Discover Barx: Hiking Trails, History and Local Specialties

The PR-CV 60 Barx–La Drova is a 10.60-kilometre circular route that begins at C. Ausias March 45 in Barx. The PR-CV 60.1 Senda de la Marjaleta del Pi is 3.50 kilometres long; Barx serves as its reference municipality. The different route lengths provide a clear basis for comparison when you want to compare longer and shorter hiking routes. Numerous short hiking trails run through the municipality of Barx. The PR-CV 60 passes through the Barranc de Manesa flora micro-reserve. The PR-CV 60 runs very close to the Nevera de Barx. The Ruta dels Monestirs GR-236 also passes through Barx. The Mirador de la Visteta offers a panoramic view.

History and Townscape

The Cova de les Malladetes is an archaeologically significant site in the Mondúver mountain system of Barx. Traces of societies from the Upper Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods were discovered in the Cova de les Malladetes. Finds from the Cova de les Malladetes can be viewed at the Museu de Prehistòria de València or the Museu Arqueològic de Gandia. The parish church of San Miguel Arcángel in Barx dates from the 17th to the 19th century. Plaça de la Constitució is considered the original centre of Barx. The Nevera de Barx dates from the 18th century; it was used to store snow that fell in winter and use it in summer. The riu-rau in Barx were formerly used to dry fruit.

Local Flavours and Festivals

Local specialties from Barx include the sweet treats mones, pastissos and rossegons, figatells and rosemary honey. Barx's main festivals take place in the third week of August in honour of the Divina Pastora and Saint Michael. The gastronomic Mercat de la Terra has taken place since 2016, with the exception of the pandemic period. This information offers several ways to discover Barx: through routes, archaeological finds and architectural history, or through local specialties and festivals. Depending on your preferred focus, you can give the topics different weight and compare the descriptions at your own pace. The route lengths and the fixed festival week provide different points of reference in time.

When comparing a holiday apartment in Barx, you can check the travel period, room category and cancellation conditions side by side on the respective listing page. Such an overview of the key conditions leaves the content planning open to you: you can choose between hiking themes, archaeological traces, local history, festivals and local specialties according to your own focus. The combination of nature and route topics, archaeological finds, architectural history, festivals and regional products offers various thematic focuses without requiring these topics to be linked into a single sequence or a fixed daily schedule.

Other Places

For further orientation, you can find Gilet, Rugat, Turís, Moncada, Ador, Museros, Beniarjó and Chulilla here.

For the overarching travel overview: Valencia.