Village
Dos Aguas is one of the smallest municipalities in the comarca of La Hoya de Buñol, in the province of Valencia, situated in the basin of the Júcar river, between the sierra del Ave to the north and the sierra del Caballón to the southeast, with abundant ravines and pine forests. Its territory has been inhabited since the mid-6th millennium BC, as shown by the deepest levels of the cueva de la Cocina; its ancient occupants may have been the authors of the Levantine rock art preserved in the nearby shelters of Cinto de las Letras and Cinto Ventana. The municipality, Spanish-speaking and of probable Muslim origin, has 340 inhabitants.
Activity
During Holy Week, Dos Aguas processes through its streets with the Living Way of the Cross, a popular reenactment of the Passion that is one of the municipality's most deeply rooted religious traditions.
Nature
Cave located on the right bank of the barranco de Cinto Ventanas, at 400 meters of altitude, in the municipality of Dos Aguas, in La Hoya de Buñol. It contains a prehistoric site with Mesolithic and Neolithic paintings, inhabited from the seventh millennium BC until the Eneolithic. In the 1940s Luis Pericot located a group of rock paintings near the entrance; later studies by Javier Fortea and, in the late 1980s, by Anna Alonso and Alexandre Grimal, identified them as Levantine Art, between 10,000 and 6,500 years old, the work of hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipaleolithic. This frieze, like the rest of those in the Comunidad Valenciana, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998.
Nature
A cave in Dos Aguas, one of the mountain beauty spots of the comarca of La Hoya de Buñol.
Monument
The castle of Madrona stands on the banks of the Júcar river, in a valley about five kilometres from the town centre of Dos Aguas, next to the present-day El Naranjero reservoir. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2002, today it only retains remains of walls and tower bases; according to the chronicler Rafael Martí de Viciana, a church dedicated to Our Lady once stood within it. Its existence is documented from Muslim times, although its construction cannot be dated precisely; the Records of the Royal Chancery mention it frequently and record repair works in 1292 and 1314. Its history runs parallel to that of the castle of Dos Aguas: in 1256 James I granted it to Ato de Foces, and it later passed through several owners until in 1496 Giner Rabasa de Perellós bought both castles, whose barony became a marquisate in 1699.
Monument
Remains of the castle in the centre of the village, listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural, reached by a climb up to the manorial tower of the Vilaragut family.
Monument
The rock shelters of Cinto de las Letras and Cinto Ventana, in Dos Aguas, lie next to the Cueva de la Cocina, and it is possible that its same occupants were the authors of these cave paintings. The representations belong to Levantine art, dated between 10,000 and 6,500 years ago, one of the most singular sets of rock art in the municipality.
Nature
A site of ichnites, or fossil footprints, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian), declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2006, where a main trackway of about 27 footprints laid out from north to south has been mapped, crossed by other shorter and less well-defined trackways, up to a total of about 50 ichnites. The marks, of subcircular or oval shape as a result of having formed on a very fluid sediment, are tentatively attributed to a bipedal dinosaur, although the disparity in sizes could also correspond to the hand and foot prints of a quadruped. They are preserved on laminated and heavily fissured limestone rocks, whose partial detachment has erased some imprints while others even retain the original ring-shaped structures.
Monument
Complex made up of the Calvary, the hermitage of the Divina Pastora and the municipal pantheon, set within the urban fabric of the village centre next to the parish church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
Curiosity
Popular tradition of Dos Aguas that credits a legendary giant named Garbó with the creation of the landforms around the municipality.
Activity
The Vía Crucis Viviente of Dos Aguas re-enacts during Holy Week the most intense moments of the Passion, with the participation of a large part of the village's residents, who walk through the streets portraying the different characters. It is one of the most deeply rooted religious traditions in the municipality.