Fontanars dels Alforins

FONTANARS DEL ALFORINS

Population: 979 hab. Municipal area: 74,7 km2 Altitude: 628 m. Demonym: alforiner, alforinera Town Hall Phone no.: 96 222 22 33 Web: www.fontanarsdelsalforins.es E-mail: registre@fontanarsdelsalforins.es cultura@fontanarsdelsalforins.es

FONTANARS DELS ALFORINS

MONUMENTS

Fontanars dels Alforins is a recent municipality. Independent of Ontinyent in 1927, its urban center develops basically during the twentieth century forming straight and flat streets where the parish church and its bell tower stand out.

Parish Church of Our Lady of the Rosary

It is located on the old hermitage of San Miguel and San Antonio Abad. This hermitage began to be built in the sixteenth

century and was a subsidiary of the church of Santa Maria de Ontinyent until December 31, 1953 was converted into a parish, by Mr. Marcelino Olaechea y Loizaga, Archbishop of Valencia. It consists of a ship with buttresses and covered by cannon turn that rests on Corinthian pillars.

Bell tower

Built in 1916 from a tower already built in 1864. It stands out for its characteristic and peculiar blue and white cover and for

a central body with neomudéjar toppings. Signed by the architect Cortina, it is topped by a sphere with stars and the zodiac signs, representing the universe and a large vane that marks the different winds.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS Ca Vidal

Small hamlet located a few km from the town center, which can be accessed by the pedestrian road and bike path.

Cellars

Fontanars dels Alforins offers a varied wine tourism offer thanks to the landscape that forms the cultivation of the vineyard and the numerous wineries located in old and historic properties. Some can be visited and in them you can know the whole process of elaboration and tastings of the wines that are produced in them.

Sunday Market

Takes place every Sunday in the Plaza Virgen del Rosario.

Lime kilns

Five itineraries for hiking and/or cycling were restored and designed to get to know this cultural, industrial and architectural heritage.

Peres’s ravine recreation area

Located on the CV-657 road in the direction of Beneixama.

Les Piles recreation area

Located only 1.5 km from the village, you can access on foot along the way of the Sort.

Alto del Moro Forest House

Former forestry house built during the twentieth century, currently in disuse, is a place to admire our entire municipal term.

FESTIVITIES

January: festivities of San Antonio Abad Late June: feast of “Festeras y Quintos” Late August, early September: patron saint festivities of Moors and Christians

EXCURSIONS Walking routes

• Via Augusta Trail, Moixent-la Zafra section. *Auxiliary branch of 6 km, connecting the Moixent and Vinalopó sectors of the authentic Via Augusta • Route 1 of the eco-guide of environmental and cultural itineraries in the Vall d’Albaida region • Lime Route • Cultural landscape itineraries • Route to the Moro forest house

LOCAL PRODUCTS

• Gatxamiga • Gold melon • Wine. Especially the verdil, macabeo and merseguera variety for white wines and monastrell, forcallà, arco, bonicaire and garnacha wines for red wines. • Mona de Pasqua (a traditional sweet eaten on Easter) • Pumpkins

LINKS OF INTEREST

www.terresdelsalforins.es