Excursions are something more than taking a walk, since the exercise goes, often bound to other activities. To walk by the mountain is, in addition, to know in depth the nature, to respect it and to learn to live with it. Not in vain, some educative currents have based his teaching on the contact with the nature, geographic physics, forest ecology, ecosystems, material and techniques of camping, slight knowledge of direction and cartography. To discover the wealth natural of our earth this within reach of any visitor, who will be able to consult and to acquire the cartography of detail in specialized points and to follow the itineraries signalized in the Footpaths of great and small routes. The equipment necessary to cross our mountains is very simple, do not forget to wear good suitable footwear, a canteen which be able to gather water from the streams and springs that we find on our way, a snack to gather energy when having a break, from the adventurous spirit, since the valley of Ayora provides you unique landscapes, precipices, rocks, tops fertile valleys, footpaths, forests and hermitages sprinkle this area, inviting you to know it in small excursions, long routes or simple strolls.

When we were presented with the possibility of visiting the cave paintings from “The Old Woman’s cave” by Alpera Town hall with the purpose of popularizing part of its inheritance, we couldn’t do anything else that welcome it with satisfaction and enthusiasm because it allowed us to continue a task in which we were set on doing since some years ago and that is making accessible to the public such an important and suggestive aspect from our history, but so forgotten, as prehistoric rock art. But besides, we were offered the opportunity of diffusing it through one of the most outstanding painted shelters in all the Mediterranean Peninsular Coastal as “The Old Woman’s Cave” is. Since the first studies, adjoining to its discovery in 1910, several publications have gathered both aspects of the contents of this deposit but the truth is that, after 80 years, an exhaustive and detailed study of this panel is still absent, not only from the historic-archaeological point of view but also from the tourist one. Because there is no doubt that we are before an authentic and invaluable work of art, generally singular, with special conditions of physical and climatic protection which fits perfectly into our urban culture. We don’t realize we are before millenary works of art made in the same place where they were conceived, wrapped up by a natural setting similar to the one existing at the moment of its execution and in the care of its own nature. All these circumstances make us get closer to the prehistoric artist’s world in which work and nature make an inseparable whole.
“The Old Woman’s Cave” owns these two last picture arts which are exceptionally representative of the East art of the peninsular geography, dated between the IV and II millennium. More information phoning Alpera Town hall: 0034 96733 0001

Guided routes to Church’s and Hermitages. To be able to cross the old historical and cultural ages of Ayora is possible visiting its patrimony of the Church of Our Mrs... of Asuncion, recently recovered and not only to make a route by the hermitages that they surround the population but that was constructed within the own urban downtown giving each one its own image that gives the true historical and cultural view of Villa de Ayora. Within the population we have the hermitages San Blas, Santa Bright, Santa Barbara, Saint Jose and in the environs to the town, the Angel, the Virgin Of the rosary, Saint Anton. Information on the telephone of the City council of Ayora: 96 219 10 25. (Of Monday through Friday for the mornings). Information the office of tourism Ayora Tell. 0034 961890658.