and 1501 by the masters built around 1745, suffered the effects the court or court of the judiciary of justice, of construction and stonemasons Pere Major Square of the earthquake of 1748. Its current the butcher’s shop, the fishmonger’s house Ribera and Joan Montanyés. It consists It rises on a space at the foot of walls in appearance, with the forging finish, is a and the house of the veterinarian among of two half-point arches, slightly pointed, what was a ravine later covered to facilitate consequence of the impact of lightning others. Highlights include the monumental supported on three buttresses, the central the extension of the city by the part of the in 1859 that forced the demolition of the Palace of the Villa (XIII-XIX centuries) and of which is a formidable foot of keel-shaped arrabal. Since the sixteenth century, it has former and the construction of the current in a corner we can see a house with a noble ashlars. Its outer surface is chopped stone been the nerve center of the activities of the one around 1880. In the bell tower is shield belonging to the Borgia family. ashlars, although the railing was built municipality, which is why it concentrates preserved one of the oldest bells of the Leaving the portal, we can admire the with the remains of various mural portals the most relevant historical buildings. region, the clock bell called Rauxa i Foc complex, monumental and well preserved, (1563). It is worth taking a guided tour with of the convent of the Carmelite Nuns the Bell Ringer Group (Tel: 626 23 32 71). (sixteenth century).

Church of Santa María and Chapel of La Palace of La Vila Purísima The palace is located in the most exposed The church of Santa Maria was built part of the walls as a fortress or citadel that between the fourteenth and sixteenth looks to the west and summarizes all the centuries, probably on the ancient Islamic historical stages of Ontinyent. It originally mosque. The roof is a Gothic cross vault, had a military character as an Islamic supported on helical pilasters, and the main Alcazar. With the Christian occupation it door (1530) is Renaissance style. Inside was greatly transformed and its ownership stands out: the table of the Annunciation would be shared between the royal power, (15th century); the oil paintings of José for the exclusive use of the Crown, and the Segrelles (twentieth century); the Florentine municipal power, to house the primitive Guía turística de la Vall d’Albaida region 80 | 81

Council. At the end of the fifteenth century samples of pre-Columbian art, ancient pieces from mostly the Square of Sant Roc, 2 (Palau de La Vila) Tel: it was acquired by the Blasco, belonging coins, remains of Egypt of the pharaohs, archaeological surveys and excavations 96 291 60 90 to the nobility, and the building was manuscripts and books of incalculable carried out in the region with a variety of E-mail: [email protected] expanded suffering many transformations. value. objects, basically ceramic and stone, but Hours: Mornings from Tuesday to Saturday Being owned by the Counts of also metallic, bone or glass, with a wide from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Afternoons from hosted the visit of Empress Margaret of Av. Sant Francesc, 5 chronological framework that supplies from Monday to Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 Austria in 1666. In the nineteenth century Tel: 96 238 01 00 the late Paleolithic to the modern era. p.m. Free entry. it passed into the hands of the Duchess of e-mail: [email protected] Almodóvar. Then it would be divided into Hours: Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. Regall, 2 Street Ontinyent Giants and Bigheads Museum rental homes and would go into decline. to 1:00 p.m. Saturdays by appointment. Tel: 679 18 38 51 In it you can see the six giants that Rehabilitation work began in 2008 after the Free entry. e-mail: [email protected] represent the three cultures that coexisted relevant archaeological interventions. Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 6:00 p.m. in the Middle Ages and the nine heady Museum of our festivities of Moors and to 9:00 p.m. Free entry ones inspired basically by american cinema Major Street of the Villa Christians characters of the 30s and 40s. Also on The street of the Trinity, next to the street Opened at the end of 2001, in which Valencian Textile Museum display are the newly recovered figures of of San Pere obtained, in the popular emblematic and unique pieces of our It houses about 70 pieces from the the Eagle and the Turtle. language, the consideration of Major Street Moors and Christians festivities, declared eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries for its importance in medieval times. To of National Tourist Interest, are exhibited. related to the textile manufacturing Square of Sant Roc, 2 (Palau de La Vila) Tel: each other part of this main road flows A tour of different rooms shows the visitor process, among which there are reeds, 96 291 60 90 other alleys and alleys full of charm: such elements that help to understand our paraffin, silver and gold threads, scissors, E-mail: gegantsicabetsontinyent@gmail. as the Church, the Wall, Callarís, Cordellat, festival and its history over more than 150 arabic gum, pieces, looms of the eighteenth com Carreró de la Paella, among others. years; photographs, costumes, paintings, and nineteenth centuries, ancient books Hours: Mornings from Tuesday to Saturday Strolling through these streets is a pleasure sculptures, dresses, weapons, posters, and samples of different fabrics, distributed from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Afternoons from for the senses, enjoying the silence, programs, furniture, books and other in four spaces that explain the process, Monday to Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 admiring the stone dovelas of the houses, curiosities that make up a unique cultural with special attention to Ontinyent’s own p.m. Free entry. the stately homeowners, some of them with and party space. elements. heraldic shields, or ceramic altarpieces. Between the two streets we find the square Plaça de Baix, 26 of San Pere, dedicated to one of the old Tel: 96 238 02 52 - 692 33 01 83 copatrons of the town. In the center of the e-mail: [email protected] square we can contemplate a fountain and Hours: Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 a carving modeled in bronze representing a.m. to 1:30 p.m. the martyr of Verona. Possibility of arranging group visits outside these hours. MUSEUMS AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Admission: € 1 Museum of Natural Sciences (La Concepción School) Ontinyent and Vall d’Albaida The convent of Franciscan Fathers keeps Archaeological Museum (MAOVA) pieces from an amazing collection. You Center for conservation, management, can visit, on the one hand, the botanical research and dissemination of garden and the museum of natural sciences archaeological heritage. It is located with collections of Spanish, African and in the old building of Juzgados XVII century) American fauna and, on the other hand, and contains a collection of archaeological Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 82 | 83

FESTIVITIES • Tour Pou de l’Olleta - Pou Clar Means of transport Weekend of the fourth Sunday of August: • Trail and recreational area of Sant Esteve La Concepción buses: Moors and Christians festivities to the Holy • Trail of the Cova de l’Avern 96 238 03 62 - 96 349 99 49 Christ of Agony (of National Tourist Interest) • Trail of the Pas de l’Ase Navarro buses (urban): Third weekend of November: Fun Fair of • Trail of the Font del Nano 96 238 50 11 Ontinyent • Raboser Fountain Info Renfe: 902 320 320 Between November and December: la • Canyís Well Taxis: 626 727 444, 609 401 140, 646 969 Purísima, el Bou en Corda, l’Embolà, the • The Cid’s pathway - Stage 56: Xàtiva - 035, 678 412 989, 667 839 526, 633 212 Song of the Angels, the Procession with Ontinyent 015 traditional dances: Giants and Bigheads, • The Cid’s pathway - Stage 57: Ontinyent - Arquets, Cavallets, Veta, Moma, Turtle and Banyeres Emergencies the Eagle. • Jaume I route in the Vall d’Albaida Emergency Coordination Center: 112 Throughout the year: festivities of the It is part of itinerary no. 6 of the routes National Police Station: 091 neighborhoods and hermitages, such as through the Vall d’Albaida Spanish Red Cross: 96 291 00 69 San Antonio, Llombo, San Esteve, San Civil Guard: 062 Rafael, Camí dels Carros, Corpus Christi, LOCAL PRODUCTS Local Police: 96 291 82 01 Easter, etc. • Blankets Local Police Emergencies: 092 • Home textile Civil Protection: 96 238 90 70 EXCURSIONS • Traditional cold meat Ordinary Service of Medical Emergencies: SL-CV 9: Castellar pathway (1 km 30 min) • Cake shop 96 291 94 55 SL-CV 19: Remallar or Gamellons pathway (7,6 km 2h 10min) TELEPHONES OF INTEREST PR-CV 121: track of Enginyers - la Covalta City Council Public Services: 96 291 82 00 (16,5 km 3h 35min) Municipal Archive: 96 291 21 11 PR-CV 122: pathway of the Tarongers Library “Lluís Galiana”: 96 291 19 55 ravine, old path Ontinyent - Bocairent San José Library: 96 238 67 37 (10,2 km 2h 25min) Culture Center: 96 291 82 30 PR-CV 306: Trail of the Cinquantenari (22,8 Vall d’Albaida Association of km 5h 30min) Municipalities: 96 291 15 32 GR 7: Venta Boquilla - Alcoi (Term of Vall d’Albaida Tourism: 96 238 90 91 Ontinyent Bocairent> 17,3 km. 4h 50min) MAOVA: 679 18 38 51 Environment: 96 291 82 29 Other excursions: Municipal Market: 96 291 27 96 • Chimneys Route PROP and OMIC Office (Information Office • Air Raid Shelters Route Consumer): 96 291 82 03 • River route Youth Information Office:96 238 37 51 • Municipal Natural Area of Pou Clar and Indoor Pool: 96 238 43 06 Sierra de la Ombria Sports center: 96 291 27 01 • Gamellons camping area Echegaray Theater: 96 238 30 68 • 4 environmental trails of Fuset: didactic, panoramic, caving and hiking itinerary • Trail of the Enginyers - Ombria • Trail of l’Alba - Pou de l’Olleta Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 84 | 85

OTOS Historic Center Rafael Amorós in homage to the soldiers Configured along the main street, around of Otos disappeared in the wars of the which are located smaller ones, highlight twentieth century. the streets of Cristo and San José. In Iglesia Population: 450 hab. Street we can find the commemorative Castle of Carbonera Municipal area: 11,24 km2 sculpture of the 200th anniversary of the Old Andalusian castle located on a rocky Altitude: 330 m. patron saint festivities of Otos of José hill on the northern slope of the Sierra del Demonym: otosí, otosina OTOS Sanjuan. Benicadell of which only remains of the Town Hall Phone no.: 96 235 82 35 walls remain. Palace of the Marquis of San José from Web: www.otos.es Otos Abajo Fountain E-mail: [email protected] Stately palace built in the eighteenth Located west of the urban center of Otos, century. It has three heights with central about 200 m away, on the banks of the patio. Architecturally it shows characteristic ravine of la Mata. To one part of the ravine stretches of the architecture of the Crown is the laundry room and the fountain, and of Aragon. Highlights include the door of on the other side there is a recreational MONUMENTS Olivares: We come from the north, we come the facade with the noble shield and the top area. Town of the sundials from the south; Manolo Boix, Polifem; Artur decorated with a row of arches of half point. Tourist-cultural route consisting of 13 Heras: Meló Soleil; Ximo Boluda and Joan It is currently completely rehabilitated. MUSEISTIC COLLECTION sundials designed by Valencian artists, Olivares: Equatorial Clock; Tino Pla and The Collection of Antonio Miró using different shapes, materials, Joan Olivares: Repoblament; Joan Olivares: Parish Church of the Immaculate The permanent collection of Antonio Miró sculptures and themes. Famous artists such Pedra de Basset; Joanfra Tormo: The source Conception in the Palace of Otos was inaugurated in as Andreu Alfaro, The norm is not a dogma; of life and the clock, donation It is dedicated to the Pure Conception and 2012 with an initial donation of 12 corten Arcadi Blasco, Mud Clock; Elisa Martí, of the Muixeranga de Algemesí to the was built in the first half of the eighteenth steel sculptures, 2 works with digital United, ceramic mural watch with legend of municipality of Otos. These 13 that form the century. It is of Jesuit style and has three graphics on paper and the assignment of homage to the 19th century bandit Mariano route, we can add 15 more that are located naves, cruiser and dome in spherical cap. the series “Ciutats” composed of 25 works. Seguí, and the Kitten of Otos; Rafael by the different facades of the municipality. Damaged during the Civil War, it has In 2015 the artist made a donation to the Armengol: Pepper watch; Antoni Miró: subsequently been restored several times. City Council of Otos of 70 works of his (40 Bicycle watch; Rafael Amorós and Joan Highlights include the frescoes of the four etchings, 7 lithographs, 9 screenprints and evangelists, the Holy Trinity (attributed to 14 with digital graphic on paper) and again Vicente López), the Gothic-Renaissance pile in 2016 Antoni Miró presented the people of limestone, etc. of Otos with a new donation of 14 works of his. Hermitage of the Virgen de los Dolores You can visit the collection by appointment From the eighteenth century, inside the calling at 96 235 82 35 (Otos Town Hall). building stand out the romantic style paintings with scenes of the ordeal the luminosity of which is very unusual. Outside, in the park, we highlight the pieces of the old oil mill, located in a privileged viewpoint that offers beautiful views of the Benicadell. In the same park is located the sculpture of Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 86 | 87

FESTIVITIES EL PALOMAR Weekend following January 17: Feast of San Antonio Street Population: 571 hab. Thursday before Carnival: “Dia de les Cassoles” Municipal area: 7,80 km2 Weekend following March 19: Feast of San Altitude: 192 m. José Street Demonym: palomarenc, palomarenca EL PALOMAR From 3 to 8 August: patron saint festivities Town Hall Phone no.: 96 239 10 96 in honor of the Christ of Faith, the Saints of Web: www.elpalomar.es the Stone and the Immaculate Conception. E-mail: [email protected] EXCURSIONS SL-CV 10: general path of Otos (4 km 1 h 20 min) MONUMENTS machine and water birth with six jets Other excursions: Carrícola Castle that give it name, restaurant, children’s • The Castle of Carbonera Medieval tower of the thirteenth century area, football field, picnic areas, services, • The Tormo refrigerator recently restored. It is a construction of a paelleros, swings, zip lines, etc. From this • The Benicadell military character typical of the society of area, in addition, begins the Ruta del • The Font Freda (Cold source) Al-Andalus built by the Moors. It is located Barranco de la Junda with witnesses of • Font de Baix (source below) about 5 km from the city center, next to the Muslim heritage such as fountains, • Ravine of the Mata recreational area.. Route SL-CV 118 that runs through the irrigation rafts, mills, poplars and different It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the Vall Protected Natural Site of the Benicadell panoramas of the region. d’Albaida routes Umbria and joins with the PRV-222 path of the Benicadell. Church of St. Peter the Apostlel LOCAL PRODUCTS This church was built in the seventeenth • Agricultural products Six Fountain century on the old medieval temple of the • Fruit It is a natural place where you can relax town, although the current Baroque aspect • Vineyard surrounded by nature. It has a washing dates from the eighteenth century. Once • Olives

