Village
Bicorp is a Spanish-speaking municipality of the Canal de Navarrés, in the province of Valencia, with 546 inhabitants (INE 2025), set on a hill between the río Escalona and the Caroche massif, almost entirely surrounded by the bend of the Barranco Moreno. To the north of the territory extends the National Hunting Reserve, a refuge for the Iberian ibex and the mouflon. It is famous for the rock art of the Cueva de la Araña, with a scene unique in the world of honey gathering, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Founded by the Arabs, who called it Buquerben, it was a Muslim hamlet divided into two baronies; after the Christian conquest the Moriscos remained there for four more centuries, until their expulsion in 1609.
Nature
A Levantine rock art site dated between 9000 and 1400 BC, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, with the famous honey-gathering scene, one of the oldest depictions of beekeeping in the world.
Monument
A museum project in Bicorp focused on the archaeological, ethnological and palaeontological heritage of the Canal de Navarrés comarca. Launched in 2005 by the town council and the Museum Network of the Valencia Provincial Council, with funds from the European Leader+ programme, it opened its Interpretation Centre in 2009 in a three-storey building on calle San Roque. Its contents are organised into three sections: the rock art of the Mediterranean Arc, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with examples such as the Cueva de la Araña; the ethnological heritage of traditional Bicorp society, covering mountain life, farming and cave houses; and the palaeontological site of ichnites of the Tambuc, evidence of dinosaurs in the Valencian Community.
Nature
A group of shelters with Levantine rock art scattered across the mountain landscape of the comarca of La Canal de Navarrés, included in the 1998 World Heritage listing.
Curiosity
The honey-gathering scene in the Cueva de la Araña is one of the oldest and most internationally recognised depictions of prehistoric beekeeping.
Activity
Bicorp celebrates the Santa Cruz and San Juan Evangelista on the first weekend of May, with the handing out of blessed rolls, and the Virgen de la Asunción, San Roque and Santa Cecilia from 13 to 20 August, with a Moors and Christians parade on the 18th.
Nature
By the river Escalona, in the municipality of Bicorp, lie the caves of la Araña, one of the best-known groups of Levantine rock art in La Canal de Navarrés, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. They comprise three rock shelters with paintings dated between 9000 and 1400 BC, from the Epipalaeolithic period, among which stands out the world-famous scene of a human figure gathering honey from a wild honeycomb, together with another depicting a goat hunt. The caves were discovered in the early 20th century by Jaime Garí i Poch, a local teacher.
Monument
18th-century parish church of Bicorp, one of the main religious buildings in the comarca of La Canal de Navarrés.
Monument
17th-century hermitage in Bicorp, in the comarca of La Canal de Navarrés.
Monument
Group of rock shelters with Levantine rock art in the municipal district of Bicorp, with hunting scenes, animal figures and a striking depiction of dancers, included in the UNESCO listing of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Historical milestone
In 1392 Luis de Castellar Vilanova received the title of first baron of Bicorp, and his coat of arms is still preserved on the castle façade. The municipal district, of Andalusi origin, brought together the two baronies of Bicorp and Benedriz, the latter now depopulated.
Food and drink
The cooking of Bicorp preserves two shepherds' dishes: gachamiga, a paste of flour, water, oil and garlic worked in the pan until it comes away, and gazpachos, a meat stew served on unleavened flatbread. They are still prepared at meals in the countryside.