The museum route in la Costera
La Costera is a land of museums. This route includes 18 locations between museums, museographic collections and other collections that can be visited. It is not a little thing for a region with 19 towns and a population of around seventy-thousand people.
The museum route in la Costera
La Costera is a land of museums. This route includes 18 locations between museums, museographic collections and other collections that can be visited. It is not a little thing for a region with 19 towns and a population of around seventy-thousand people.
Understand our essence
Our museums are another way for you to experience our lands. La Costera is a living land and a land of museums that show it. Making our museums your travel companions is one of the best ways to enjoy the life experience that the places and people of la Costera can bring you.
La Costera area is a living land of museums. From the Font de la Figuera, the first Valencian town and western landmark of the Region, to the Genovés and the Llosa de Ranes in the east we can enjoy ethnological, fine arts, archaeological, sports, historical museums and so on. Spaces where you can get to know what we were, what we are and what we project to be in the future.
HISTORICAL - ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM 'LA COSTERA'
Inside we can find spaces dedicated to winemaking procedures, and other elements related to its commercial production, such as box labeling materials. The museum does not leave out other elements of interest such as traditional homes, an oil mill, or the Maldonado Ferri distillery, which is a remembrance of an activity that was very important in the area. We can also find spaces dedicated to traditional agricultural activities and other pieces related to the daily life of our close ancestors.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF MOIXENT
Its collection shows pieces ranging from the Neolithic (5,000-3000 BC) to the 16th century. That is to say; From the first societies that settled and dedicated themselves to agriculture and livestock up to the modern age society, which was the base of today's society.
Along the way of its historical track, we will also find Roman, and Andalusian remains and especially the sites that have made Moixent's Iberian past famous. In the museum we can enjoy objects recovered from sites so important to understand our past such as the Bastida de les Alcusses, the Corral de Saus, the Bosquet and the Torre Mora.
Along the way of its historical track, we will also find Roman, and Andalusian remains and especially the sites that have made Moixent's Iberian past famous. In the museum we can enjoy objects recovered from sites so important to understand our past such as the Bastida de les Alcusses, the Corral de Saus, the Bosquet and the Torre Mora.
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PADRE MORENO MUSEUM
In Moixent we can also find the Padre Moreno Museum, located in what used to be the Chapel of the Holy Relics of the old Franciscan convent, founded by this illustrious person back in the 16th century. The museum is dedicated to the interpretation of the religious life and compiles pieces of the old convent that was absorbed by the current urban area.
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MUNICIPAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF VALLADA
Following the A-35 we will arrive at the town of Vallada where another museum, the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Vallada, will show us materials from numerous sites of the town. The exhibition shows pieces from the Paleolithic period (approx. 14,000 BC) to the times of the first medieval Christian settlements (13th-14th century AC). This is a veteran museum, inaugurated in 1978 by the hand of the illustrious Fletcher Valls.
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PARISH MUSEUM
The Parish Museum was created to showcase the important artistic legacy of the town, as the result of having housed the castle-convent headed by the ancient order of Montesa for five centuries. Archaeological materials from the castle and other parts of the town were added to this collection. The building in which the museum is located used to be the house of the Knight Sots-Clauer, who was appointed by the Order of Montesa to administer on their behalf the towns of Montesa and Vallada.
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THE OIL MUSEUM
This museum center is housed the ancient oil mill. It was inaugurated in 2010 recovering the machinery that was installed in 1948, by a group related to the Agrarian Union, to centralize and modernize oil production in Montesa compared to more traditional oil mills. Over time, the establishment was transformed into a cooperative that closed in the 80s of the 20th century. The explanatory signs in the center show us the oil manufacturing process and the function of the machinery.
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RICARDO TORMO PERMANENT EXHIBITION
Following the A-35 from Montesa, we will arrive at the municipality of Canals. This is where Ricardo Tormo was born, the motorcyclist who won the world championship twice and three times in Spain.
In the Ricardo Tormo Permanent Exhibition, located in the municipal pavilion of the same name, we can see some of his awards and part of the equipment he used to wear (overalls, helmets, boots, gloves...), together with other personal elements such as paintings, photographs, titles, etc. that show us the life of the champion of Canals.
In the Ricardo Tormo Permanent Exhibition, located in the municipal pavilion of the same name, we can see some of his awards and part of the equipment he used to wear (overalls, helmets, boots, gloves...), together with other personal elements such as paintings, photographs, titles, etc. that show us the life of the champion of Canals.
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MUNICIPAL ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF TORRELLA
We will arrive at Torrella by following the CV-593. In the town hall building we can visit the Municipal Ethnological Museum of Torrella. The museum's collection is structured around different rooms of a home, with spaces such as the kitchen, chambers, living rooms and next to them, spaces dedicated to traditional activities such as the production of oil and wine or tools dedicated to agriculture, livestock, tobacco cultivation or esparto work.