TELEPHONES OF INTEREST Otos Town Hall: 96 235 82 35 Tourist GUide of the Vall d’Albaida region 88 | 89 inside, stands out the interesting museum around the fire, lit by the oldest person in PINET background of the parish that holds the town. Music and fireworks accompany different pieces of sculpture, goldsmithing this tradition that begins the holiday and religious-themed painting. It also calendar year after year. impresses the pictorial ensemble of the PINET main altarpiece concerning the figure of Feasts of the Xop (poplar) Poulation: 178 hab. They are celebrated on the second Simó Pere. At its feet is the bell tower, more Municipal area: 11,9 km2 than 200 years old. weekend of May in honor of the Virgin of the Homeless and is one of the most Altitude: 340 m. Demonym: pinatell, pinatella Hermitage of the Roser important festivals of the municipality. It has recently been declared a Festival of Hermitage of neoclassical inspiration Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 41 51 Local Tourist Interest. It is a traditional and definitively re-built in the nineteenth Web: www.pinet.es ancient festival in which the “Plantà del century. It is surrounded by an ordeal and a E-mail: [email protected] Xop” (the put in of the poplar), the dance landscaped space with swings.. of the shepherds and the dance of the flag stand out. Along the streets MONUMENTS On the village tour we find several sundials, Patron Saint festivities Urban center 1928, stands out throughout the pot. The such as the analagmatic sundial of the Are held on the third weekend of August. Highlights remarkable examples of civil bell tower, which is now above the entrance Astros Park that takes advantage of Highlights include Moorish and Christian architecture, mainly in the street of the door to the temple, replaced an earlier bell our shadow to set the time. We also find parades, processions, costumes, patron Church and on Major Street. tower of two bodies with the renovation numerous polychrome and devotional masses, traditional dances and paellas, carried out in the building in 2005. The ceramic brick ensembles that decorate events accompanied by various theater Parish Church of St. Peter the Apostle village of Pinet suffered the consequences many of the houses of the municipality. In performances and music that set the days Dates from the late eighteenth century and of the expulsion of the Moors, and in 1664 addition, we can observe many interesting of patron saint festivities in honor of the stands out for its constructive simplicity. it counted only 20 inhabitants. This caused traditional houses for their antiquity and Sagrada Familia. Indoors it shows a covered nave with the town church to remain under the their intrinsic value as part of the cultural cannon turn, reinforced by arches resting jurisdiction of the Dominican convent of heritage of the neighbors. EXCURSIONS Llutxent until the confiscation of the year SL-CV 118 Castle Route and other jewels of on buttresses and four intermediate chapels. The door, which was restored in 1835. MUSEUM rural heritage (6,15 km – 1h 20’) The Hall Ravine of the Junda: Muslim heritage It is the building that housed the first consistory of the town and has been TELEPHONES OF INTEREST recently restored preserving its facade and Mayor’s office: 677 579 035 other original elements. The archaeological Schools: 96 239 80 33 museum shows the restored pieces and Nursery: 600 477 392 Sports center: remains found in the building and in the 678 413 016 Outpatient: 96 291 95 41 Castle of Carrícola. Pharmacy: 96 290 10 85 Canera:605 817 841 FESTIVITIES Feasts of St. Antonio They are celebrated in the month of January and gather the whole village Tourist GUide of the Vall d’Albaida region 90 | 91

FESTIVITIES LA POBLA DEL DUC Around June 29: patron saint festivities in honor of the Conception, the Christ of the Population: 2.547 hab. mountain and St. Peter the Apostle with walks, processions and verbenas. Municipal area: 18,9 km2 Altitude: 243 m. At the end of September: the Gastronomic LA POBLA and Craft Fair is held Demonym: poblatà, poblatana DEL DUC Town Hall Phone no.: 96 225 00 66 EXCURSIONS Web: www.lapobladelduc.es • Protected natural area of El Surar de E-mail: [email protected] Pinet-Llutxent • The Old Vineyard • Ravine and source of the Castellet • It is part of the route of the Monasteries MONUMENTS the body of the bells with its mating of • The rock of Migdia, the Alto de Carpi, the Historic Center mid-point shutters, balustrade and Ionic Loma Plana Historic Center with important architectural pilasters. It becomes an emblematic urban • Pinet-El Surar- cycle tour and historical resources. Popular and reference above all, because it stands out It is part of itinerary no. 3 of the Vall bourgeois houses, located along the historic in the street where The New Street and d’Albaida routes center, characterized by a civil architecture the Square of the Church are located and linked to the rural world. connected urbanally. LOCAL PRODUCTS • Elaboration of carrycot and baskets with Parish Church Square Our Lady of the Town Hall of La Pobla del Duc leaves or palms. Assumption It is a building of 2 floors: on the ground The main building is built in the floor we find the function room where the seventeenth century. The current bell plenary sessions are held, on the first floor tower was finished in 1789, has two are located the municipal offices, mayor bodies and topped, and has a hexagonal and secretarial, and on the upper floor plant. It is worth noting the elegance of are the local development area and the accounting department. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 92 | 93

Devotional ceramic panels Municipal washing place FESTIVITIES TELEPHONES OF INTEREST Are ceramic altarpieces dated from the Located in place of Concordia, it was built From 3 to 11 January: Novenario and Feast City Council of La Pobla del Duc: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries in 1930 and renovated in 1988, it is in good of the Christ of Amparo 96 225 00 66 located in some streets of the town and condition. It shows rectangular plan and 3 February: festivity of St. Blas Local Police: 649 455 372 that are dedicated to San Vicent Ferrer, San covered with two sides of Arabic tile. The Three last days of July and the first of Social worker, library and Social Center: Cristobal and Santo Tomás, San Francisco central stack is exempt and large in size. August: feast to the Saints of the Stone, 96 292 79 82 and San Miguel, la Purísima, the Trinity and with processions and street dances Pobla del Duc Health Center: 96 224 96 64 the Virgin of Solitude. La Poasa: Medieval cistern Town by town Pobla del Duc Pharmacy: 96 225 03 14 For its origin you have to look for it in Last weekend of August: presentation of Pobla del Duc Parish: 96 225 00 42 Convent Park medieval Muslim times. In the place that is the queen of feasts and court of honor, and Benigànim-Emergency Health Center: Built from the demolition of the Old located there was a communal Ferris wheel. Moors and Christians festivities. 96 224 92 55 Convent of the Minimums in 1989, which It was renovated in 1877 and restored in First weekend of September: patron saint Benigànim Civil Guard: 96 221 50 07 was built in 1603, on the hermitage of San 1984 by the City Council. festivities in honor of the Divine Aurora Emergencies and urgencies: 112 Sebastian and San Fabián. The portal of and the patrons San Blas and the Christ of the old convent placed at the entrance of Refuge of the Pla de Micena and refuge of Amparo. LINKS OF INTEREST the urban park is preserved as a decorative La casa Alta First weekend of October: trade and Geolocation application of resources element. The park was built in 1989 and The airfield of Micena was a work of gastronomic fair and the route of the military anti-aircraft includes remains of two tombstones with considerable proportions and budget that shelters of La Pobla del Duc ‘Route of the benches, a high-rang stage, roof and an employed around a thousand workers. EXCURSIONS shelters of the Civil War’ on the App Store ordeal (from the third station) surrounding The Royal Road of Gandía or Montaverner It is part of itinerary no. 3 of the routes and Google Play. the central space. Road was raised and flattened for the through the Vall Blanca construction of two tracks, built a command • La Penyeta recreational area Industrial Chimney - Wine Cooperative post house known as the Casa del Coronel, • Tarrenet House and Casa Alta A vestige of the 1940s, owned by the Wine and conditioned the Upper House to be • Trail of the de la Pobla Cooperative of La Pobla de Duc, reflected used as a home for pilot squadrons and • Carrasques route from the agri-food transformation activity, support troops. With regard to the means of • Route of military air raid shelters: Pla de which was used among other things for the passive defense, it highlights the existence Micena and Casa Alta alcohol distillation process. The Vitivinícola of two large shelters located in the Upper • Jaume I route in the Vall d’Albaida Cooperative has been the economic lung of House, with capacity for 70 people and • Literary Route the municipality throughout the twentieth south of the countryside, the Micena with • The Heretats Route century. It was the first association with capacity for 40 people. These shelters, of a cooperativism character of the Vall similar construction to those preserved in LOCAL PRODUCTS d’Albaida, founded in the late 1930s. The Toro, were intended for protection against •Agricultural products: summer fruit, winery, with a capacity of 55,000 liters, had airstrikes, with brick and mortar cladding grape, persimmon, pumpkin a production of approximately two million and with two entrance hydrants. • Wine liters of wine, a part of which its distribution • Percussion instruments in the internal markets. The cooperative is • Farm machinery also equipped with a fruit and vegetable section that markets grapes, persimmons, watermelons and other summer fruits. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 94 | 95

QUATRETONDA No less well known is the Latin inscription: d’Albaida, presents a popular construction Pax et unitatis me fecerunt which appears of rural characteristics, with ground floor,

Population: 2.278 hab. QUATRETONDA on its walls and that comes to say Peace first floor and platform. Its facade stands and Union made me. out a balcony of the sixteenth century. Municipal area: 43 km2 Altitude: 224 m. Hermitage of San José Wine Cooperative Demonym: quatretondà, quatretondana Baroque building of the seventeenth It was built in 1953. Your partners are Town Hall Phone no.: 96 226 45 71 century, originally outside the walls of the grouped into sections so that you can Web: www.quatretonda.es village on a small elevation. Hermitage of carry out the specific activities of each E-mail: [email protected] simple rectangular plan, presents a nave section together. The cooperative consists of three sections with barrel vault and side of seven sections: credit, winery, fruit and

chapels between pilasters. The main facade, vegetable, irrigation, consumption, service MONUMENTS painting depicting the archangel S. Gabriel at the foot of the nave, is shaped like an and supplies. The cooperative develops a Church of saints Juanes edged of an eighteenth-century medallion, altarpiece, topped in a swordsmanship and series of activities such as the marketing of It is of a Baroque period in general, with decorative characteristics of the decorative details - balls and pinnacles - of the partners’ fruit and vegetable products, although it combines different artistic rococo. The chapel of the communion of the the late renaissance, with a door in an olives and grapes. It also sells agricultural styles. The temple has a unique nave, wide nineteenth century, in an academic style, undecorated adintelada shape. On the and consumer supplies to partners, as well rectangular plan, with side chapels between presents interesting paintings in the dome, facade we can see different engravings with as irrigation and other field-related services. buttresses. It features a single cross vault although in a sorry state, and the side information on the dates of construction In 1998 the Coarval store was opened, cover in the first three sections, from murals are from the 60s, by M. Vaquero. and renovation (1607 and 1895) as well later in 2003 a new, more modern and terceletes to the cruiser and crashed in the as anagrams referring to innovations of technology-built winery was built. presbytery. Highlights include Valencian The Bell tower the holders of the ermitorio (Hail Mary, ceramic tiles of chapel of sacrament or At the foot of the church rises the towerbell Joseph and Jesus) as well as a modern The oil press transaltar that represent the characteristic tower, composed of three bodies and ceramic altarpiece of 1961, reminder of the This mill has been in operation interrupted emblems of the Patriarch. Also noteworthy finish. Baroque work of 1694 with elements miraculous body. for more than 125 years, going through is the altarpiece on the door of the sacristy, that survive from the Gothic, case of the four generations within the same family. painting of the seventeenth century, pointed arches that form the body of the The Ordeal Get the oil completely naturally and by cold which represents the Virgin delivering the bells, and the Renaissance ornamental This set is completed with the calvarios of pressing. scapular. Inside the sacristy we find a fresco details are shown in the balls and pinnacles. Arriba, with masonry wall and corners of seating with stone staircase. And Calvary of The Old Fountain bass or of the Dolores with cross of term. Located near the town in the southeast, in a natural area located between two Hermitage of San Martín ravines: that of the Fontetes and that of the In the plain, a few kilometers away, is Acequia. The fountain is integrated within a the simple and austere hermitage of San set of constructions for the exploitation of Martín, of unknown origins and on the old water, such as: the cava, the access bridge, village of Rosament. the new fountain, the laundry room and the drinker. Of the whole heritage complex The House of the Villa we will highlight the cava that gives name Building of the XVII century, seat of the to the place. One of the most interesting municipal government until the recent time aspects of the fountain is an inscription, when it has been intended for public library. with capital letters, which is engraved on Chronologically it is the third of the Vall a street on the east footboard, just above a Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 96 | 97 stone with a hoop, no doubt to tie the celebrated the festivities of Moors and EL RÀFOL DE SALEM cavalry; another beautiful detail of the Christians. fountain. November 11: Feast of Saint Martin, the Population: 460 hab. village goes in pilgrimage to the hermitage EL RÀFOL DE SALEM Civil heritage to bless and eat the typical cakes of San Municipal area: 4,39 km2 In the historic center the typical Martín. Altitude: 298 m. singlefamily town houses with two or three December 8 and Christmas parties: Demonym: rafolí, rafolina floors predominate. We find constructions Christmas Market Town Hall Phone no.: 96 281 30 72 of very varied styles and epochs, among Web: www.rafoldesalem.es which are some Renaissance facades in the EXCURSIONS Plaza de los Santos Juanes (S.XVII), some It is part of itinerary no. 3 of the routes E-mail: [email protected] facades of The Street Nueva or the Christ through the Vall d’Albaida MONUMENTS of the Faith, such as the Baroque one with SL-CV 39: Umbría de (5km 1h Church of Our Lady of Angels Historic center a sundial and with the inscription “Year 30min) A new building built between 1748-1760, The historic part of the municipality 1709” or that of the modernist house of PR-CV 172: Quatretonda mountaing range after the Montesa earthquake, on the consists the poet Alberola (S.XIX) , among others. (18km 4h) remains of the ancient Muslim mosque and of streets with typical houses characteristic In the surroundings of the village we can Other excursions: the Christian temple of 1535. The current of Mediterranean architecture, houses of find numerous agricultural constructions • Buscarró’s Mountain building is neoclassical in style and features such as stockyards and properties, among labriegos and potters, mainly decorated • Refrigerator of the Talaia a Latin cross floor plan. Inside, it retains a which stands out the Casa de la Bastida, • The Old Fountain with forging balconies, worked wooden canvas of San Blas and San Francisco from an old cattle stockyards restored as a • The stockyards of Quatretonda doors, artistic aldabas, devotional ceilings, the eighteenth century and a large display nature classroom and mountain lodge and • La Bastida sundials and roof overhangs adorned with of religious goldsmithing. The last works the Heredad de Pere, an old farmhouse • The Pla dels Engolidors painted ceramic bricks. The central point have constituted a pictorial reform of the recovered as a rural house and artisan • Crosses of the municipality is made up of the Town Hall Square, where interior of the temple. cheese factory. • Paths of l’Escaló, Cossis, l’Avenc, les the town building stands. The tourist can caigudes de Pinet and the ravine of the start from there the tour to reach the most Hermitage of San Blas FESTIVITIES rabbits. emblematic streets, streets in memory of A building originating in the fifteenth February 2nd: La Candelaria. the old potters, squares and streets that century erected following the discovery Second weekend of May: feast of Nou LOCAL PRODUCTS house gardening, religious images and Street in honor of Our Lady of the • Agricultural products valuable ancient pieces. Homeless, where the traditional Dance of • Oil, wine, honey and cheese Quatretonda is danced. • Cold meat Last weekend of June: feast of San Pere or bulls. Highlights the entrance of bulls, the TELEPHONES OF INTEREST release of bulls and little cows through the Quatretonda Town Hall: 96 226 45 71 streets. Public Library: 96 226 42 06 Last week of August: Cultural Week Medieval market and typical artisanal products of Quatretonda. First weekend of September: patron saint festivities or September, with artistic Paper floats. Around October 21: Villa Day, anniversary feast of the founding of the village of Quatretonda. And since 2018 are Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 98 | 99 of the image of San Blas in 1430 and C/ Gerreria, 24 RUGAT renovated in the following centuries. From 46843 El Ràfol de Salem there, you can see a panoramic view of Tel.: 96 281 30 72 the municipality and the region. The last Hours: Arrange visit by phone restoration of the building took place in Population: 180 hab. 1981 and its state of conservation remains FESTIVITIES Municipal area: 3,1 km2 optimal. In the same environment, there is First weekend of February: festivities RUGAT Calvary. A place of worship dating back to in honor of San Blas, with the “Porrat”, Altitude: 300 m. the years 1879-1889. It is a cross road of blessing and spreading bread to the Demonym: rugatí, rugatina buildings decorated by Valencian tiles. neighborhood. Town Hall Phone no.: 96 281 30 10 Week of August 6: patron saint festivities Web: www.rugat.es dedicated to St. Thomas, the Divine Saviour, Washing place E-mail: [email protected] It is located at the entrance of the village. It the Divine Aurora and the Divine Shepherd. has a stack of 9.4 m in length by 2 wide. It September 21: The miracle in honor of the is supplied with the water from the mother Divine Savior. ditch of the Cantal Fountain. It was formerly uncovered, but in 1916 the neighbours EXCURSIONS paid for the cover. On the facade, there is PR-CV 213: Beniatjar – El Ràfol de Salem- a plaque with a ceramic panel illustrating Benicadell’s top (15,6 km 6h) MONUMENTS Parish church of Our Lady of Grace several women washing. An activity that Other excursions: Historic Centre It is neoclassical in the early nineteenth continued to live until the late 90s. • Hermitage of San Blas (camping area very Clearly linked to agricultural and livestock century. Inside stands the political close) activities. altarpiece of 12 tables attributed to Ribera, Abajo Mill • The mill of Baix a Christ of the sixteenth century and an oil The site of the mill is moorish-era, but the • Carrascalet recreation area, with Rugat Palace painting of the school of Juan de Juanes. casal molinar dates from the eighteenth paelleros and playground With a simple structure, with Arabic tile roof Outside a devotional ceiling of Our Lady of century and was built on the initiative It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the Vall and Freemasonry walls, it is inhabited and Grace. of the lord of the Ràfol and the Hoya de d’Albaida routes in very good condition. Salem, the Marquis of Bèlgida. This mill was acquired and rehabilitated by the city LOCAL PRODUCTS council in 2000-2001. It currently works for • Manufacture of tiles and bricks in centers the enjoyment of the many schoolchildren where jugs were previously made and general public who visit it. • Oil • Agricultural products MUSEUMS Oil Museum: El Salvador oil press The old mill is testament to old trades, now recovered in the form of an ethnographic museum. A museum collection that explains step by step and illustrated as was the production of olive oil in the old. It is the only museum of these characteristics in the region of Vall d’Albaida. Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 100 | 101

