MUSEO ALCOYANO DE LA FIESTA (MAF): Museum of the Moors and Christians Festival in Alcoy for a better interpretation of the festival of International Tourist Interest. Divided into three different floors that include music, posters, the history of Saint George, the festive Trilogy and the festive world.
General 3 €. Students, retirees and groups 1,5 €. Children under 5 years free.
DISCOVER ALCOY:
You are going to visit the city of Alcoy! You can not miss a single detail, that is why the → official guides ← of the area put at your disposal the routes developed for the enjoyment of young and old.
Privileged enclave where you can enjoy the vegetation of the Mediterranean mixed forest. Natural site par excellence in the province of Alicante, perfect setting for hiking and nature tourism. Inside the park, there is the sanctuary of the Virgen de los Lirios, enabled so that it can be accessed by car. The highest peak of the natural park is El Menejador. In the viewpoint you can see a good part of the natural park massif and the surrounding mountains and, with luck, the pair of Bonelli’s eagles that nest on one of the cliffs of the area. In this area there is also the Cava Coloma, a pool of snow that once served to accumulate it and trade in ice.
Cemacam Hours: 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Tickets: Free access to Cemacam. Free access to the Natural Park.
The Barranc del Cinct is also an ideal place for hiking, since it goes from the city into the Sierra de Mariola, which is characterized by the variety and quantity of aromatic and medicinal herbs. The mountains also have a leisure space known as El Preventorio. Near the summit where the cross of San Cristóbal is located, you can see a vulture feeder.
About ten kilometers from the town, in La Sarga, there are these cave paintings with scenes of hunting, gathering, as well as figurative and schematic motifs, which have been dated to a date close to 7,000 years ago, in the ancient Neolithic. Currently, they are protected by a fence that separates them a few meters from the visitor.
This Plaza Mayor – called Plaça de Dins – preserves the classicist arches of the cloister of the Convent of San Agustín, built in the fourteenth century and subsequently renovated, which after the confiscation of the assets of the Church and religious communities in 1837, was acquired by the City Council and enabled for housing and the market. The architect author of the reform and expansion was José Moltó Valor. In one of the entrances to this square, from Sant Tomàs street, there is a Gothic arch, the only vestige of the Church of San Agustín that stood next to the convent.
About five kilometers from the town are these ruins, on top of a mountain that cannot be accessed by car. After the walking tour you can see a set of remains of buildings that correspond to an Iberian settlement.
Observations: Consult visiting conditions. It is not accessible by car.
It is one of the few testimonies that has been preserved of the medieval walls that were built around La Vila, or the first enclosure of medieval Alcoy, whose construction was carried out throughout the second half of the 13th century. The tower presents its base, the entrance door and the corners with stone ashlars, and the rammed earth was also used in its construction. Rehabilitated in 2002, its strategic location allows a wide visual domain over the Riquer river and the departure of the Tints.
The city of Alcoy has a long industrial tradition. Its interior location was a major drawback to output its products. To solve this problem, narrow-gauge railways were laid to communicate it with the port of Gandía and with the broad-gauge railway in the distant town of Villena. But Alcoyan aspirations pointed to a wide-gauge railway, of greater capacity, that would connect it with the port of Alicante, more important than the modest Grao de Gandía. Thus, under the Guadalhorce Railways Plan, in the midst of the General Primo de Rivera dictatorship, dizzying works began that managed to create 66 km of railway infrastructure, using all the engineering resources of those times. The civil war, the postwar period and its miseries prevented the tracks from being laid and the railway from being opened to service, being definitively forgotten among these Alicante mountains.
Observations: Length: 10 km. Type of pavement: Mixed, asphalt (7.6 km) and compacted earth (2.4 km). Infrastructure: 10 tunnels and 3 viaducts.
