Alpuente

Around 1,000 metres up on Valencia's border with Teruel, this was the capital of its own Muslim taifa kingdom in the 11th century. Its castle once presided over the walled town, in a frontier land crossed by the old royal road to Aragon and Castile. Today the municipality is a rugged spread of ravines, mountains and scattered hamlets, and in 2018 it was named a Valencian Capital of Culture.

Highlights

• The castle that once watched over the walled town
• The legacy of the 11th-century Taifa of Alpuente
• Old irrigation and water works tied to local farming
• Eroded mountains such as La Muela, rising to 1,511 metres
• The Iberian site of Los Castillejos, near the hamlet of La Cuevarruz

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.