FESTIVITIES SALEM Around January 17: St. Antonio Abad June 25: Corpus Christi Population: 435 hab. Last week of July: festivities dedicated to Municipal area: 8,6 km2 San Bernardino, with parades, festivals, SALEM Altitude: 350 m. cordà and processions. Demonym: salemer, salemera EXCURSIONS Town Hall Phone no.: 96 281 33 31 It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the routes Web: www.salem.es through the Vall d’Albaida. E-mail: [email protected] SL-CV 44: pathway of the sources of Rugat (2,7 km 1h 50min). MONUMENTS Other excursions: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel be enriched with new ornaments, some of • The ravine of the sources The presbytery occupies the site of the old which came from outside. For example, the • The Rugat mill Islamic mosque, converted into a church in canvas of St. Thomas of Villanueva, which Jaume I route: Moorish path of the Vall 1521, seat of vicarage in 1534 and parish came from the convent of the Augustines d’Albaida seat in 1600. After the expulsion of the of Xativa (June 26, 1784) or the Rococo Moors in 1609, the repopulators dedicated altarpiece of San Vicente Ferrer, which the LOCAL PRODUCTS it to Santa Maria del Rosal in 1611 and to Marquises of Bélgida -baroness of • Agricultural products St. Michael the Archangel in 1694. Salembrought to La Seu de Valencia, where they had retired it as obsolete (1790). The The Moorish building was replaced in the continuation of the church by the academic years 1720-1728 approximately, by a new architect Fray Vicent Cuenca, director of presbytery, with the cruiser and the first the works of La Seu de Xativa, marked the two side chapels of the nave. In the mid- completion of the nave (1816-1821), with 18th century the bell tower was built at the the six side chapels, the austere base of foot of the nave. Throughout the 17th and adintelada door that we see now, and the 18th centuries, the temple did not cease to buttresses that separate. Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 102 | 103

Annexes to the church are the bell tower, Mill of the Fountain of the Cantal compacted the winter snow and, when FESTIVITIES the work of the mid-XVIII century, and the It is a house of great place, which was summer came, they sold it in Xativa or in January 17: St. Antonio Abad. body of bells, decorated by an austere owned by the Marquises of B.Lgida, the the Ribera del Júcar. Behind them used to Second week of July: Moors and Christians decoration of smooth Doric pilasters.. Bellvís, last lords of the barony of the Hoya be some foreign capitalist, who paid the day festivities and feast of the Fadrins of Our de Salem. A raft allowed the vertical well laborers to collect the snow and organized Lady of the Rosary and the Divine Aurora. Castle of the Barcella to be filled, from where the press-pressure the distribution of the product. September: Patronal festivities, festivities Of the XII century, which occupies the water fell on one or two sets of teeth that of the Miracle of St. Miguel: on the first top or grinding wheel of the elevation were: one for wheat and the other for corn. In Salem (Hoya de Salem) term, six wells or day the Christ of Peace, the second day the of the land of the place of Barcella. The Although only one tooth worked recently, it cavas would formerly be known, some of Miracle and the third day St. Roque. trees were called Almaraién, that is, hisn stopped grinding for good in 1962. which are still conserved, among well-made 29 September: Feast of the patron saint of Al-Marsyyn, castles of the Two Bonfires fridges and simple holes: the fridge of the the people, St. Miguel. or the Two Signs of Fire, according to the Mill bridge Castellet (or the Barcella), the Pajar, the archaeologists of the Centre for Answering On the very side of the mill there is a one of the Frontó (or miguel ‘de Peronés’), EXCURSIONS Studies who have analyzed it carefully. All bridge, the Mill Bridge, with picturesque that of the Camino de Castellón, the It is part of itinerary No. 4 of the routes fragments of medieval ceramics collected invoice: a half-point arch through which Camino del Puerto (or uncle ‘Pepe’) and the through the Vall d’Albaida. on the surface around the castle, give a you cross the ravine of the cantal fountain. hole of the pla de la Sith (or the Some of SL-CV 122: Trail of the Salem’s nevaters to Muslim chronology, belonging to the XII-XIII It is one of the old bridges (probably of the them are filled in, the rest have been eaten, Barcella (5,3 km 2h 30min) centuries. eighteenth century, like the mill) of greatest photographed and carefully catalogued SL-CV 140: The inheritance of the Muslim landscape spell of the entire Vall d’Albaida. by experts. The best known and visited are irrigation of the source and the Elca raft Hydraulic heritage the large fridges of the Castellet (or the (3.6 km 1h 30min) Salem’s hydraulic heritage is well Fountain and washing place of Poet Bercella) and the Paller, which make up the Other excursions: represented by ditches, water mines, rafts, A the other part of the village, in the route of the neveros trail from Salem to • Camping area and recreational area arcades and mills. The most interesting ravine of the Fountain, are located other Bercella (SL-CV 122). of the fountain of Elca (Roman raft and element is undoubtedly the elca raft, interesting elements of the rich hydraulic alcabor) known as the Roman raft, whose work heritage of Salem: the fountain and the Sundial • Source of La Barcella and Castellet is characterized by being the typical washing machine of the Poet, the well of Work of the Joan Olivares quadrant, located • Ravine of the Caves Hispanic-Muslim water mine, excavated in the Fountain of the People or the irrigation in the Parque de los Algarrobos. • Cave del Frontó and of La Sima the rock until it captures the birth (40 m rafts of the ravine, among others. Most of • Cantal Source and Salem Mill tunnel), with three vents or vertical wells these elements date from Moorish times Town Hall that facilitate its access to the interior and (X to 16th centuries), but there are many It occupies the old lot of the House of LOCAL PRODUCTS scrubbing operations. The raft from which remades with modern times, such as the the Lordship, and presents elements • Fruit the water was drawn is unused since the New Raft, or contemporary. The current characteristic of traditional architecture • Knitwear collapses of the deluge of 1884. In its time washer, for example, date 1969. such as iron forging bars. • Textile products it basically fulfilled the function of providing • Beverage packaging irrigation water to the orchards of the Refrigerators Devotional ceiling lights Islamic farmhouses of Benigerví (the houses The fridges, so important in the XVII-XIX A series of ceramic panels with devotional TELEPHONES OF INTEREST of Monxereví) and Elca (the houses of Elca). centuries. These are monumental stone motifs from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Town Hall Phone: 96 281 33 31 Today there is a route showing the constructions, wells dug in the mountains, centuries stand out from the historic center hydraulic richness of the Salem Hoya: The reinforced and covered in some cases, of the municipality. Inheritance of Muslim Irrigation: The Source which served the speculative interests of and Raft of Elca (SL-CV 140). ice traders. The neveros were day laborers or salem smugglers who collected and Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 104 | 105

SEMPERE TERRATEIG

Population: 35 hab. SEMPERE Municipal area: 3,8 km2 Altitude: 250 m. Demonym: santperenc, santperenca Town Hall Phone no.: 96 229 30 54 Population: 280 hab. TERRATEIG E-mail: [email protected] Municipal area: 6,3 km2 century, with the legend of the three sisters Altitude: 250 m. MONUMENTS not maridadas. Demonym: terrategí, terrategina Parish Church of San Pedro Cellar and patio of the rural house El Of the eighteenth century, it is neoclassical Town Hall Phone no.: 96 288 70 76 Caseron style. This temple shows a five-stage nave Web: www.terrateig.es From the 18th century, with the legend of covered by a cannon vault on pilasters that the three unmarried sisters. E-mail: [email protected] make buttresses. Highlights include the cap on the cruiser with paintings alluding to the FESTIVITIES Basilica of San Pietro of Rome, using the About February 3rd: Patron saint festivities technique of the trapdoor (which deceives of San Blas, with bonfires, walkways, the eye, using perspective and depth), MONUMENTS procession and distribution of bread rolls. the lintelated door and the bell tower of Church of San Juan Bautista Devotional ceramic panel two bodies. This church maintains a close Its construction dates from the eighteenth On the streets of Terrateig is a devotional EXCURSIONS relationship with the Vatican of Rome. century, although it was redecorated in ceramic panel dedicated to San Vicente It is part of itinerary No. 2 of the routes neoclassical style in the first half of the Ferrer. through the Vall blanca. Historic Center nineteenth century. • Excursions through the Dam of Bellús on Highlights the civil houses of the eighteenth Riu Rau the bank of the Albaida River. century and St. Peter’s Square in a Palace The Riu Rau, located in Casa Llinares, • Route of the 4 villages of the River trapezoidal way. Winery and patio of the Originally built in the thirteenth century, Morenet, is a sample of popular (Alfarrasí, Benissuera, Sempere and rural house El Caserón Of the eighteenth today it is restored. architecture. Guadasséquies) Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region 106 | 107

Hermitage of San Vicente Ferrer One of the barons of Terrateig decided to perpetuate the memory of Saint Vincent by building this hermitage in 1410. The first stone was laid on April 7, 1883.

Washing place It supplies the water from the birth of the Micairent Fountain of Montitxelvo.

FESTIVITIES Near the following Monday of Easter: Festivities dedicated to San Vicente Ferrer, with passageways, processions, verbenas and pilgrimage to the hermitage.

EXCURSIONS • Sources: San Vicente Ferrer, Refrigerator, Llaunaix, Llop i Vidal • Recreation area of Pla de les Fontetes • Tossal del Morquí • Moorish ravine of l’Arcà It is part of itinerary no. 4 of the Vall d’Albaida routes..

LOCAL PRODUCTS • Agricultural products 108 | 109

The Vall d’Albaida in 96 hours 110 | 111 Guía turística de la Vall d’Albaida

The Vall d’Albaida in 96 horas The Vall d’Albaida in 24 horas Enjoy it with five senses Bocairent: the colour of the history

Traveling is a pleasure and becoming a It is an exciting itinerary that covers 6 Witness to the existence of two cultures: municipalities of great historical, cultural, medieval and muslim. traveler is an adventure. There are many 1:00 p.m. Church of the Assumption. It natural and artistic value. Through this reasons to start a journey: discover the dates from the XVI century and brings temporalization we intend that the traveler 10:00 a.m. Medieval quarter. Declared an historical-cultural heritage, meeting new together the main characteristics of knows all the heritage and discovers a Artistic-Historical Site, it has a peculiar people, enjoying the landscapes, the Valencian art from the Gothic to the surroundings, the gastronomy, the aroma, unique experience never lived until now. layout of streets in the purest Arabian style, stairs carved into the rock, fountains, nineteenth century. Depending on the time the taste, the party ... Or reunite with all of of year, you can eat at the restaurants We have chosen these municipalities small squares and alleys. When walking them. of the municipality and try the exquisite because, in addition to offering a greater through the quarter you have to sharpen local cuisine or choose the Mariola number of tourist resources, they have a all the senses so as not to miss any detail, Each of the 34 municipalities that make campsite, where in addition to eating at tourist guide that enriches the visit. In this so it is recommended, for example, to pay up the Vall d’Albaida deserve a mandatory the restaurant in contact with nature, you sense, for the realization it will be convenient attention in both parts of the streets and stop, but many times time limits our tourist can do a little exercise in the surroundings to arrange the guided visits, either in perceive the difference between the two plans. For this reason we suggest a smaller to the Mariola fountain and the Mariola the town halls or in specialized tourist cultures. version of the region, although, of course, a Mountain range sites. This environment is a stop in the rest of towns would be pending. companies. 11:30 a.m. Bullring. It is the oldest in the paradise for lovers of hiking. After breathing Even though it would take a month to fully the pure and fresh air of the mountains, The Vall in 96 horas Valencian Community and is carved out of enjoy the region, we have tried to gather you can continue the visit towards: the essence of the region prioritizing the 1st day: Bocairent (24 h) rock in 1843. 2nd day: Ontinyent (48 h) municipalities that stand out for their 4:30 p.m. The Moorish caves. It is a group 3rd day: Albaida and Aielo de Malferit (72 h) 12:00 p.m. Museum of Archeology (96 history, culture, nature and art. of artificial caves with window-shaped 4th day: Llutxent and Otos (96 h) 290 50 62). It displays a large sample of objects dated between the Upper Paleolithic holes (fifty in total) that they give access and the Middle Ages, all found in the to as many dependencies. Caving can be municipality. Parish Museum in the Church practiced in the interior of the mountain. of the Assumption. 112 | 113 Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

