Ontinyent area information ( ontiniente ) Ontinyent tourist information

The Earth of the sources

Without a doubt the paradise of the water lives in the entrails of this earth, and blooms within the same city by an enormous amount of mouths that have scattered an enormous patrimony of sources.

Crossing the streets of Ontinyent you will discovered the Font of the Llavador of Stonecutting or the one of the Gunner, by where it crosses the Almansa-Gandía highway. In the heart of the city, in the Plaça of l' Ajuntament it is possible to drink from the Font located at the bottom of the Cantalar of the Ball, and just beyond, in the Carrer Sant Jaume, inside a house it brings forth the Font of the Marquess. Between perrons and lofty streets you will find historic stone monoliths where for more than a century water has been running and is still being drunk by the locals to this day.
 
Gamellons

An trip towards the base of the mountain range leads to a shady place where the trail forks and takes you to Fontanars dels Alforins.

Gamellons celebrates its landscaping value around a source and a merendero. One is one of the few landscapes that have survived the fire. Gamellons is an escape to the tranquillity, a place where one feels surrounded by the Mediterranean vegetation, only, by vegetal species and animals that still can be found in this wild refuge
The oasis of the Pou Clar

Overcoming the course of the river the most beautiful place is conquered, where the water breathes crystalline frost and, and in each jump the Clariano arises. The Pou Clar is a rock garden i backwaters, modeled by the whim of the river that is born here.

Between chopos and pines they appear the Pou de Reixa, the Pou dels Esclaus, the Pou Gelat, the Pou Fosc and the Pou of the Cavalls, that form an unforgettable landscape that it invites to enjoy the nature in its purer state.

In the rocks refined by the action of the continuous current the known ones like Finestres of the Moors appear escavadas in the stone, who served at their time like barns and warehouses as foods.
Sant Esteve, the viewpoint

In the balcony of the term still it is left still on the sanctuary where they got working from the field to implorar that the pedrisco happened of length.

In this imposing frame the privilege is obtained to shuffle, just by a glance the white valley, the Benicadell and like bottom drop curtain, the Serra de Mariola.

The hermitage of Sant Esteve allows to show itself to all the region of the Vall d' Albaida that from this point is descried like a full picture of color impressions. There is a earth inside the Valencian Community, where the water is born, where the stones count histories, where still is possible to give a stroll at dusk and to forget the worldly noise.

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   Escudo
Country   Spain
Com. Independent   Valencian community
Province   Valencia
Region   d'Albaida Vall
Location   38º 49 ' North 00º 36 ' the West
Altitude   382 ms
Distance   84 km from Valencia to Ontinyent
Surface   125 ' 4 km ²
Population   35.517 hab. 2005
Density   283 ' 2 hab. /km ² 2005
Gentilicio   Ontiñentino/a
Predominant language   Valencian
Postal code   46870
Greater celebrations   Penultimate week of August
Web site   http://www.ontinyent.ws

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