The deep valley
If in the previous stages we only pass through three towns, Bocairent, Fontanars and Aielo de Malferit, in the stages that continue we will cross most of the villages of the Vall. In the section that concerns us, we will travel the northern limits of the region and enter the spectacular surroundings of the Buixcarró mountain. A stage where the culture, peoples and nature are combined the most remote and less altered of our entire journey. This contrast from the cultivated fields and humanized landscape to the forests and ravines in an almost primal state of the Pinet environment, is what gives value and enriches this third stage of our journey. L’Ollería, Bellús and Quatretonda retain in their term interesting and valuable mountain landscapes, such as the environment of the house of the Salido and the ravine of the same name, the Estret de les Aigües and the refuge of the Bastida. And in Pinet, a small town of just two hundred inhabitants, begins the Buixcarró mountain range where there is still a small forest of cork oaks, microreserva of flora and protected natural landscape and to which we dedicate a thematic route. Llutxent will be the end of the stage, where two other thematic routes begin: the route of Jaume I and the Corporals pathway.