6:00 p.m. The San Blas ice cave. Old snow The Vall d’Albaida in 48 horas deposit located in the northern part of the medieval quarter, inside which six A walk around Ontinyent illustrative panels with the history of ice and snow are exposed. The textile capital and the bridge to the 11:30 a.m. Church and bell tower of 7:00 p.m. The cave monastery: old tourist industry. Saint María. The church, which dates underground convent carved out of the from the 14th to the 17th centuries, rock. In addition, in this municipality the Continuing our trip, there is nothing occupies the place where, after the traveler can hire multi-adventure activities: better than approaching Ontinyent, the Christian occupation, a first temple was balloon rides, guided tours, hiking trails, capital of the region, and strolling through built, probably on the Islamic mosque. It cycle routes or horse riding activities, the streets of the medieval town and highlights the Renaissance door and inside among others. The Town Hall Square stands discovering: the three Gothic turns, José Segrelles’ out, a good place to have a drink in the oils and Mariano Benlliure’s sculptures. cafes and bars located inside the caves. 10:00 a.m. The Vila. Declared National The bell tower, considered the highest Artistic-Historical Site in 1974, it preserves in the Valencian Community, is one of one of the most representative medieval the symbolic references and identifiers ensembles in the Valencian lands, of the city. As an adjoining room we find qualitatively and quantitatively. With a walk the Chapel of La Purísima, from the 17th through its narrow alleys and alleys we century. will discover its charms. For lovers of civil buildings, a visit to the palaces and stately 1:00 p.m. Archaeological Museum of homes is recommended: Palau de la Vila, Ontinyent and the Vall d’Albaida (MAOVA) Casa del Cosell or old Town Hall, Palace of (96 291 19 55). Attached to the medieval the Torrefiel’s Count, Puig’s House, Palace wall, it occupies the premises that belonged of the Barons of Saint Bárbara, etc. to the old almudín -place where wheat was stored- and courthouses of the town of Ontinyent, at the same foot of Saint María’s church. Inside you can see a room dedicated 114 | 115 Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region to Prehistory, another from Ibero-Roman The Vall d’Albaida on 48 horas times and finally a medieval one. To calm hunger it is recommended to try Albaida and Alielo de the typical and traditional sausages in the Malferit restaurants of the municipality or to have a picnic in the area of Pou Clar, where a Albaida: A paradise between mountains. 11:30 a.m. Palace of the Milà and Aragó. good bath is recommended in summer. And It takes a whole day to enjoy Albaida’s Formed by three towers: the one of to complete the visit, you can take a walk interesting tourist offer, but it is definitely Poniente, the Central one and the Palacial along the Clariano River and observe the worth visiting: Tower. Built at the end of the XV century two bridges with the industrial chimneys, (1471-1477) it had the appearance of a as well as taste the exquisite sweets of this 10:00 h. a.m. Square of the Villa and noble residence and attached to the main town. historical centre: it is part of the 15th access to the walled space. International As optional activities, you can continue century walled enclosure which is still Puppet Museum (96 239 01 86). It hiking or even visit the winery facilities and accessed through the Villa gate. In the offers the possibility of holding a puppet do a wine tasting both in the municipality of square lies the church of Saint María of workshop for children. Ontinyent and in Fontanars. the Asunción, the back part of the Milà and Aragó palace, the access to the If the traveler wants to complete the José Segrelles House Museum and the visit with the museum offer presented by Vallcaneda house. You can also visit La Albaida, it is recommended to visit the José Muralla, an old defensive structure, and the Segrelles House-Museum (96 239 01 88) Watchtower, the gateway to the town. and the Museum of Dioramas and Nativity scenes (96 239 01 86). After visiting this 10:30 a.m. Church of Saint María of the complete artistic and museum exhibition, Asunción, XVI-XVII centuries. Spectacular it is recommended to buy the typical Valencian Gothic style religious building, fondant nuts of the town. In addition, built between 1592 and 1621, and restored the municipality has a wide variety of in 1830. The square-shaped bell tower that restaurants to satisfy the demands of our used to be the tower of surveillance until palates. the auction was added in the mid-19th century. 116 | 117 Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Aielo de Malferit: Hometown of Nino Bravo by his family, as well as a large quantity The Vall d’Albaida in 96 horas - Nino Bravo Museum of audiovisual and graphic material. This After visiting the municipality of Albaida we temple offers the possibility of reuniting Llutxent and Otos must stop at Aielo de Malferit to see first with the music of Nino Bravo and reliving hand all the monuments that surround it. sensations and experiences lived by the singer. Llutxent, Arab fortress. appreciate the spectacular panoramic view 4:00 p.m. Historical centre: Church of San Llutxent and the miracle of the Corporales. of the mountains and the Xiu castle (Arab Pedro Apóstol, Hospital of the Beneficencia, fortress from the Almohad period built Carmen’s Gate, Arch’s bridge and Down The traveler cannot forget to stop at in the 12th century (located on the Pinet Bridge. Llutxent, an old access road from the coast road), which had the function of monitoring where you can contemplate and visit its the transit of troops from the coast to the 5:00 p.m. Palace of the Marquises of magnificent monuments. interior. Malferit. Probably dates from the XV century, and with the arrival of the lords 10:00 a.m. Corpus Christi Convent, it is 12:30 p.m. Palace-Castle Built by the Pròxita of Malferit, it was a habitual residence a set of buildings from various periods between the 13th and 14th centuries on during the XVII century. It was remodeled and styles. The square cloister of the 18th an old Arab fortress, it is in the Valencian in the XVIII century by los Roca. Later, with century stands out, with five semicircular Gothic style. los Mercader, it underwent a definitive arches. The Corpus Christi church, in transformation at the end of the XIX the Mediterranean Gothic style (15th 1:30 p.m. Parish Church of the Assumption. century, offering the current neoclassical century), was declared a national historical Built in the XIX century (1868), which appearance. monument in 1982. guards the Cross of the XVI century Procession and the icon of the Blessed Face. 5:30 p.m. Liquor store. Liquor factory 11:30 a.m. Hermitage of Our Lady of At this point, the traveler can take a break founded in 1880 that during the end of the Consolation: building built in 1772 by a and satisfy hunger in Llutxent restaurants, 19th century knew the period of splendor, Catalan couple (Serra-Rius). Inside is the and enjoy grilled meat and equestrian since it won several awards and became Corporales Miracle, whose legend tells that activities or continue the trip to the last a supplier to the Royal Household. The it took place in 1239 during the reconquest. town, Otos, to eat in a privileged place factory is still active today. The best product All the monuments located there belong to overlooking the Benicadell. is kola-coca liquor, which was the origin of the Diputación de Valencia.The traveler can coca-cola. If you are interested in local and artisan products, we recommend a visit to the glass factories and the wicker basket artisan workshops. The purchase of these artisan products are the souvenirs that cannot be missing in any house..

6:00 p.m. Nino Bravo Museum. It is a space dedicated to keeping alive the memory of an artist who continues to awaken feelings, passions and memories with his voice. It includes an exhaustive representation of all his personal and professional objects ceded 118 | 119 Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Otos Town of the sundials. Benicadell viewpoint The last stop on this journey is Otos, a quiet, welcoming and innovative place that will surprise us with the cultural tourist route of Sundials. The uniqueness and originality lies in the creation of 8 newly created Sundials, which integrates elements typical of the land such as iron, steel, mud or marble, among others, and each of them symbolizes an ancient trade or a different theme.

4:00 p.m. Route of the sundials. It is a tourist route that runs through the entire town, with the sundials as a common thread, as a metaphor for the passage of time. In it the traveler will discover the operation of each one of them. In addition, if the weather is good, we can see the rest of the heritage buildings that the town has.

6:00 p.m. Palace of the Otos marquis, a building built in the 18th century with a very elegant and successful decoration. Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, whose interior deserves special attention decoration based on decorated plaster. Hermitage of Our Lady of Sorrows, from the late 18th century.

To round off this route, we recommend a walk through the Benicadell’s Mountain range and delight the view with the magnificent panoramic views of this emblematic mountain. In addition, lovers of hiking cannot miss the opportunity to walk through the mountains to the Castle of Carbonera in Beniatjar, a treasure that is worthwhile. 120 | 121

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Trekking Through the heart of the valley Benicadell

La Vall d’Albaida is surrounded by several year on the web www.valldalbaida.com, Benicadell is the most emblematic with little vegetation, and by the Ombría mountain ranges with which it maintains within the section on hiking trails. mountain range for the “Valldalbaidins”, a located in the Vall d’Albaida, with much a close relationship. These mountains, To facilitate and expedite the reference and a mandatory visit when you richer and leafy vegetation. Benicadell has in addition to being an ideal setting for REGISTRATION procedures, a form has are in Vall d’Albaida. With an altitude of been damaged by the wave of fires that practicing sports, are a great source of been enabled where you must indicate all 1104 meters it is the highest mountain of plague us every summer and which have natural, botanical and heritage resources the data per participant on each of the the region and a meeting point with a very significantly affected its forest wealth. There that can be enjoyed on the numerous trails routes to be taken unique natural space. Its toponymic origin are many manifestations that testify to the marked by its domains. derives from the Arabic “Peña Cadiella” close relationship between this mountain SIGNALING which was already used in the “Cantar del range and man, thus it is easy to find Must take into account: The GR, PR and SL are the approved trails mio cid” different snow pits, constructions for the • Follow the indicated paths. that are governed by a International collection and channeling of waters from • It is forbidden to light a fire and free signaling regulations that classify them at In reality, Benicadell is the extension of the Roman and Arab times, archaeological camping. European level. The rest of the trails are the Covalta Mountain range, separated sites, dry stone walls, watchtowers, castles • Deposit trash in containers. enabled by the municipalities. from it by the “Puerto de Albaida” and and other resources made at different • Respect nature and avoid making harmful which has continuity towards the Agullent times and historical times. sounds for native fauna. GR - Long-distance trails: Mountain range and the town of Ontinyent. • Bring water, appropriate clothes and itinerary of more than 50 km. In the opposite direction, that is, towards The trails that we find in this section are shoes, and of course, a camera of photos. PR - Short-distance trails: the region of La Safor, Benicadell reaches the following: itinerary from 10 to 50 km. the Mountain range. The alignment SL-CV 10: Road from Otos Mountain range Every year an extensive hiking program SL - Local trails: of the Benicadell’s Mountain range has to the ravine of La Mata is developed through the Vall d’Albaida itinerary of less than 10km. conditioned the weather and fundamentally SL-CV 43: Aielo de Rugat mountain ranges with more than 24 guided the vegetation found in it, clearly SL-CV 44: Rugat Trail green routes that run from September to distinguishing two areas that also belong to SL-CV 83: La Creueta viewpoint December. Consult the program for each two different regions, such as; “La solana” SL-CV 84: Water Route in the Comtat region, very degraded and

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SL-CV 118: Route of the Castle and other Mariola Mountain range Jewels of Rural Heritage del Patrimonio This mythical mountain range, a singular well known everywhere. Thyme, rosemary, The trails that we find in this section are Rural place and one of the longest tradition savory, horehound or sage, among others, the following: SL-CV 122: Trail of the Nevaters in Valencian hiking, extends its domains are present and used for medicinal and GR 7: stage: Venta Boquilla- Alcoi, 31 SL-CV 140: The heritage of the Muslim through three different regions: the Vall aromatic uses. It also highlights the (Ontinyent) and 32 (Bocairent) irrigation - Salem d’Albaida, the Comtat and l’Alcoià. It has presence of holm oaks, pine forests and the PR CV 4: Banyeres. Route of the Birth of the PR–CV 213: Beniatjar - El Ràfol de Salem - recently been declared a natural park southernmost yew forest in Europe. Vinalopó River Benicadell’s top and more than half of its protected area PR-CV 122: Ravine of the Tarongers, Old PR–CV 222: Trail of the Benicadell’s top and belongs to the Villa of Bocairent. It has a There are marked trails that will take us road from Ontinyent to Bocairent snow cave width of about 5 km and a total extension to the main heritage resources that we PR-CV 306: Cinquantenari trail: Bocairent - PR–CV 390: Route through the Penyes of about 30 km and has the Montcabrer find in it, such as the numerous snow pits, Sant Crist route Albes (1389 m), the Contador (1232 m) and the witnesses to the ancient snow trade so PR-CV 370: The Portín of Alfafara. Bocairent Mariola’s top (1158 m) as the most notable widespread in these regions, but also to Water Route Benicadell’s Ombria thematic routes. peaks. hermitages, farmhouses or snowdrifts. Protected landscape: • Green Route: Salem - Planisses House Many rivers start in this mountain range, We recommend a visit to the most • Blue Route: Beniatjar - Benicadell’s top which has traditionally been known for important snow pits in Mariola: Ice cave of • Red Route: Otos - Carbonera Castle - the abundance of water and for the many l’habitació, Arched or Big Ice cave, little Ice Morró’s top sources it has. Thus the Vinalopó, Agres, cave of the Buitre -vulture- and lastly Ice • Yellow Route: Bèlgida - Carrícola - Font Serpis and Clariano rivers begin the race cave of Don Miguel Freda that will lead them to the Mediterranean • Purple Route: Castelló de Rugat - Ràfol de Sea here. Salem - Old forest nursery • Brown Route: Albaida - Atzeneta d’Albaida The most characteristic feature of the - Humanized Landscape Mariola Mountain range is the diversity and • Orange Route: Puerto de Albaida - richness of its aromatic plants that make it Benicadell’s top 126 | 127 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Grossa Mountain range La Umbría Mountain range

Sierra Grossa is a long and wide mountain The trails that we find in this section are This mountain range has its origin in The trails that we find in this section are range that acts as a natural barrier the following: and advances towards the sea in a the following: between the Vall d’Albaida and the northeast direction. The mountain range neighboring region of La Costera. Its SL-CV 11: Umbría trail enters the Vall d’Albaida and despite having SL-CV 9: Trail of the Castellar extension is considerable although the PR–CV 125: La Solana trail a clear structural unit, it receives different SL-CV 19: Gamellons trail heights are rather moderate with peaks PR–CV 306: Cinquantenari trail names depending on the population PR–CV 121: Ontinyent - trail of the enginiers that do not exceed 900 m. The beginning of where we are, as it is known as Replana - Agullent - Covalta the mountain range is found in the Higuera del Moro, Ombria de Fontanars, Pinós, PR–CV 122: Ravine of the tarongers, old source, it runs along the Vall d’Albaida Gamellons, Ombria de Ponce, Félix’s top, road from Ontinyent to Bocairent parallel to the Umbría Mountain range Serreta, Torrater, Filosa, Agullent Mountain PR–CV 134: Agullent - Agres until it reaches the massif of Buscaró- range, Covalta ... depending on whether it PR–CV 135: Trail of l’Assagador – Agullent Montdúver, in the neighboring region of is named by the inhabitants of Fontanars, La Safor. Successions of summits and those of Ontinyent, Albaida or Agullent. ravines and the passage of the Albaida river that crosses the mountains through The heights are not considerable having as l’Estret de les Aigües (Bellús), are the main a highlight the Covalta with 890 m.. geomorphological characteristics.

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Bicycle touring Buscarró Mountain range Itinerary 1

Located in the eastern area of the Grossa The trails that we find in this section are Start: C/Carril - Santa María bridge / separation between the terms of Ontinyent Mountain range, it is a place of union of the following: Distance: 64 km and Fontanars dels Alforins is established the Betic and Iberian alignments with Through the Umbría Mountain range, the and which closes this valley to the west. a notable presence of faults caused by SL-CV 39: trail of the Ombria de Torrella. source of Gamellons, El Pla dels Alforins the karst properties of the terrain. The PR-CV 172: Quatretonda mountain range. and the Grossa Mountain range The itinerary allows us to discover ancient Quatretonda chasm and the chasm GR-236: Route of the Monasteries (Llutxent trees and some of the few hills and peaks are good examples with depths of 185 and and Pinet). (From Ontinyent to Ontinyent passing that are covered by magnificent pine 113 m. respectively. The most important through Fontanars dels Alforins). forests. We will visit plains and corners that heights are the Hedra’s top (672 m) and together with wells, recreational areas La Mola (500 m). The original state of the This itinerary will allow us to enjoy the and spaces of open horizons lead us to Quatretonda mountain range was modified westernmost part of the Vall d’Albaida, a Fontanars dels Alforins. by the fires suffered in the 60s and 70s, territory that is physically a border and an despite this, it remains an ideal space for area of passage to the Castellana plateau. The final section of the route, in the hiking and contact with nature. Today the This fact is reflected in the physiography westernmost part of the Grossa Mountain old holm oak, pine and oak forests have and in the typical landscape features range, allows us to discover some forest been replaced by abundant bushes, with of the plain, mainly in the municipality stands mainly of pines, although if we look thyme, rosemary and gorse as protagonists. of Fontanars dels Alforins. Near this closely at holm oaks, in a very good state of We also have the presence of some pines population, environments dominated by conservation. Finally, already in Ontinyent and a micro-reserve of flora located in the rain-fed crops are shown among areas of term, we will be able to observe the shadow of the mountains with endemic trees that occasionally form brambles, recovery of our Mediterranean vegetation species very difficult to find elsewhere. reminding us of the English countryside. after the terrifying fire of 1994. From any point of the Grossa mountain range The extraction of high quality marble in this Along the first sector of the itinerary we will there are exceptional panoramic views mountain range stands out. discover the ravines of the Ontinyent and over the Vall d’Albaida and also over the Clariano rivers, as well as different estates neighboring region of La Costera. and summer houses. The dry land with its vineyards, olive trees and different fruit The view of the hermitage of San Esteve, trees make up an excellent agricultural located on a exceptional site, it closes this landscape in the center of the Vall itinerary that through a gentle descent d’Albaida, surrounded by the mountainous ends in the heart of the town of Ontinyent. alignments of the Grossa Mountain range Through the old bridge we enter one of to the north and the Umbría Mountain the most important civil and religious range to the south. Through old roads monumental complexes in the Valencian such as the path of the Engineers or that Community. of Gamellons we will ascend until we reach the southernmost part of the highlands of the region, where we will find l’escaló natural dels Cabeços,a point on which the 130 | 131 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Bicycle touring Itinerary 2