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LUIS PERALES ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Llanera de Ranes is located next to the town of Torrella. There we can find two other museums. The Luís Perales Ethnological Museum showcase a collection of several pieces related to traditional life, ranging from utensils of various trades and field work tools to domestic furniture and its evolution. In addition, we can find a curious exhibition that collects tobacco boxes and other objects and materials related to this habit.
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RAFEL BOLUDA MUSEUM
Rafael Boluda is known for his many artistic facets, ranging from illustration and posters to comic drawing and design, including watercolors and paintings. In the Rafel Boluda Museum we can find, along with his works, a selection of works by other artists and a didactic exhibition dedicated to the evolution of his art and work.
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OLD TOBACCO DRYER
Very close to Llanera de Ranes we find Rotglà i Corberà, where we can visit the current town hall, which was a tobacco drying room made up of five warehouses. Inside we can still find elements of its productive past related to one of the main traditional crops of the area.
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NOVETLÈ ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Returning to the A-7 and then taking the CV-645 we can reach Novetlè, where the Novetlè Ethnological Museum has been set up in the Civic and Social Center. The exhibits come from donations and loans from people of the town. The exhibition includes kitchen items, household items, clothing, coins, measuring utensils, tools, and other productive items, etc. All the pieces have been restored and have a file and a photography archive to facilitate their understanding.
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COLLEGIATE OF LA SEU AND THE HERMITAGE OF SANT FELIU
The collegiate of La Seu and the Hermitage of Sant Feliu have important pieces related to sacred art and religious life. La Seu is a monumental building of medieval origin, while the Sant Feliu hermitage is a Gothic building built above of a previous one with a Late-Roman origin and linked to the first Christian communities in our lands.
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BORGIA’S SPACE
The Borgia’s Space is the most recent of these exhibitions and is in the magnificent Renaissance hospital. There we can enjoy audiovisual presentations about this Valencian lineage with strong roots in the city that has among its rank’s popes, saints, and other renowned figures.
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FALLER MUSEUM
The Faller Museum of Xàtiva is located near the palaces and monuments of Moncada Street. There, in addition to the ninots pardoned in recent years, we can find the trace that the Fallas monuments have left in the city during more than 150 years ago in the Plaça de la Trinitat the first falla was planted outside the city of Valencia. The collection includes other pieces of interest such as models, bands, dolls, etc.
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CORPUS MUSEUM
It is located in the cultural complex of the old convent of Sant Doménec (13th century). In this museum we can enjoy the clothes and the different elements that are part of the traditional Xàtiva procession, originally from the 14th century and recovered during the 20th century
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
The Museum of Fine Arts of Xàtiva occupies the neoclassical Casa de la Ensenyança (1758), in its origins the museum received pieces transferred from the Almodí museum, and later other acquisitions were added. The collection ranges from the late medieval period, with Gothic pieces, to current art. In its rooms you can enjoy one of the emblematic works of the city, the portrait of Felipe V by Josep Amorós, who in 1940 was hung upside down in punishment for the burning of the city, ordered by said monarch.
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ALMODÍ MUSEUM
The Almodí Museum is located in a Renaissance building (1548) dedicated to the wheat trade. In its exhibition we can find remains and objects from the Paleolithic era (highlighting the collection of pieces from the Cova Negra) One of its emblematic pieces is an Andalusian font from the 11th century that shows various figures from a rare perspective for the Muslim art of the time. Other point of interest of the exhibition is one of the few Visigoth altars that are preserved in the peninsula (6th century) that reused a previous Roman piece, an Iberian head from the 4th century BC. or the Roman inscriptions.
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CASA DEL POU MUSEUM
Arriving at La Llosa de Ranes from Xàtiva by the N-340, we can visit the interesting Historical, Artistic and Ethnological Museum of the Casa del Pou. This museum, redesigned in collaboration with the Valencian Museum of Oenology, shows recent history and the evolution of traditional culture from the perspective of the local population. The people of the Llosa de Ranes have shared testimonies, photographs and other objects that have been incorporated into the exhibition so that the museum also constitutes a tool for presenting the town.
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PILOTA MUSEUM
The Museu de la Pilota shows us everything that revolves around our most traditional sport and, obviously, it is located in Genovés, a town that has seen a good handful of champions and legendary pelotaris grow up. The museum opened its doors and has been improving with the support of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology. The Museum goes beyond the exhibition tasks, functioning as a center for research, conservation, and dissemination of the sport of piloting. The museum has a galotxeta to practice this modality and has direct access to the municipal
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