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BENISSODA Following the water course This municipality has the charm of small towns, but with an added value: to have a past that has led it to be what it is today and unique natural resources where water is very present. In this sense, thanks to the Muslim population that remained after the conquest, he inherited a system of irrigation of great wealth. In addition, the Benissodanos love tradition, as it shows with the Ethnological Museum of Vall d’Albaida region, which together with the route of ‘Els camins de l’aigua’ (The paths of the water) and the sundial of Joan Olivares and Rafael Amorós constitute three reasons to visit Benissoda, if that you haven’t been there yet.
A system of irrigation of great value Water is synonymous with life and according to this premise, Benissoda has a great natural wealth. If you visit the town you can follow the water course and direct your steps along the itinerary ‘Els camins de l’aigua’ (The paths of the water) that will take you to unique places. Washing facilities, fountains, rafts, births, wells, places... everything leads in this municipality to enjoy nature and water. The starting point is in the Dalt washing facility, a space that reminds us of past prints, when the neighborhood washed its clothes
while catching up on the latest news of the population. A washing facility that precisely gets its name from the Raft of Dalt, which is located a little higher. There, there is an infrastructure that collects the water from the l’Olivera fountain and distributes it to the washing facility, but also to water the garden. It is at this point that you will realize the meaning of this itinerary: know the old orchard roads and the the hydraulic infrastructures inherited from the Muslims who have come to us to this day. And it is at the birth of the fountain of l’Olivera, historically of abundant flow, where we find