Start: C/Ontinyent Alfarrasí, Benissuera, Sant Pere (the Among these cultivated lands of vineyards, the Vall par excellence. As the valldalbaidí Distance: 52.5 km smallest town in the province of Valencia) olive, almond, carob, and also orange poet David Mira says well, “La Vall becomes The Heart of the Vall d’Albaida: Bellús or Bellús, while the capital of the route, and other fruit trees, we will discover mountain range in Benicadell”, in the Reservoir and banks of the Clariano and l´Olleria and neighboring Aielo de Malferit farmhouses (like that of Torrella), towns of the barony of Llutxent - especially Albaida rivers offer us the most cosmopolitan face and barnyards, weirs, chasms (like those in Quatretonda - it is known as Cerro de industrialized, with winemaking, liquor or of Quatretonda), convents (like that of Mediodía, while the towns closest to its (From Montaverner to Montaverner, glass manufacturing as more traditional Llutxent) and hermitages. shadow, they simply call it Peña. With the passing through Aielo de Malferit, l’Olleria, productive elements. Later we will descend to the limits of the permission of Mariola, the most endearing, Bellús, Guadasséquies, Sant Pere, Alfarrasí neighboring regions of La Costera and La emblematic and esteemed mountain by and Benissuera). Itinerary 3 Safor at the foot of the Buscarró and we most of the residents of the region. This itinerary takes us to the lowest levels will be surprised by the plant presence in the region, lands bathed by the Clariano of the cork oak forests of the mountains Benicadell is, therefore, the main point of Start: Calvary Convent of San Francisco and Albaida rivers, which join together (unique in the Vall d’Albaida), which are reference for the longest itinerary in this Distance: 65.5 km shortly before leaving the Vall d’Albaida located between Llutxent and Pinet. From publication. The Albaida road route begins La Solana: the Baronia of Llutxent, the region behind. They are, therefore, the most this same area we will have the privilege of and, after crossing the towns of its historic road to the Quatretonda Mountain range, fertile lands, but also due to their location, the vision of the region of La Safor, framed marquessate, one reaches the easternmost the Buscaró, the Bassa del Surar and the the most affected by infrastructure (it is the by the Mediterranean Sea. There will also physical limits of the mountain range, Marxuquera Mountain range. only itinerary that crosses a highway). be plenty of unique trees on this route, which gives its name to Benicadell. They In the last part of the journey, the radical such as elm and oak, or stretches of ravines run and run for miles between boulders, (From Benigànim to La Pobla del Duc transformation of the landscape derived that show ponds and cavities, among lush beyond the port and the Salem basin. Along passing through Quatretonda, Pinet, from the construction of the Bellús dam riverside vegetation. a welcoming shade, full of fountains and Llutxent and Benicolet) stands out. It is the only eco-route in the springs that make life in the orchards and This itinerary is in all probability the one Vall d’Albaida that does not travel through towns possible down the land, at the same that will take many people to the most Itinerary 4 the mountains, which makes it the most time that they make up emblematic ravines unknown places in the region. They are the affordable route for those who decide to and rivers in the region. lands located further to the east: where it Start: C/ Castelló de Rugat approach the region either by bicycle or on Precisely in the shadow of the great rains the most, since the sea is present at Distance: 75 km foot. But the smooth flow of the itinerary mountain some of the smallest urban a short distance. Along its almost 66 km Through the Umbría, to the Benicadell’s between white loamy lands and riverbanks, nuclei of the region: Atzeneta d´Albaida, El route, we will discover the urban centers of cave does not stop having a great charm, Palomar, Carrícola, Otos, Beniatjar, Salem, Benigànim, Quatretonda, Pinet, Llutxent, since the courses of the rivers take us to Castelló de Rugat, El Ràfol de Salem, Benicolet and La Pobla del Duc. We will (From Albaida to Bufali, passing through environments with great environmental Rugat, Aielo de Rugat, Montitxelvo and visit convents, old castles, mills, oils mills... Atzeneta d’Albaida, Salem, Castelló de and landscape value around old mills, Terrateig; so small that together they do And an impressive civil and religious Rugat, Rugat, Aielo de Rugat, Terrateig, weirs, bridges and irrigation networks that not add, for example, to the residents of architecture. A whole set of stones steeped Montitxelvo, El Ràfol de Salem, Beniatjar, make up the famous orchards in the region. any neighborhood in Ontinyent. But this is in history, which today are the most Otos, Carrícola, Bèlgida and El Palomar). only an advantage, since this demographic relevant cultural heritage of these towns. The Benicadell is myth, landscape reference As valuable as the orchards, it is the and urban fact allows us to enjoy the Also between town and town we will and avocation of the mountain in the Vall tranquility and friendliness of the people most welcoming, friendly, humane and discover farmland that show ancestral d’Albaida: it is magic in its purest form. He in the urban centers of Montaverner, architecturally speaking, best-preserved forms of banning with dry stone walls. gives his name to the mountain range of 132 | 133 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Bicycle touring

towns in the entire region. constantly wide and pleasant panoramic (From Ontinyent to Ontinyent passing Bocairent, the sources of Vinalopó, the views. The mountains appear perfectly through Bocairent). Moorish caves, the Font Freda or the As if that were not enough, on the route we defined by the Bocairent ravine and the Mariola fountain. In addition to all this, in will also find abundant heritage resources: Clariano river. To the west, it presents a This itinerary will allow us to enjoy lands specific corners, we will discover unique snow pits, relevant archaeological sites, forceful end, marked by the ravine where and landscapes that physiographically do trees, country houses, centuries-old water watchtowers and Andalusian-style castles, the Albaida river rises; natural passage not belong to the Vall d’Albaida and that ponds or archaeological sites. It should palaces, stately homes, fountains, caves, between the regions of Vall d’Albaida and for historical and socio-economic evolution also be emphasized that throughout this and above all, the most extensive and Comtat. reasons they have been brought to the itinerary we will walk and pedal through the spectacular panoramic views of dream. final administrative location in the province highest elevations of the entire set of routes As we continue along the itinerary, we of Valencia, and therefore to the region. that make up this publication. Itinerary 5 discover that the Agullent Mountain range But it is clear that when we want to go to (and its culminating point: La Covalta) Bocairent, we leave the region on the Pou includes a wide range of heritage, cultural Clar road, either through the Tarongers Start: Ontinyent Cemetery and environmental assets that will surely or Fos ravine (on foot), or on the road that Distance: 28 km not disappoint us in the least. Ice caves runs through the Adern ravine. The Torrater’s top. The Agullent Mountain (del Pilar, La Covalta ...) snow pits (Agullent, In any case, this purely bureaucratic and range, La Covalta and the Albaida Albaida), hermitages (San Vicente Ferrer administrative question does not detract Marquessate. in Agullent, San Miguel in Albaida ...), from the slightest interest in the route. On remarkable looking pine forests (between the one hand, Bocairent is probably the (From Ontinyent to Albaida, passing Agullent and Benissoda), archaeological town with the greatest tourist attraction in through Agullent and Benissoda) sites (Covalta, Old Castle...), old towns of the region due to its structure and urban great patrimonial value (Albaida, Agullent location, while the Mariola Mountain range This route in the Agullent Mountain ...), fountains (Maciana, Patge ...), old (part of which forms the term of Bocairent), range, is the most modest of the ecoguide pilgrimage roads, dry stone girders, old is not only one of the natural spaces of itineraries, not because the heritage values reservoirs, aqueducts, farmhouses, castles, greater interest of the Vall d’Albaida, but are lower, but because it only covers a total convents... All this makes up a suggestive also of the whole of the Valencian Country. of 28 km, compared to the average of 60 proposal and makes the route a permanent km of the rest of the five itineraries. surprise with numerous serene and In short, the Ombría Mountain range of It is also the most modest due to the fact peaceful spaces far from the noisiest places Ontinyent, the Valleta of Bocairent, the that the Agullent Mountain range is the in the region. Mariola Mountain range (the heart), the younger sister of the long shadow that runs town of Bocairent and the ravines of La Fos through the Vall from west to east. But, and Tarongers, will leave us, in this order, sometimes the most modest things have an unforgettable memory merced to the the best and most pleasant surprises in Itinerary 6 magic in which they are involved. Thus store for us, precisely because they are the Start: Ontinyent Station Road we will know a good handful of corners least striking at first glance. Distance: 60 km of great heritage value both natural and The first surprise is that the itinerary The Pou Clar, the Valleta of Bocairent, the cultural: the climb to the Soterranya, crosses almost the entire Agullent Mariola Mountain range and the Tarongers Mountain range, and offers us almost the hermitages, the medieval town of ravine. 134 | 135

Spaces natural

NATURAL PARK Mariola Mountain range

PROTECTED LANDSCAPE Benicadell’s Umbría

NATURAL LANDSCAPES MUNICIPALITIES El Surar of Pinet – Llutxent Umbría mountain range – Pou Clar Quatretonda Mountain range The Hermitage – Castelló de Rugat Penyes Albes

MUNICIPAL NATURAL SITE Les Arcades of Carrícola

LIC Els Alforins Mountain ranges of Montdúver and La Marxuquera Albaida river middle course

ZEPA Els Alforins Mountain ranges of Mariola and the Font Roja

MICRO-RESERVES Pla de Mora – Quatretonda Ombria of Buixcarró – Quatretonda The viewpoints – Llutxent Ombria of the Cova Alta – Albaida Pla de la Junquera – Pinet Benicadell’s Rock – Beniatjar Penyeta de l’Heura – Bufali and El Palomar 136 | 137

Festivities

Festivities in the Vall d’Albaida Throughout the twelve months of the year, La Vall d’Albaida is a continuous scene of parties and celebrations. The commemorative rhythm is accentuated by the summer months when the festive offer multiplies in all the towns of the Vallblanca. Party air is breathed, fireworks invade the nights, dances, festivals and bulls are present in our streets, marching bands accompany the parades of the Moors and Christians and the party is lived both day and night.

We have a great diversity of festivities, most of them with a long tradition and modeled through the centuries. With religious and profane celebrations there are endless possibilities to choose and enjoy our festivals and traditions. The religious system and the agricultural activity of the peasants (linked to the seasons) have created the annual festive cycle that we have in the Vall d’Albaida. The influences of the church are seen in the main festivities that are common to the whole of the Vall, such as Christmas, Lent, Easter Week, Easter (flowery Easter) and Corpus Christi, which coexist with minor and patron saint festivities, throughout the year.

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Festivities In autumn and winter In spring

Among the most important celebrations, Carnivals are also celebrated before Major festivities in Agullent everywhere, is that of “Todos los Santos” entering Lent. Popular are the Bèlgida (commemorations to San Vicente Ferrer) (time of loaves with almonds and eggs), carnivals, with flour battles. The inhabitants and in Llutxent, both with Moors and traditional fairs, such as l’Ollería (last of the Vall usually go out to the countryside Christians. At this time, traditional weekend in October) or Ontinyent (third with friends and family to try the famous celebrations are held linked to very specific weekend of November). Santa Cecilia is also oven-baked rice casseroles, which each one groups, such as the fifths or the daughters celebrated throughout the Vall, as well as in customizes to their liking. The Resurrection of Mary, in different towns of the Vall Ontinyent the Purísima Feasts and its bulls. night in Bocairent is celebrated with the d’Albaida. There are also important pilgrimages, such night of Rastros. On Easter Sunday the as that of Saint Martín in Quatretonda. “Angelet de la Corda” is celebrated in The month of May is the month of the Virgin Alfarrasí that crosses the square from side Mary, under various advocations such as El In January it is time for bonfires and porrats to side. Rosal, los Desamparados or Divina Aurora. -fair or small market of roasted chickpeas Benigànim and El Palomar celebrate one of and other sweets that is installed on the the most ancient feasts that are preserved edge of a sanctuary- with Saint Antonio, in the Vall: La Plantà del Xop. Also in many who blesses the animals throughout the towns around this time giants and bigheads Vall d’Albaida. Blessed Inés (January 21) are made and Corpus Christi is celebrated. is also celebrated in Benigànim, Saint Blas (February 3) in Bocairent, declared of National Tourist Interest, those of Saint Blas of Easter with the Flag dance in Montaverner or The miracle of the Corporals of Llutxent (February 24). 140 | 141 Tourist Guide of the Vall d’Albaida

Festivities SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION YEAR

In summer Winter December Agullent Feast of the Immaculate Conception. In summer, the parties explode everywhere, town square to the hermitage of Santo) Spring April Agullent Moors and Christians Eight days after the bulls on the street in Quatretonda and the patron saint festivities of l’Olleria festivities in honor of St. Easter the Moros y are an event expected by everyone. In and Guadasséquies. And already entered Vicente Ferrer. Crisitanos festivities Pinet they celebrate the water festival and the month of October, the festivities of the are celebrated. l’Olleria has recovered the “Ball dels locos” Remedy in Albaida and the Pilgrimage from Summer August Agullent Festival of the Virgin of (Dance of the mad people) -ancient dance Ontinyent to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of August. where the dancers fight with sticks- and Agres. Summer August Agullent Feast of St. Ramón Nonat they also make castles in the style of the Summer September Agullent September Festivities, First full weekend of Muixeranga of Algemesí. In July the Albaida We show you a regional festive calendar, which include the Nit September. fair and the pilgrimage of Saint Esteban so that we go to each of the festivities and de les Fogueretes, a festival declared of Tourist are celebrated in Ontinyent. In August, enjoy the traditions, the culture, the history, Interest, The Miracle of many patronal celebrations come to many the celebration and the fun. Saint Vincent and the Day towns in the region (Benicolet, Otos, Aielo of Christ of Health. de Malferit, Castelló de Rugat, Alfarrasí, Winter February Aielo de Malferit Half Year Celebration of They are held on the Montaverner, Ontinyent and Benigànim). Moors and Christians. second weekend of February. Porrat is also celebrated such as that of Saint Domènech in Llutxent, feasts in local Summer July Aielo de Malferit Feast of the Saints of It is celebrated in the the Stone and Feast of month of July. hermitages such as that of the Cúgol of Carmen. Ontinyent and dances such as those of Summer August Aielo de Malferit Patronal festivities to Saint Agustín in Bocairent. the Christ of Poverty September brings us to the night of the and Saint Engracio, with fireworks in Agullent, in honor of Saint Moors and Christians. Vicente (pilgrimage with lanterns from the Summer August Aielo de Malferit Feast of St. Lorenzo.

Summer August Aielo de Rugat Patron Saint Feast of the They are held on the Assumption with Moors second weekend of and Christians. August.

Spring May Albaida Feast of the Holy Cross In mid-May. and the pilgrimage to La Covalta.

Summer July Albaida St. Jaume de Albaida Fair.

Autumn September Albaida Patron saint festivities dedicated to the Virgen del Remedio are held from September 29 to October 11.

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SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION YEAR YEAR

Outumn October Albaida From the 8th to the 11th Summer July Bellús Festivity to the patron the Moors and Christians saint Saint. Ana. festivities begin, with the Entrance and the Spring April Beniatjar Septenary to Our Lady It is held the week Embassies. of Sorrows, with great before Easter (Pain wealth of songs and Week). Outumn October Albaida Neighborhood feast of liturgical, which has been Pilar. celebrated continuously at least since 1688. Summer August Albaida- Aljorf San Domingo de Guzman festivities in the Aljorf Spring March Beniatjar Party in honor of Our Lady It is celebrated on the neighborhood. of the Incarnation, patron Saturday closest to saint of the municipality, March 25. Spring April Alfarrasi Feast of l’Angelet de la On Easter Sunday the with popular casseroles corda d’Alfarrasí. well-known feast of on the street. l’Angelet de la corda is celebrated. Spring April Beniatjar Holy Tuesday la Salpassà. On the second day of Easter the oil is Summer August Alfarrasi Supervisory celebrations They are celebrated collected for the to St. Roque, Santa Cruz towards the third priest. and Christ of the Agony, weekend of August. with celebration of the Summer August Beniatjar Patronal festivities in They are held the last Moors and Christians. honor of San Roque, the week of August. Stmo. Christ of Comfort, Summer September Atzeneta Moors and Christians They are held on the the Assumption and the d’Albaida festivities. second weekend of Divine Aurora. September. Spring April Benicolet Cassoletes (baked rice The Thursday before Summer September Atzeneta Supervisory celebrations They are held on the casseroles). Ash Cassoletes (rice d’Albaida dedicated to the Christ of third weekend of with crust) are the Faith, the Virgin of the September. prepared in the Rosary and St. Roque. mountains.

