L´Assut de Antella Rural Tourism Centre, beside the River Júcar, is the perfect spot for outdoor leisure and adventure programmes, just 45 kilometres away from Valencia. The centre, standing in a spectacularly beautiful setting, has capacity for 54 people in rooms with up to 6 beds in a modern, two-storey building next to L’Assut de Antella, where the water of the River Júcar arrives and accumulates. The company Desconecta offers a wide variety of sporting activities, arranged by level. Canoeing, climbing, the climbing wall, archery or abseiling, trekking and mountain-biking, pot-holing, orienteering, activities for schools or the water route are just some of the rural centre’s activities. Next to L’Assut, there is a zone prepared for bathing and bicycles can be hired.

An environment designed for the enjoyment, for relaxation or meditation, where the senses are amplified. A combination of mountain and water spiced with the aroma of fine orange blossom wrapped in a single area that can develop activities or simply release tension. Come and enjoy. (more…)

The journey from Santa Pola to Tabarca is a unique spectacle, an incredible mosaic of scenery, land and sea. The crossing is a short trip, barely three miles, leaving behind the salt flats and sailing from Santa Pola’s beaches, some rocky, some with fine sand, to the flat island of Tabarca. The island, the only one inhabited in the Region of Valencia, is a genuine natural monument. The human aspect of its single town complements a beautiful, virtually-unknown protected area.

Santa Pola, a perfect example of a Mediterranean fishing town, is the starting point for a journey through nature, history and local tradition, passing peacefully from rocky coves to sandy beaches and from La Sierra to the Albufera area of Las Salinas. Ancient civilisations left their mark on Santa Pola. A walled, Iberian town from the 4th century before Christ is the first example. The town has a fishing port that has boasted its fame since the time of the Romans, who called it Portus Ilicitanus. Remains from that period can also be seen in the luxurious Roman villa of El Palmeral and in the fish-salting factory from the 4th century before Christ, next to the Iberian excavation.

The castle, a magnificent example of 16th-century Renaissance military architecture, was built for King Felipe II as a defence against attacking pirates from the northern coast of Africa. Its purpose nowadays is to exhibit Santa Pola’s history and culture: it houses two Museums, the exhibition hall, the bastion of the Duke of Arcos and the Chapel of La Virgen de Loreto. The aquarium, another highly-recommended visit in Santa Pola, covers an area of 700 square metres and its central hall contains nine large tanks with Mediterranean flora and fauna. Santa Pola’s three watch towers – Tamarit Tower in Las Salinas, Escaletes in La Sierra and Atalayola at the modern, day lighthouse, were built in 1552 to prevent attacks from the Berbers. (more…)

The new web page for Montanejos thermal villa, in the province of Castellón, is a complete, modern tool helping to reinforce the district’s large number and variety of tourist attractions and resources and it has been promoted by the Tourist Dynamisation Plan that Montanejos is implementing.

This new promotion tool has been created following the concept of an integral web page and provides information, of interest both for users or potential visitors and for locals of Montanejos, on the geographical location, hotels, restaurants, health tourism, wildlife and sport, complementary offers, tourist promotion, leisure agenda, dynamisation plan and business area. (more…)