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Torrevieja Greenway

This Greenway begins near the leisure park, the Habanera Museum and the Salt Industry Interpretation Centre. We soon see the huge mountains of salt as we travel through the Mata and Torrevieja Lagoons. We skirt the Torrevieja lagoon, considered the largest saltwater lagoon in Europe, with a 25-km perimeter, measuring 7 km in length. This Natural Park is one of the most important in the Region of Valencia, and is the largest lagoon after the Albufera of Valencia.

Maigmó Greenway

Built during Primo de Ribera's dictatorship on complex orography, this railway posed a challenge to engineers at the time. Infrastructure work was completed in 1932, but the Civil War put a halt to it and the tracks were never laid. Reports from the 1960s dismissed lengthening it, and in 1984, the old platform was used for other purposes. 

Ibi Greenway

A very short route in the urban perimeter area of the city of Ibi, with alternating almond and olive groves. The old abandoned track runs through the wide agricultural valley separating the Menejador mountains (to the north), forming part of the Carrascar de la Font Roja Natural Park, and the Cuartel mountains to the south.

Xixarra Greenway

Also known as the Virtudes Greenway, the name Xixarra (Cicada) comes from the term used to refer to Alicante's trains, because of their exterior aspect and the monotonous sound of the locomotives compared with the sound of the cicadas, so abundant along the entire route.

Alcoi greenway

This is built over the old Alcoi-Alicante railway, used to export products manufactured in Alcoi. As soon as we leave the city, the route brings us to the Carrascar de la Font Roja Natural Park. We can enjoy the highly diverse landscape in the area, riding amongst pine trees, kermes oak, alder, ash and Valencian oak. 

Dénia Greenway

This Greenway was initially inaugurated as a route within the Natural Pathway network. Follow the route of the old Carcaixent-Dénia railway that transported oranges to the ports of Gandía and Dénia for exportation.

Safor Greenway

Of the 66 km travelled by the "Carcaixent-Dénia trenet (Carcaixent-Dénia little train)," only 13 were recovered, in the Els Poblets-Dénia section (Dénia Greenway), and the section between Gandía and Oliva.  The latter, known as the Safor Greenway, crosses beautiful orange groves between the two cities. It leads us to discover extraordinary monuments in both cities, especially the Borgia Castle in Gandía, and the Casa Mayans, secondary headquarters of the MUVIM.

Xurra Greenway

To the north of the city of Valencia, a large part of the Horta of Valencia, or the Vega del Túria, as it was once called, has been conserved. While riding amongst typical crops, note the tiger nut, used to make the highly-valued Alboraia orxata.

Llíria Greenway

In 2014, the necessary adaptations to make it a Greenway were made to the old railway route that joined Llíria and Valencia. This section, passing through the municipality of Benaguacil, had been in disuse.

The course begins at the old Llíria train station building, and ends in Molinet, an old Benaguacil halt, near the paper factory. This location has a rest area, trees to provide shade, tables and bicycle parking.

Ojos Negros Greenway

Ojos Negros Greenway is the longest in Spain. It begins in Ojos Negros mines, in Sierra Menera (Teruel), and ends in Sagunto. The iron mineral was transported by railway from its starting point to the port of Sagunto, and only operated for fifty years. It was inaugurated in 1907.