Winter February Bèlgida Feast of St. Blas and the Summer June Benicolet Feast of St. Juan. day of St. Ramón Nonat on the Sunday before Summer August Benicolet Patronal festivals They are celebrated Carnival. dedicated to the the first weekend of Immaculate Conception, August. Winter February Bèlgida The Week of l’Enfarinà, It is celebrated during the Divine Aurora and the which lives its most the week before Christ of the Faith, with important day the same carnival day. parades of Moors and Saturday of Carnival, that Christians. same weekend La Dansà is celebrated. Outumn October Benicolet Feast of the Virgen del Rosario. Summer August Bèlgida Patron Saint Festival of St. Lorenzo, The Santísima Winter January Benigànim Feast of Blessed Inés. Mass, procession etc. Trinidad and Ecce Homo Spring May Benigànim Feast of the Virgen de los They are celebrated Summer September Bellús Supervisory celebrations They are held on Desamparados, with the on the second to St. Ana and to the the second and plantà del Xop. Sunday of May. Christ of the Good Death, third weekend of as well as the Saints of September. Summer August Benigànim Convent Fair. the Stone Abdón and Senen. Summer August Benigànim Feast of the Virgen de las It is celebrated on Nieves. the first weekend of August. 144 | 145 Guía turística de la Vall d’Albaida

SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION YEAR YEAR

Summer August Benigànim Patronal festivities to the It is celebrated on Winter December Castelló de Celebrations of the Virgin Divine Aurora, the Christ the last weekend of Rugat of the Remedy (with the of the Blood and Saint August. commemoration of the Michael, with Moors and Miracle), the Christ of the Christians Festivities. Faith and the Most Pure.

Summer August Benissoda Patron saint festivities in Summer June Fontanars dels Feast of the Immaculate It is celebrated in late honor of the Virgin of the Alforins or Feast of the Girls. June. Rosary, Saint Domingo and Saint Bárbara. Summer August Fontanars dels Feast of the Moors and They are celebrated Alforins Christians. the last weekend. Summer Septemebr Benissuera Patron saint festivities to They are held on the the Miraculous and the second weekend of Summer August Guadasséquies Supervisory celebrations They are held the Christ of Amparo. September. to St. Roques, the Virgin of second week of the Hope and the Christ August. Winter February Bocairent Supervisory festivities to The first full of the Shelter. St. Blás with entrance and weekend of parades of Moors and February. Saturday Winter December Guadasséquies Feast of the Virgin of Christians. the entrance is Hope. celebrated. Winter February Llutxent Festivity of St. Martín, the Spring May Bocairent At the beginning of May Miracle of the Corporales Pilgrimage to St. Jaime. is commemorated.

Summer August Bocairent Summer festivities to Spring April Llutxent Patronal festivities to the They are celebrated St. Agustín with popular Holy Face, to the Christ the last weekend of dances in the town hall of the Conhorte and April. square. the Divine Aurora, with parades of Moors and Annual Annual Bocairent Neighborhood and Christians. hermitage festivals throughout the year. Summer July Llutxent Feast of the Apparition of the Cross. Summer August Bufali Patron saint festivities for the Virgin of Loreto and Summer August LLutxent Feast and Porrat of the the Christ of Poverty. Saint Domingo.

Spring May Carrícola The Apparition of Saint Summer September LLutxent Feast and Porrat of the Miguel. Virgin of Consolation.

Outumn September Carrícola Supervisory celebrations They are celebrated Spring April Montaverner St. Blas is celebrated to St. Miguel, the Christ of the last weekend of on Easter Sunday and the Calvary and the Saints September. Monday, with the Flag of the Stone. dance.

Summer August Castelló de Major Festivities with They are celebrated Summer August Montaverner Patron saint festivities They are held the last Rugat Moors and Christians the following Sunday for the Virgin of Loreto, week of August. parades. to August 15. the Christ of Patience, Saint John and Saint Outumn October Castelló de Feast of les Cassoletes, It is celebrated the James, with entrance and Rugat coinciding with Saint following Sunday to parades by Moors and Teresa. October 15. Christians. 146 | 147 Guía turística de la Vall d’Albaida

SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION SEASON MONTH POPULATION HOLIDAY NAME DESCRIPTION YEAR YEAR

Spring April Montitxelvo La Salpassa (Easter week). It is celebrated at Outumn November Ontinyent Ontinyent’s fair. It is celebrated on Tradition of possible Easter. the third weekend of Judaic or pre-Christian November. origin, which consists of the blessing of salt Outumn Dicember Ontinyent Festival Bull with rope Between November and water in each of and December, the the homes of the town Purísima, the Bou en in order to protect the Corda, l’Embolà, the house, crops or families. Cant dels Angelets, the Procession with Spring May Montitxelvo Major Holidays to the They are celebrated the traditional dances Virgin of the Rosary, the the first weekend of the Giants and Christ of Forgiveness, the of May. Bigheads, els Arquets, Divine Aurora and the els Cavallets, La Veta Immaculate Conception. and La Moma.

Spring July Montitxelvo Moors and Christians They are celebrated Annual Annual Ontinyent Throughout the year, festivities. the first week of July. festivals in neighborhoods and hermitages, such Summer July Montitxelvo Cultural week. Giant as Cúgol, San Antonio, paella, exhibitions, sports Llombo, Sant Esteve, San competitions, theater, Rafael, etc.. cinema in the plaza, cucañas. Winter February Otos Day of les cassoletes It is celebrated on (baked rice casseroles). the Thursday before Spring May l’Olleria Feast of the Three Birds It is celebrated in the carnival. Maria in the Capuchin month of May. Convent. Spring March Otos Feast of Saint José. Giant paella for everyone. Summer July l’Olleria Feast of the Magdalena with the recovered Ball Summer August Otos Supervisory celebrations dels Locos. in honor to the Christ of the Faith, the Saints Summer August l’Olleria Feast of St. Roque. of the Stone and the Immaculate Conception. Summer August l’Olleria Bulls in the street. Spring May El Palomar On the second Sunday Summer August l’Olleria Moors and Christians They are celebrated of May, the Plantà del festivities in honor of St. the first weekend of Xop is held, in honor Miguel, Ecce Homo, Cristo September. of the Virgen de los de la Palma and the Desamparados. The Virgin of Loreto. dances of the little shepherds and the flag Outumn October l’Olleria Art and craft fair. It is celebrated in are danced. early October. Summer August El Palomar Patronal festivities in They are celebrated Outumn October l’Olleria L’Olleria fair. honor of the Holy Family on the third Sunday of the Christ of the of August. Summer August Ontinyent Moors and Christians Celebrations of Moors Miracle. festivities. and Christians to the Holy Christ of Agony (of National Tourist Interest) are held on the weekend of the fourth Sunday of August. 148 | 149 Guía turística de la Vall d’Albaida

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Summer June Pinet Patronal festivities in Summer July Rugat The patron saint festivities They are held the last honor of the Immaculate dedicated to St.Bernardo week of July. Conception, the Christ with parades, festivals, of the Mountain and St. cordà and processions. Pedro Apóstol, around June 29, with parades, Summer July Salem Moors and Christians They are held the processions and festivals. Feast of Youth to the second week of July. Virgin of Aurora Winter January La Pobla The “Novenario del Cristo del Duc del Amparo” and the Feast Summer September Salem Patron saint festivities for of Cristo del Amparo are the Christ of Peace, St. celebrated. Miguel and St. Roque.

Summer July La Pobla On the last three days Summer September Salem Festivity of St. Miguel, del Duc of July, the Fiesta de patron of the town. los Santos de la Piedra is celebrated, with Winter February Sempere Patron saint festivities to processions and street San Blas, with bonfires, dances. parades, procession and distribution of rolls. Summer August La Pobla Patronal festivities in They are held on del Duc honor of the Divine the last weekend of Spring April Terrateig Celebrations dedicated to It is celebrated Aurora, to the Blessed August / September Saint Vicente Ferrer. towards the Monday Christ of the Amparo and 1st. following Easter, the patron St. Blas. with parades, processions, festivals Outumn October La Pobla Commercial and It is celebrated on and pilgrimage to the del Duc Gastronomic Fair. the first weekend of hermitage. October. Winter Dicember Vall d’Albaida Feast of the Aguinaldo. Summer June Quatretonda Festivities of the St. Pedro, with bulls through Verano June Vall d’Albaida Feast of the Saint Juan. the streets. Winter January Vall d’Albaida Cabalgada de los Reyes La noche del 5 al 6 de Summer September Quatretonda Patronal festivities. Magos de Oriente. enero.

Outumn October Quatretonda The celebration of the Winter January Vall d’Albaida Saint Antonio Abad. 17 de enero San anniversary of the Antonio Abad. founding of the town is on October 21. Winter February Vall d’Albaida Carnivals. Antes del Miércoles de Ceniza. Carnavales Outumn November Quatretonda Pilgrimage to the y cazula de arroz al Hermitage of St. Martín. horno en todos los pueblos de la Vall Winter February El Ràfol On February 3, St. Blas, d’Albaida. de Salem with “porrat”, blessing and offering of bread to Summer June Vall d’Albaida Corpus Christi Procesiones junto the neighborhood. con los niños de comunión de cada Summer September El Ràfol Patronal festivities año. de Salem dedicated to Saint Thomas, the Divine Winter November Vall d’Albaida Feast of Santa Cecilia. Savior, the Divine Aurora and the Divine Shepherdess. 150 | 151

Museums

Museums and museum collections

It has always been the concern of collecting objects, whether they be paintings, goldsmiths, sculptures, tools and utensils used by the primitive settlers, or any other that aroused interest, in order to make them known to a more or less large audience.

This process has also been experienced in the Vall d’Albaida region and as a consequence, we find today a large group of small museums that treasure an important cultural and artistic heritage at your entire disposal. Different themes are present for your enjoyment, from painting museums, to archaeological and ethnographic collections, through those dedicated to popular characters such as Nino Bravo or even to collect puppets, arrived from any corner of the world. 152 | 153 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Museums

Flour Mill. “Vicent Casanova” Municipal Archaeological C/ José Mª Casanova, 4 Museum 46890 - Agullent Placeta del lleó, s/n Tel: 96 290 70 80 46880 - Bocairent [email protected] Tel: 96 235 00 62 [email protected] Nino Bravo Museum Museum of trades and customs of Bocairent Passeig de l’Eixample, s/n 46812 - Aielo de Malferit C/ Abadía, 44B Tel: 654 39 42 96 46880 - Bocairent www.museoninobravo.com Tel: 96 235 00 62 [email protected] [email protected]

Segrelles House-Museum Feast museum. Plaça Pintor Segrelles, 13 C./ Joan de Joanes, s/n 46860 - Albaida 46880 - Bocairent Tel: 606 364 831 / 663 34 75 31 Tel: 96 235 12 41 [email protected] [email protected]

Nativity scenes and Antonio Ferri Municipal museum dioramas museum C/ Mossen Hilari C/ Pintor Segrelles 46880 - Bocairent 46860 - Albaida Tel. 96 290 50 62 Tel: 607 201 970 / 96 239 01 86 [email protected] [email protected]

International puppets museum of Albaida (MITA) Parish Museum Church of the Assumption C./ Abadía, 38 Plaça Major, 7 - 46860 - Albaida 46880 - Bocairent Tel: 607 201 970 / 96 239 01 86 Tel: 96 235 00 62 [email protected] www.parroquiabocairent.org

Museum of the crafts of Atzeneta: stone, bell Saint Blai Ice Cave and esparto grass Baixada a les covetes Mare de Déu dels Desemparts, nº 46-48 · 46869 - Atzeneta d’Albaida 46880 - Bocairent Tel: 672 428 001 Tel: 96 290 50 62 www.atzenetadalbaida.com [email protected] [email protected] Comarcal Ethnological Museum of the Vall d’Albaida. “Mariano Jornet Perales” Archaeological Museum Pl. Francisco Ferri, 1 C/ Torre de l’antic Palau 46860 - Benissoda 46868 - Bèlgida Tel: 96 239 08 05 Tel: 96 290 10 47 [email protected] [email protected] 154 | 155 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

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Museum-Craft Workshop (Gerreria Evarist Navarro) Ontinyent and Vall d’Albaida Archaeological Camí del Ràfol de Salem Museum (MAOVA) Tel.: 96 235 60 01 C/ Regall, 2 46870 - Ontinyent [email protected] Tel: 96 291 13 73 - 679 18 38 51 [email protected]

El Palomar Municipal Museum Collection Museum of Natural Sciences Plaça de la Constitució, 1 46869 - El Palomar Avda. Sant Francesc, 5 (Concepcion school) Tel.: 96 239 09 03 46870 - Ontinyent Web: www.elpalomar.es Tel: 96 238 01 00 [email protected] [email protected] Parish museum of the Church of San Pedro Feast Museum C/ Major Plaça de Baix, 30 · 46870 - Ontinyent 46891 - El Palomar Tel: 96 291 60 90 / 96 291 91 29 Tel: 96 239 09 03 www.museufester.net [email protected] [email protected] / [email protected]

Glass museum Valencian Textile Museum C/ Ravalet, 11 Plaça de Sant Roc, 2 46850 - L’Olleria (Palau de la Vila) Tel: 96 220 06 01 Tel: 96 291 60 90 / 96 291 91 29 [email protected] [email protected]

Santonja House. Palace of the Marau’s C/ Ravalet, 11 46850 - L’Olleria Tel: 96 220 06 01 [email protected]

Rafael Ballester’s houses C/ Cantalar de Sant Vicent, 36 46870 - Ontinyent Tel: 626 233 271 [email protected]

Descals Mill C/ Músico Úbeda, 2 46870 - Ontinyent Tel: 96 291 60 90 [email protected] 156 | 156

Restaurants, wineries, traditional products and recipes

La Vall d’Albaida has always maintained a deep gastronomic tradition. If you visit our towns, you will enjoy the hospitality of its people and you will taste dishes and sweets made with the natural products of the region. Also within this section you have some recipes of the numerous dishes that can be tasted in the Vall d’Albaida and that we hope will be to your liking.

And how could it be otherwise, you will also find a section in which we list the characteristic agri-food products of the Vall d’Albaida (oil, wine, honey, “arrop i tallaetes”...) and, of course, cooperatives, wineries and various places where we have the possibility of buying them.

