The best walks and hikes around Sant Joanet

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The temperature was just below 30 degrees and that was fine for this walk, which was most of the time in the sun. The first part of the walk was more challenging than the second part. In this case that was good because of the temperature. There were no other people taking this walk, so it was very quiet. There were some nice views to other places like Xativa.

The Quatre Camins quarry, also known as the Llosar dels Francs, is an archaeological site 500m away. of the Roman villa, known as Villa Cornelius, located in Partida dels Franks. These are quarries that, according to some scholars (such as the archaeologist Miquel Ramon Martí), could be considered the most important of the Roman period in the Iberian Peninsula. The commercialization of the marble extracted from these quarries was the main source of wealth for the Iunii family, of the Galeria Tribe, owners of the plantation and the Cornelius town. The transport of the stone was done through the carriladas, that is to say, grooves in the rocks that channeled the wheels of the carts, which can still be seen on the road that leads from Énova to Barxeta. The planter has preserved marks that show that the marble was extracted forming rectangular blocks. These large blocks were transported in oxcarts to the town, where the work of stonemasons or stonemasons continued, who would fragment them and shape them into specific pieces, according to the order that needed to be served. This marble was used to make tombstones, monuments of different sizes and even slabs to pave the Roman theater in Zaragoza or the plinths of the Romanesque door of the Cathedral of Valencia.

It is advisable to take advantage of rail transport to travel to the starting point of the planned routes on foot or by bike. From L'Énova you can take interesting routes on foot through its territory and also by bike through the regions of Ribera and Costera.

Underground passage to cross the train tracks on foot or by bike.

Villa Cornelius is a Roman villa, located in the municipality of l'Énova, in the region of Ribera Alta, in an area known as "Els Alters". The discovery of the site was due to chance, since the remains of the villa were found when, in September 2003, work began prior to the construction of the AVE Madrid- Valencia. It is a rural villa, between 2,600 and 3,000 square meters, located very close to the Via Augusta (on a plain between the river Sucro (Xúquer) and its tributary the river Magre) and the old Saetabis (Xàtiva), in the Tarraconensis province, belonging to the patrician Publius Cornelius Iuniani (whose name had to give rise to the toponym of the later population, Iunianus). The villa was built at the end of the 1st century AD (specifically between the years 65 and 75) and ended its use in the second quarter of the 5th century AD. Throughout this period, in which the villa was dedicated to the exploitation and processing of flax, several reforms were carried out both in the house and in the production area. It had to be abandoned enough that part of the roof of the residential buildings fell and remained on the floors (which contained mosaics), sealing them and allowing their conservation to this day. At present, the villa is covered again, after having extracted valuable mosaics.

Also known as Llosar dels Francs, in this Roman marble quarry you can distinguish the rectangular blocks that were later loaded onto bullock carts to transport them.

El Pi d'Ambrosio is a natural site of great environmental value, much appreciated by all the residents of L'Énova. Place, where people usually go to spend the day and get in touch with nature. Currently, this area is minimally conditioned with approved paellers, as well as several drinking water sources.