The Route of the Valencian classics,, is a cultural route through the lands of the great classical writers of the Valencian literature of the Valencian Golden Age: Ausiàs March, Joanot Martorell and Joan Roís de Corella, the three related to the court of the Duke Alfonso of Aragon and Foix, "the Old". The route evokes the Valencian 15th century and its heritage, of the sea, of valleys and mountains, of gastronomy and wines, and the various accents of the Valencian language with the echoes of the immortal words of the most universal Valencian writers.
Itinerary
The route includes the following monuments and towns: Gandía:
Collegiate Basilica of Gandia: Example of Valencian religious Gothic, returns us the echo of classics and also the Borgia family, that consolidating the Duchy of Gandia in 1485.
Ducal Palace of Gandia: In the Ducal Palace of Gandia these valencian classical writers were entered in the letters and arts of chivalry.
Convent of Santa Clara: Its artistic treasure recalls the splendour of the ancient Duchy of Gandia. A canvas of walls from the 14th century on the river Serpis closes the medieval remains of the city.
Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba: The father, Pere March, and the two wives of the well-known Valencian medieval poet Ausiàs March are buried in this monastery. The monastery is one of the most historic monastic constructions in the Valencian Community.
Palace of Milà i Aragó: The remains of the walls from the 15th century configure a monumental heritage. Inside this palace nowaydays is the International Museum of Puppets of Albaida.
Segrelles Museum: House Museum of the valencian painter Josep Segrelles.
Cocentaina:
Palace of the Counts of Cocentaina: This palace belonged to the Rois de Corella family in the 15th century. Here we can also find towers and canvases of the wall, the medieval quarter.
Cocentaina Castle: The castle dominates the whole region. Through these mountains we will find the fridges, snow deposits that were used for th ice trade.
The valley of Xaló: In search of the sea, it is obligatory to go through a land of mountains: the valleys of the Marina Alta, where Al-Azraq, the Muslim leader, resisted the Aragonese conquest in the 13th century. The valley of Xaló belonged to the Martorell and the March families. Xaló
Manor house of the Martorell: In Xaló we can find this manor house of the writer Joanot Martorell refurbished in the 19th century.
Route of the Martorell
Dénia: Alfonso of Aragon and Foix was also count of Denia, a city ruled by an attorney general and Ausias’s father, called Pere March.
Castle of Denia: On the walls and the castle, a contemporary of Ausias drew some graffiti or engravings of ships which were in the harbour. This is March’s maritime landscape and it is evoked in the play written by Joanot Martorell, Tirant lo Blanch. Visits to the Raset quarter, the Rotes coves, the feet of Montgo mountain are a must.