Another part of the section lists the bars and restaurants in the region, to facilitate your decision when finding a place to eat. And finally, we offer you a list of wineries in Vall d’Albaida, with links to their web pages, so that you can get to know first- hand an emerging industry in our region. 158 | 159 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Restaurants, wineries, traditional products and recipes

Restaurants guide March 962360414 El jardí 674470979

Are you looking for a good restaurant in Agullent Racó del barca 962904444 El pansat 607167167 - Vall d’Albaida? 962900373 Bar jubilats 632979164 Bar Avenida 962360305 Elvis 687721255 Our portal offers you the best and most Casa Ricardo 664170909 Cafeteria La Plaça 676629977 complete restaurant guide, adapted to all L’Apetitosa 659619357 El conde 962907251 Geladeria La Toscana 610266500 - preferences and budgets, from restaurants 605213865 L’aranya 962390327 with cheap menus to the most gourmet, El roglet 960263475 from tapas bars to the most romantic Restaurant la vall 962904386 - La Estrella feliz 646270960 Ermita 962907116 692904035 restaurants. You will also find extensive information on Font Jordana 962359024 - Gastro-pub Stradivarius 630881534 625041049 El Criteri Taberna 962901854 restaurants specializing in Mediterranean Tati’s 665551979 cuisine. La Plaça 962907098 Llar de jubilats 962900982 Tavampa 962360218 - Cafeteria Espai Mara 644915325 Els Arcs 962900571 In the Vall d’Albaida restaurants, among 646486061 which there is no shortage of specialized in Aielo de Malferit Aielo de Rugat Mos i glop 962907890 - 661251835 typical dishes of the area, you will enjoy a Bar piscina 64273119 Bar-Caf. Centro Social 655780246 typical Valencian gastronomy characterized poliesportiu Noise café 660380891 by merging local products. Albaida Cafeteria major 962360002 Pub diferent 647450192 Bar el mercat municipal 652796117 Coca-beach 962904109 Pastelería espí 962390216 - Bar la nova bellota 962900387 962391145 L’encontre 667293080 Bar palau 962900802 Pastelería soler 962390844 - L’ Aljub 694449888 962901109 Bar panata 610218205 Llar de jubilats 697931436 Pizza Che Montevideo 638926988 Bolera bowling Albaida 669 472 518 Bar la Vall 962390501 Cafeteria el celler 608107912 Retorn 962390117 Cafeteria el punt 606824779 Tarifa 962390616 Casa Roa 609633702 Tasca bar moros 643212208 Cafeteria Zulay 609866460 nous Bar de Willy 632284199 Alfarrasí Casablanca 962900896 - Bar karma 651388601 605258414 Bar la tapa 960612069 - Círculo cultural josé 962390061 664735274 segrelles La Sènia 675649507 El calero 962901021 La parà 619490867 160 | 161 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

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La terrassa 678056518 Bar Cafetería toni 962920047 Hotel Rest. La Sitja 962398570 Rest. Mesón Gandía 962351118 - 621266883 Atzeneta d’Albaida Bar Rest. El churrero 962215075 Bar Rest. San antoni 962900056 El Terrat 625540602 Bar el casino 625361262 Cafeteria espai jove 962920047 - Benissuera 660787102 Bufali Burguer chaplin 962356482 Niko Restaurant 633717256 Rest. Garden 962215872 - Bar del Poble 962293132 Pub Dolce 653913344 Bocairent Bensuera El Arriero 616293816 Bar L’ortissa 649492087 Bar rte. Casa Ximo 962350208 Rest. Espai solana 603428320 El Balconet 962356684 Capri 962920373 Bar Casa Xam 625540602 Carrícola Rest. Gabana 662182944 El capritxet 678732812 Bar rte. El camping 962135161 Quatre gats 633831222 mariola Bar Manhattan 616293816 Defans Cafe&Pub 962215354 Rest. Hostal rural 960992511 Bar rte. La rotonda 962905215 Carrícola Belgida La brasa 655466364 Bar Sifó 962350294 Castelló de Rugat Bar la plaça 962900446 Chino Pekin 962215647 Bar Solbes 962350108 Caf. Panaderia Osbel 622274640 Bruselas 962390826 Bar Racó 962215895 Caf. Doménech 651604765 Angelo’s pizza 609788163 Bar Centre Social 617553989 Royalti 962920098 Caf. Hotel l’àgora 962355039 Rest. Avenida 962813152 - Bellús Rte. Asador el paso 625492115 - Caf. Casa Rosa 699877221 655686557 Bar Del Poble 636891151 962215044 Caf. Continental 685143566 Rte. Bar españa 962215896 - Caf. La gela 962905090 - Restaurant Mz 962293176 - 699877189 633560634 675202881 Centre social 962814230 Caf. La jijonenca 620771227 Beniatjar Bar Miami take away 962920034 - El Raconet de Mayte 962813074 653322244 Caf. Les coves 962905091 Centro social 962358004 Rest. Génesis 962813096 Tiffanys 665674536 Caf. Padel indoor 618211910 Benicolet Rest. L’almud 629819563 Tío pepe 962217138 Cerveseria l’Aljub 686466932 Cervantes 962830046 L’irlandés 962813725 Espai Jove 962920047 - Cafeteria Vicentet 635296755 Coop. San Juan B 962830123 - 660787102 TIC-TAC 607944686 669692903 Rest. Ravalet 962905262 Hogar del Jubilado 665610692 Reto 650530234 Benigànim El rostidor 962905328 A mi manera 607944686 Fontanars dels Bar cafeteria el 657353876 Hotel rest. L’estació 962350000 Alforins guirigall Benissoda Tasca l’Arc 962350561 La Toscana 962222279 Bar mario 962215154 - Bar Cascia 617793808 Rte. El cancell 962350893 - Bar caudalía 962222183 655894338 El cafetí 962900899 - 619709270 Finca torrefiel 678707854 Bar rte. Les foies 962920276 606064003 Pop art burguer 962390164 La cova 962222110 162 | 163 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

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Pub trajín 655908165 La Gamba 670477840 - Casa Manolo 962200893 Alma café 615468696 962227170 Rte. Cafetería Julio 962222238 Rest. Menjar Toni 962201711 Antanyo 960 822 253 La Cuina de Lidia 674041985 Guadasséquies Pau S.L .L . 962200998 Atenea 962383273 La cotxera de Roberto 962297422 Rte. El faro 962293003 Pizzas Ortiz 962200304 Autograma 619383728 Montitxelvo Bar El Romeret 693445447 Rest. Plata 962200477 Avenida 633776292 Rest. Ca Colau 962897216 Llutxent Bar Café Pepa 647006985 Rest. Blanc i Negre 960063863 - Casa de la cultura 962897149 661917871 Astrum 620785933 Polideportivo 962201759 L’Olleria municipal Rest. Big Foot 669126380 Bar jubilats 654522701 Amanecer 637056519 Racó del tapeo 607443859 Rest. Borinot Bistró 678422240 Bar La font 962294038 Anem anant 618206499 Rte. Chino gran 962200578 Bocanegra 658945377 Bar nou 691468930 muralla Caf. Avinguda 688488849 Bokaty 962913085 Bar-Rest. Paloma 962923018 Rte. El senyoret de 962200359 - Rt. March experience 615584358 les olles 649053816 Bratembier Bierhaus 963216633 El mosset 658940823 Baden-Baden El Poblet 960717913 - Maravilla 962294235 Rte. As Meigas fornes 962200304 629470585 bleda, S.L. Bunker&Bram 675995002 Pizzeria fabra 962294311 - Burger local + 962202085 Bus bar 2.0 602217789 605097944 Solo pizza 963124100 Ca guaita 962201382 Sal i Menta 643502383 Ca tono 608540815 - Restaurant el mas 962131282 - 633249552 de xetà 673795036 Caf. Horno Pajarita 962201129 Ca Tarsi 962200275 Café palau 666564818 Rte. L’Alter 620187026 Caf. Borderia 962201405 - Tasca Nido 960072358 651085138 Cafeteria 91 962911515 Bar Sol 644410938 Un Altra Cosa 605783503 Caf. Nadal 962200354 Cafetería centro 650687796 Bar La Piscina 603540254 Uni-k 698377502 Pizzeria Giovanni 960717929 - Camarena 962384240 Café Bar TRANCJ 962294405 633837919 Ontinyent Cafeteria 365 876018938 Montaverner El ravalet 962201814 100 Montaditos 960098906 Rest. Casa Inés 962381320 Celler de Ca Mónica 666504604 El semáforo 962202125 37 Grados 615645759 Rest. Casa Seguí 962911779 El tossal 651970196 - La Jijonenca 962200028 ABBAS-G doner 631361349 635516429 kebab pizzas Rest. Cases de borràs 962914271 - Hotel rte. Gasaqui 962360608 690930784 La Tasca 622779538 - Adrián 962380190 633831222 Kebab 633256615 Chuymar 962380017 Rest. Aitana 962385724 - Bar Noelia 665842485 La cuina de la Golosa 960717971 677663205 Círculo industrial y 962380143 agrícola Sushi for event 643517311 La xarradeta 961054335 - ART&SA comida 619680902 Cafeteria Casa Maria 963116819 651444577 vegana 164 | 165 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

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Coret de sucre 617233347 El taconet 680273424 L’almassera 635478128 Maria 665192265 Capri 642516795 Rest. El taulell 962383979 - La barra 961910744 Caf. Mayan’s 637 58 87 54 617837630 Coty pizza 962385162 La Barraca de Colón 962386417 Rest. Mesón del rey 962382685 El tinell de calabuig 962915048 Casa Cándido 635649855 La Clariana 962283536 - Més que oci el lloc 699809709 - El tirador cocina indú 961 91 10 77 669040969 (Mercadona) 675 99 50 02 Casa Janeth 962912891 El típic 961912424 Rt. La Catrina 722693011 Mora cafeteria- 962380111 - Club de Tenis 962383072 cocina mexicana pasteleria 962910764 Els tonells cerveseria 961910307 Rt. Chino China Town 962 91 25 35 La Raspa 644121284 Miranda 619916376 El polero geladeria 962380029 Rt. Chino La Estrella 962 91 21 65 Rest. La cuina 962387762 - Molí del pas 627213829 Festers 962380047 678422241 Rt. Chino La Gran 962 38 87 50 Moshi Moshi Japonés 685266263 Muralla Fontinyent 962383170 La Fragua 635478128 Rest. Monterrey 962386298 Rest. Debosc 961910464 - Forn i Pastisseria 962382767 La gamba taberna 961910448 638868013 C. Estellés Rest. NAC 962910868 La Ibense geladeria 961912614 Don picaeta 1 - 962384186 - Habana Café 643351763 Nou huerta 659305916 el comodí 670557625 La Pausa 960141020 Harmony café 669200111 Nou orba 962911621 Don picaeta 2 962914324 La Ploma 962384878 Hot & krispy fast 961194912 Nou racó del tirador 962911686 Due cocina italiana 961910520 - food La Penya 673517947 649217170 Nou ramonet 619387369 Huerta Bar Nou 659305916 La Quimera 628246495 El tapeo de Marco 963111860 Nou tauro 962381847 Hui no cuine 960115064 La vall cuina 642688712 El camí vell bar 961194468 Nou tendur 962388809 Rest. Inaudit 960141424 La Raspa 644 12 12 84 El cantó 962385137 Nou tibot 962383518 Irish kells cerveseria 961 91 00 12 La tardor 645645064 El comodí 962 38 41 86 irlandesa Nova àgora 962381832 La taska 962387614 El xiringuito de la 629319119 Ibèric Segrelles 630983988 Ocean’s café 646968968 piscina Rest. La terreta 960222610 Il Rosso 962386763 Ortiz pizzas y pollos 962240333 Rest. El encuentro - 687321014 Llámame Lola 961911991 asador argentino Rest. Inaudit 960141424 Paco 962384762 Los chicos 962383431 El lloc nou 962382115 Jauja 962380010 Rest. Paixixi 961910857 Luna café 643749778 Entrepans 26 960690612 Hotel Kazar 962382443 Polígono 642896535 Màgic gastro-pub 620570278 El mesón del rey 962382685 Kala G Doner Kebap 960 14 10 38 Punt Gomis cafeteria 961194240 Malvarrosa 960064143 - Rest. El nou tendur 962388809 L’alba 962386941 962385930 Pollos la Ribera 962914148 El panxudet 962388364 L’alforí 962384912 Márago café i té 961910004 - Pollos El Molino 962387031 657410273 El salvador 962380008 L’Arjama 680303036 Pato burguer 960141418 166 | 167 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

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Petit comité 960883348 - Telepizza 962911179 Ca Ximo 615383799 Racó de Vicent 686369317 gastro-bar 651139431 Temple pub 636451215 Rest. Campillo 962250528 - Rugat Rest. Picasso 962912586 654818975 Teo 626757030 Camping Oasis park 962814166 Pipper pizza 962911899 El mulato 962250318 Torró 654080007 Bar Social 642718867 Pizzeria La toscana 962383181 La goleta 675261225 Tot veïns cafeteria 665349102 Salem Pizzeria spiaggia 962380180 La pista monterrey 962927878 Truck&Go 662050856 Granja san Miguel 962883515 - Pizzeria Roma 961910483 Rest. La reliquia 626125889 - 663081221 Pub Tritó 648135458 667995218 Pollos el molino 962387031 L’era 962813343 Vicedo 962381897 La tapeta 962927804 Quica gastroclub 672263306 La cascu de Javito 643903281 Wood park 684414122 Bar Piscina de Alan 645204956 Río mundo 962381474 y Dari Terrateig Wait Cooking 620570278 Roma cafeteria 962914145 Experience Que menjem 962927897 - Bar llar de jubilats 962896330 615512944 San Remo 962913522 Wok asiático 961194107 V-Dos Pub 625650425 Rest. Sant vicent 656781162 Rest. Zoco 690851667 Quatretonda Sents 960088332 Otos Astur 962264617 Secreto a leña 642257652 Hotel rte. Ca les 962358032 - senyoretes 647643505 Avinguda 962264744 Slitti Cafeteria + 962386157 Paradís 962358259 Bar polideportivo 652567615 Soler - la jijonenca 962384852 El Palomar Bou 962264682 Sombrero 962383507 Bar cultural 633154066 Centre social 639845318 - Stop dos bocatería 962915111 625870625 Bar rte. Font de sis 652288612 Stop sportiu 665849165 Heretat de Pere 962132269 - Burguer maxim’s 962900552 666376968 Sucre cafeteria 965128304 People 629483858 Jaguar 962264065 - Sucre kids 961911112 616607499 Rte. Cristina 642609776 Susu 961912281 Rest. Delicias 661814782 Pinet T’apeteix 655310581 gourmet San Pere 962923102 Tastam Pizza i Tapes 960064149 Bar Casa Ricardo 962264270 - La Pobla del Duc 643702229 Tiki Taka 968573201 Bar Gomar 962927867 Sarau 651620327 Teixo 960 21 70 08 - 616360674 Bar Vicent 616731790 - Tasca la Falaguera 635439928 652137788 Bar Toni 960 14 10 38 Ràfol de Salem 168 | 169 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Restaurants, wineries, traditional products and recipes Guide of wineries and traditional products Destileria Juan Licors Plaça del Aielo de 46812 96 236 00 07 [email protected] Micó Palau, 8 Malferit

The predominant varieties for red wines are: In addition to the wines, you can find other Bodega de Vi C/ San Bèlgida 46868 96 239 10 64 [email protected] Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Tempranillo, types of typical products from the Vall such Facundo Cháfer Isidro La- 655 67 39 26 Pinot Noir, Shyraz and Monastrell, and for as mistela, herbero, olive oil, cheeses and brador, 8 whites: Verdil, Chardonnay, Macabeo and sausages, honey and traditional sweets… Coop. de Oli Partida de Beniatjar 46844 96 235 82 55 [email protected] Parellada. Beniatjar - Oli Tossal, s/n del Benicadell In most of the Fontanars wineries there S.C.V. is the possibility of making visits by Bodega Tomàs Vi i mistela C/ Vicente Benigànim 46830 96 292 03 16 appointment, and in all of them, you can Boscà Boluda, 18 purchase their products. Herberet Licors Plaça Racó Bocairent 46880 96 235 00 27 www.herberet.es Experience de càpito, 3 661 84 34 63

Celler Tomàs Vi C/ del Tin- Carrícola 46869 669 35 94 24 [email protected] Name Product Direction Municipa- C.P Telephone Web or e-mail Torres quet, 9 lity Bodega Bataller Vi Camí Real n Castelló de 46841 96 281 30 17 [email protected] Bodega Casa de Vino Corral del Agullent 46890 96 213 50 03 www.lacasadelasvides.com 94-96 Rugat las Vides Galtero, 606 36 99 03 Bodega Heretat Vi Casa Colaus Fontanars 46635 96 213 24 37 www.heretatdetaverners.com s/n de Taverners - Ctra.Fonta- del Alforins 616 93 00 03 [email protected] Bodega Vino C/ Oriente Aielo de 46812 637 73 51 91 [email protected] nars-Moixent, Alonso Sanz 64-B Malferit km 1,8

