Attractions and Places To See around Massalavés - Top 20

It is a cable-stayed bridge with an arch. It consists of a section with a span of 72 meters supported by powerful retaining walls. The platform is supported by two parallel tension arches 6.01 meters apart. The height of the arches is 8.90 m. The structure is reinforced by 32 vertical beams connected transversely and in the shape of a St. Andrew's cross. At its ends, the work rests on metal hinges that are embedded in the ashlar buttresses. Source and further information about the bridge at: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_hierro_sobre_el_Júcar_en_Alcira

The Pont de Ferro del Xúquer as it passes through Gavarda is from the beginning of the 20th century (1917). The Real road from Valencia to Albacete passes over it. The author of the project was engineer Enrique Tamarit. The Bow-String beam, with a span of 70 m, is one of the five metal sections that make up the 137 meter long bridge, the other four metal sections are straight beams from Sant Andrés crossings (12' 5 meters of light) and are located on the left bank of the bridge. When the Gavarda variant was built in the sixties, it was incorporated into the V-305 local road from Gavarda to Beneixida. The restoration works ended in 1993.

The Assut d'Antella is an essential part of the hydraulic infrastructure of the Séquia Reial del Xúquer, as it functions as a dam that diverts part of its water from the river to the ditch. Considered as a fluvial beach with a crowning height of 3 meters and a dam length of 315 meters, we find the Assut d'Antella between the Xúquer River and the foothills of the Tous mountain range. Without a doubt, the weir is the most well-known natural site in the town, and for which hundreds of tourists come to visit Antella every year, and to enjoy the waters of the river swimming with friends or family. In addition, its importance can be identified at a glance by finding it represented on the town's coat of arms.

Les Salines de Manuel is a municipal natural site of 28 hectares, of great landscape value, which is located next to the town of Manuel. It is a protected space of high ecological and historical value, as it was an old salt mine of the army, now turned into a large green lung. The exploitation was possible thanks to the composition of the so-called Serra de les Salines, formed by a rich combination of mineral salts from sandy rocks, limestone, reddish clay and other materials, giving rise to what we know as "common salt" . Due to the presence of all these minerals, the vegetation has the particular characteristic of being different from that of other places, either because of the adaptation to the terrain or because of the abundant foliage. This is why the site of Les Salines de Manuel houses two very different types of vegetation. On the one hand, the white pine forest with its traditional companions (lentiscle, coscolla, margallon, rosemary, rudder, buckthorn, juniper, etc.); and for another, the saline outcrops, where a Valencian endemic known as Limonium mansanetianum grows in honor of José Mansanet, the great botanist of Simat de la Valldigna. Next to this grass, capable of filtering salt water and expelling the salt through the leaves, grow several tamarinds, trees more typical of coastal areas. The circular route of the area, known as the Ruta de la Sal, is divided into 3 paths, which make up a total of approximately 4 kilometers, all signposted. On the way, you will meet a hill called the "wall of bullets", used in the past for shooting exercises by the army, which had an Engineers and Sappers School here between 1906 and 1996. There is also the Paret del Moro , which are the remains of a Muslim fortification from the 10th century; the remains of an old machine gun nest and trenches; buildings of the old salt exploitation; or the birth of salt water that supplied the salt pans, as well as the recreational area. Les Salines de Manuel, full of vegetation and pines adapted to salt, was exploited since ancient times by the Romans, being handed over a little over a century ago to the army, who finally handed it over to the population to be recovered for the use and enjoyment of visitors as a natural site. The military use lasted until 1996, although it was not until 2006 when the Manuel City Council acquired the land to be used for sports, a rural tourism center and the adaptation of the area as a municipal natural site and the adaptation of various hiking routes.

Nice route through a beautiful landscape. The route runs on agricultural, paved paths and occasionally asphalt. Nice section.

Great landscape

A very nice road, mostly in good condition, running along the old train route that linked Carcaixent with Gandía and Denia and which today allows reaching Tavernes beach. Some sectors of the route are shared with secondary roads, although most of it runs along gravel lanes exclusively for cycling or hiking. It is a path without technical difficulty, ideal to enjoy the landscape, which is very beautiful in itself!

The iron bridge over the Júcar in Alzira is a bridge that connects the city center with the Barraques district. The need for this bridge arose as a result of the flood of St. Charles Day in 1864. The General Directorate of Public Works of the State commissioned the project in 1899 to Enrique González Granda, but the work did not go to begin until 1911 and finalized in 1918. It replaced the bridge of Sant Gregori, which had been built in the 14th century, which survived until 1921, and which was attributed to the fact that the town was flooded in case of floods. It is a single arched bridge. It consists of a section of 72 meters of light supported by powerful retaining walls.