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What to see and do in Alfauir

What to see and do in Alfauir (La Safor, Valencia): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments

How far each place is from the centre of Alfauir

Church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario 50 m
Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba 1.5 km

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What to see and do in Alfauir

Alfauir
Village
Alfauir is a municipality in the comarca of La Safor, in the province of Valencia, with 515 inhabitants (INE 2025), situated between the Sierra de Ador and the Sierra Falconera and crossed by the Vernisa river. It was a Muslim alquería that, after the conquest of Jaume I, had 25 houses dependent on the barony of Palma; in the 15th century it came under the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Cotalba, Gothic-Renaissance in style, founded in the 14th century, in 1388, by Alfonso of Aragon the Elder and linked to the Borja family, whose territory still occupies almost half of the municipal area today, two kilometres from the town centre. Its parish church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario was built between the 18th and 19th centuries.
Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba
Monument
An old Hieronymite monastery located on the hill of Cotalba, in a privileged natural setting about eight kilometres from Gandia, founded in the 14th century, in 1388, by Duke Alfons el Vell and historically linked to the Borja family. It housed the first Hieronymite community of the old Crown of Aragon, transferred from Xàbia due to the danger from pirates; the works were entrusted to Pere March, father of the poet Ausiàs March, whose family built a chapel there and buried several of its members, among them the poet's two wives. In the 16th century it came under the protection of the Borja family, and Duchess María Enríquez de Luna funded its expansion. Inhabited by around thirty monks until 1835, it has belonged since then to the Trénor family, and was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1994.
Church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Monument
Parish church of Alfauir built between the 18th and 19th centuries, with a simple, sober façade. It stands on calle Mayor, in the village, and is declared a Bien de Relevancia Local (heritage protection designation of local significance).