Coop. d’Aielo de Oli Pol. Indus- Aielo de 46812 628 03 78 53 Bodega Vi Ctra. L’Om- Fontanars 46635 676 08 47 25 [email protected] Malferit trial Serran, Malferit Torrevellisca bria, km 1 del Alforins bodegas-torrevellisca.online Parc 4 Bodega Los Vi Casa los Fontanars 46635 96 222 20 90 bodegaslospinos.com/es/ bode- Pinos Pinos, s/n del Alforins gaslospinos@bodegaslospinos. com

Bodegas Daniel Vi i Avda. del Fontanars 46635 96 222 22 78 www.danielbelda.com Belda enoturisme Comte dels 663 183 987 Salvaterra Alforins d’Alava, 54

Bodega Los Vi Casa los Fontanars 46635 96 222 22 20 www.bodegaslosfrailes.com Frailes Frailes, s/n dels [email protected] (CV-660, Alforins km 5,3)

Bodega Vicente Vi Camí de les Fontanars 46635 96 222 21 68 [email protected] Ribera e hijos Naus Arte- dels 609 86 77 77 [email protected] sanals,12 Alforins 170 | 171 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

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Name Product Direction Municipa- C.P Telephone Web or e-mail Name Product Direction Municipa- C.P Telephone Web or e-mail lity lity

Bodega Rafael Vi Camí de les Fontanars 46635 649 97 33 07 www.rafaelcambra.es Vins de Vi Camí dels Ontinyent 46870 675323763 www.vinsdeleandro.com Cambra Naus Arte- dels Leonardo carros, 19 sanals,14 Alforins Coop. Comarcal Oli Ctra. de Quatre- 46837 96 226 40 46 [email protected] Finca Torrefiel Oli i Ctra. CV- Fontanars 46635 678 70 78 54 www.torrefiel.com Quatretonda Xàtiva, s/n tonda 675 602 948 vinagre 660 km dels Coop. Vinícola Vi Avda. País Quatre- 46837 96 226 58 02 [email protected] 13,900 Alforins de Quatretonda Valencià, 1 tonda 96 226 58 19 lefonica.net Coop. Vitiviní- Vi C/ Marxi- La Pobla 46840 96 225 00 17 [email protected] C/ Garcia cola de la Pobla llent, 58 del Duc 628 54 07 89 Lorca, 2 del Duc Juan Luis Agricultura C/ El Carrícola 46869 96 235 62 37 [email protected] Aceite Oli Crta CV-655 Ontinyent 46870 663 88 21 81 www.fincasantaelena.es Blasco Cháfer ecològica carreró, 2 659 977 393 www.lavallbio.com Virgen Extra Ontinyent- 960 812 826 [email protected] Noblezza Fontanars, Carnisseria Carn i C/ del Agullent 46890 96 290 70 91 [email protected] km. 9 Joaquin embotit Marqués, 3 Amanda selecta Oli C/ Escultor Ontinyent 46870 96 238 09 62 [email protected] Guerola Julio Capuz, Carnisseria Carn i C/ Sant Agullent 46890 962 90 70 83 2 bajo Luis i Pilar embotit Bertomeu,1 Bodega El Vi Finca Sta. Ontinyent 46870 96 238 06 38 www.bodegaelangosto.com Carnisseria Carn i C/ Ontinyent 46870 657 66 31 78 [email protected] Angosto Rosa. Ctra Donat embotit Caputxins, 1 www.carniceriadonat.es Fontanars (CV-660), Carnisseria Carn i C/ Dos de Ontinyent 46870 96 238 21 10 carnisseriaamparin@ km. 24 Amparin embotit Maig, 135 692 565 801 hotmail.com

Bodega Elfesu, Vi Apdo. Co- Ontinyent 46870 610 32 49 85 www.facebook.com/bodega- Carnisseria Carn i C/ La Ontinyent 46870 606 543 489 S.L. rreos 521 620 12 51 94 selfesu Vicent embotit Pau, 5 / Rafael [email protected] Carnisseria Carn i C/ Martínez Ontinyent 46870 96 238 30 36 [email protected] Sanchis Casa Vicent embotit Valls, 67 www.embotitscasavicent.es Seguí, 9 Carnisseria Carn i C/ Sant Ontinyent 46870 96 238 00 65 [email protected] Cervesa Cervesa P. Ind. El Ontinyent 46870 638 28 04 24 www.cervesagram.com Sant Antoni embotit Antoni, 4 609 689 174 Montcabrer - Pla, C/ dels 96 238 14 59 [email protected] Cervesa Gram Diables, 44 Carnisseria Carn i C/ Santa Ontinyent 46870 96 238 04 93 Medina embotit Rosa, 27 Coop. Vinícola Oli, vi i Avda. d’Al- Ontinyent 46870 96 238 08 49 [email protected] Onteniense meló d’or mansa, 17 96 238 44 19 www.coopontinyent.com Saladura i Embotits Pl. Bocairent 46880 669 60 86 61 blaisanchisesteve@gmail. Embotits Blai Ajuntament com Cerveza Cervesa on-line Ontinyent 46870 661 91 11 87 gerencia@antonitalamoderna. artesana com Formatgeria Formatge C/ de L’ Quatre- 46837 96 213 22 69 www.heretat.com Antoñita la [email protected] Heretat de Pere Heretat de tonda Moderna antonitalamoderna.com Pere, s/n

La Vall Formatge Pda. del Ontinyent 46870 96 291 05 14 Cerveses Mont- Cervesa C/ dels Ontinyent 46870 96 238 14 59 [email protected] Síscar, s/n cabrer S.L.U. Diables, 44 638 280 424 www.cervezagram.com 172 | 173 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Restaurants, wineries, traditional products and recipes

Name Product Direction Municipa- C.P Telephone Web or e-mail Name Product Direction Municipa- C.P Telephone Web or e-mail lity lity

Tomate estilo Tomaca Camí de Fontanars 46890 626 527 274 www.estilokiki.com La Travessa Melmela- C/ Sant Otos 46844 622 394 946 [email protected] Kikí las Naves dels alfo- [email protected] des Josep, 15 Artesanals. rins caseres Nave 1º Mel Silverio Mel Avda. del Quatre- 46837 96 226 44 96 [email protected] Distr Food Fruts secs Av. Montaver- 46892 96 070 57 57 administracion@foodfrudis. País Valen- tonda 646 555 842 Frudis Diputació ner 96 229 76 18 com cià, 3 Pastisseria Dolços Avda. de la Albaida 46860 96 239 08 44 www.pasteleriasoler.es Soler Fira, 19 [email protected]

Arrop El Manyo Arrop i C/ Torres Benigànim 46830 96 221 61 22 www.arropartesa.com talladetes

Casa de l’arrop Arrop i C/ Sènies, Benigànim 46830 96 221 62 80 [email protected] talladetes 13 607 301 106 [email protected]

Chocolates Xocolate Camí Benigànim 46830 96 221 54 50 www.chocolatesbenavent. Benavent Fondo, s/n 605 279 449 com 659 506 588 pedidos@chocolates- benavent.com

Pastisseria Mavi Dolços C/ San Juan Bocairent 46880 665 68 63 53 www.facebook.com/pastis- de Ribera, 6 seriamavi.bocairent [email protected]

Mel de Mel de C/ Azorin, Bocairent 46880 625 36 48 25 [email protected] Bocairent romer, de 23 timó, de flors de la mariola

Regala’t Mel, vi i C/ Sant Bocairent 46880 96 235 11 72 www.facebook.com/regalat. Bocairent herbero Roc, 20 638 312 424 bocairent [email protected]

Pastisseria C. Dolços C/ Furs, Ontinyent 46870 96 238 27 67 www.pastisseriaesteller.com Estellér 13B

Forn i Dolços C/ Les Eres, Ontinyent 46870 96 291 25 25 www.facebook.com/forn. pastisseria 10 i Avda. lermiteta L’Ermiteta Almaig, 45

Panificadora Dolços C/ de Cas- Ontinyent 46870 96 291 01 86 Brotons sià Fita, 9

Pasteleria Mora Dolços Pl. de la Ontinyent 46870 96 238 01 11 www.teodoromora.com Concepció, 635 815 645 [email protected] 15 174 | 175 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Restaurants, wineries, traditional products and recipes Recipes

More and more people are encouraged to Among the typical dishes and sweets that • Valencian paella take a trip, a getaway of a day or two, or gastronomically identify the towns of the • Stuffed peppers simply make trips of a few hours, motivated Vall d’Albaida region, and whose recipes • Potage by any event related to good cuisine or you can find in our gastronomic guide, • Gypsy arm with coffee cream attracted by the fame of the restaurants or include: local products in the area. • Pumpkin cake And it is that gastronomy is a pleasure • Rice with beans and turnips • Cristina’s cakes that awakens the 5 senses and that it is • Crusted rice • Corets, nouetes y encarats worth enjoying with the palate of each • Sausage salad from Ontinyent • Coffee meringues instant that offers us. But it must be borne • Monjàvena in mind that this modality can be perfectly • Shredded wheat • Nun or hope cakes combined with all the resources cultural, • Borreta heritage, traditional, festive and natural • Mushroom casserole • Sweet potato cakes. Sweet of sweet potato features of the Vall d’Albaida. • Baked rice casserole • Brandy rolls or anise rolls • Potatoes with cod • Roll of St. Blas Our region has always had a deep • Onion black pudding pie • Yolks and nuts gastronomic tradition. If you visit our towns, • Almond cake you will enjoy the hospitality of its people • Baked lamb shank and you will taste the typical dishes and • Pickled fish sweets made with the natural products of • Rabbit shoulder with honey and rosemary this region. • Mariola gazpacho • Christmas stewpot • Benicadell paella 176 | 177 Tourist guide of the Vall d’Albaida region

Hostel Albaida - La Casona 962900413 - Fontanars Ca La Iaia 676505426 - Albaida Don Bosco 962920054 - Aljorf de Albaida 658772428 dels Alforins 962 222 291 Accommodation 665929160 Bellús Casa 679530459 Masía 609609291 - Atzeneta El Regit 962359161 Rotja I La Nova 962222317 As important as a visit to the most d’Albaida Alcudia Casa Rotja 963515153 - enchanting corners of the Vall, it is a good L’Olleria Convent de 962200063 II 638450598 Llutxent El Mas de 962131282 - rest. And to rest, nothing better than Caputxins Xetà 673795036 Beniatjar Casa Frías 661526251 the wide and varied offer that our region Ontinyent Perú 962920054 - Ontinyent Casa de la 667219921 presents to its visitors. Terra 658131985 - Vila 665929160 Blanca del 658118161 Quatretonda Casa La 685633185 Benicadell Finca San 663882181 In this section you can find, in a structured Bastida Agustín way, references to different types of Benicolet Entre viejos 619365580 - olivos com- 630882000 Finca San- 663882181 accommodation, so it will be very easy for Tourist apartments plejo rural ta Elena you to find a place to rest that adapts to wellness Morera 962380162 - your needs. You will find from urban hotels, Atzeneta El 660044548 spa resort d’Albaida Benicadell 692670560 more focused on business trips, to rural Benigànim Las Orquí- 962217226 - Bellús Kurama 611 18 27 29 deas 610857136 El Palomar Els Horts 960110532 - houses, hostels or pensions. de Palomar 633512923 Ontinyent Apartamento 692820865 Benissuera L’Avia Tica 962293304 - turístico 678223447 Casa el 960110532 - In addition, for each accommodation we Xop 633512923 offer you a short review of the particular Bocairent Sant Vicent 660736774 place, and contact details, so that once you Mobile home Quatretonda L’Heretat 962132269 - Masía El 676470062 de Pere 666376968 have found the ideal accommodation, you L’Olleria Zona 962200601 Parral can contact its managers to formalize your Salem La Canal 627650294 Autocaravana Bekirent 601044446 de Salem reservation. Camping Mon 654113225 Granja San 962883515 - Mossén Miguel 663081221 Bocairent Mariola 962135160 El Canter 699328779 Sempere El Caserón 962293427 - El Palomar Font del Sis 610176444 - 663547430 Casa 717712373 677579034 Gimeno 669898681 Rugat Natura 962814166 - La Llar de 639520916 675492542 Laura Farm School Rural houses Mirador 678575488 - 621210568 Benigànim La Torreta 962920054 - Agullent El Paraís 667570200 - Mas l’Altet 626304142 961117400 del 665929160 Mariola Marqués El Molí 611 46 60 42 Ca Tudela 676417550 - Fariner Bocairent Mariola 962350593 - Tur 677523570 616713675 Aielo de Rafaelet 696918333 Carrícola Casa rural 607569886 Rugat Llutxent El Mas de 962131282 - carrícola Xetà 673795036 Albaida El Pansat 691 61 01 64 Casa 676960341 complejo Rafael rural La cova del 669604823 El Raconet 962391028 - Xapalló rural 655 354 622 178 | 179 Guía turística de la Vall d’Albaida

Hostel Camping area

Carrícola Carrícola 960992511 Bocairent Font de 012 Mariola Ontinyent Ontinyent 621301089 rooms C Villa 650202156 Carmen Hotel L’Olleria El Rodat 962200601 Aielo de La Vall ** 962904386 Ontinyent Font de 012 Malferit gamellons Benissoda La Sitja ** 962398570 Bocairent L’Àgora *** 962355039 L’Estació 962350000 *** Masqi 965 567 232 - 699 094 440 L’Olleria Gasaqui 962360608 - *** 607566565 Ontinyent Kazar **** 962382443 Otos Ca Les 962358032 - Senyortes * 620588724

Vacation Rentals

Otos L’Ereta del 615130542 Passet

Bed & Breakfast

Albaida Tarifa 962390616 - 625 079 475 Castelló de Benicadell 962813074 - Rugat 609486412 Ontinyent Monterrey 962381293 Casa 962383518 - Roberto 625619423 - Nou Tibot 180 | 181

Active tourism 182 | 183

Active tourism

La Sària Turisme Rural and leisure complex El Mas de Cultural routes, hiking and cycling Xetà C/ Bisbe Miró, 27 Camí de Xetá, s/n Bocairent (Valencia) Llutxent (Valencia) Tel. 635 120 029 Tel. 962 131 282 www.lasaria.com [email protected] www.elmasdexeta.com Totglobo Balloon rides, active tourism Tronkos y Barrancos C/ Els Clots, s/n Adventure Sports Bocairent (Valencia) Tel. 636 933 119 Tel. 629 611 889 www.tronkosybarrancos.com www.totglobo.com

En ruta ADFOS Tourism, leisure and adventure Active tourism training, leisure, health Tel: 662519566 / 616 859 543 Av. Sant Blai, 6 [email protected] Bocairent (Valencia) Tel. 654 522 954 [email protected] LazyPedals www.adfos.es C/ José Simo Marin 6-9, Ontinyent (Valencia) Club S.M. Amics de la Creu de la Tel: 676 827 566 [email protected] Serratella Climbing wall Municipal sports center Aeroclub Balica Aielo de Malferit (Valencia) Partida el Pinaret s/n Tel. 962 36 30 10 Tel: 617526690 / 685969654 [email protected] www.residenciabalica.com www.aielodemalferit.es [email protected]

Sala Boulder Interpretation Center of Mariola Climbing wall Mountain range Natural Park Av. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n d’Ull de Canals, CV-795, km-17, Llutxent (Valencia) Banyeres de Mariola (Alicante) Tel: 962 29 40 01 Tel: 965937961 [email protected] [email protected] www.llutxent.es 184 | 185 186 | 187

Inland experience

Edition: 2020

Design and layout: democràcia estudi Makes: Mancomunitat de Municipis de la Vall d’Albaida. Texts: Mancomunitat de Municipis de La Vall d’Albaida, Ajuntaments de la Vall d’Albaida and democràcia estudi. Photos: Asociación fotográfica de Bocairent, Lupe Muñoz, Daniel González, Rafa Jordà, Vicent Herrero, Leonardo Llobregat, Paco Alberca, Jesús Nadal, Vicent Ordiñana, Raúl Carbonell and J.M. Cabanes. Fotos de las empresas de turismo activo and servicios turísticos, Motoclub d’Albaida y de archivo de la Vall d’Albaida.