ACTIVITIES
In
direct bonding with the nature you can be contemplate the native
fauna and the flora, the uses and cultures of the farmers, the old
drains and the cattle ways, the names and the history of the
farmhouses, games and towns of the zone and great amount of new far
from easy experiences to find so near the city of Valencia nor, even,
to forget.
If you decide
to spend a likeable day with your friends, companions or
relatives in the Montoliu's Barraca, far from contamination,
the noise
and the cotidianidad, you do not doubt it, - to here so single 6 kms.
of Valencia you will find what you need: tranquillity, diversion and
good table.
The
Montoliu will approach to you one of places oldest is unknown of
this unique orchard in Europe that is the Orchard of Valencia. By
means of its strolls in tartana and horses you will have the occasion
to cross and to enjoy the Xarco, ancestral point of contact of the
neighboring towns during Easter; as well as of the old one Via
Augusta, by which they were left antiguasValentia and Saguntum with
the Roman civilization united; to see farmhouses, some of them - like
farmhouse of Towns more than centennial, or old places of Teuladella
and Mahuella (where it seems to be that in s. XV there was a
benedictine convent, that was visited by the Pope Moon, that in the
days of fray Bonifacio Ferrer was gotten up to the Cartuja de
Portaceli); the drains, the ways or the footpaths, and their peculiar
toponymy; as well as the fauna and the flora.