Come and visit the museum the MUSEU ISURUS, Museu Paleontològic i de les Ciencies – Alcoi, where you will find...

The collection of the Mesozoic era includes pieces from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with importance being given to the first Prognathodon tooth discovered in the Spanish Levante, Castalla (Alicante), by Mr. Manuel García Ávila, and also to the Ammonite pieces of the Blas Giner Site, La Querola and Canteres de Comellars, as well as fossils of the Sierra de Mariola Natural Park.

Marine reptiles, replicas of dinosaurs, remains of mastodons… A fascinating universe that leads us to the Paleozoic Period, with workshops and audiovisuals. All this and much more awaits the visitor in the MUPE.

The more than 1,200 fossil and models displayed within its halls provide a complete tour of the exciting history of life on our planet. It is made up of two floors.

Visit the Municipal Archaeological-Paleontological Museum 

The museum has two large areas for its exhibition space:

This Greenway begins near the leisure park, the Habanera Museum and the Salt Industry Interpretation Centre. We soon see the huge mountains of salt as we travel through the Mata and Torrevieja Lagoons. We skirt the Torrevieja lagoon, considered the largest saltwater lagoon in Europe, with a 25-km perimeter, measuring 7 km in length. This Natural Park is one of the most important in the Region of Valencia, and is the largest lagoon after the Albufera of Valencia.

Built during Primo de Ribera's dictatorship on complex orography, this railway posed a challenge to engineers at the time. Infrastructure work was completed in 1932, but the Civil War put a halt to it and the tracks were never laid. Reports from the 1960s dismissed lengthening it, and in 1984, the old platform was used for other purposes. 

A very short route in the urban perimeter area of the city of Ibi, with alternating almond and olive groves. The old abandoned track runs through the wide agricultural valley separating the Menejador mountains (to the north), forming part of the Carrascar de la Font Roja Natural Park, and the Cuartel mountains to the south.

Also known as the Virtudes Greenway, the name Xixarra (Cicada) comes from the term used to refer to Alicante's trains, because of their exterior aspect and the monotonous sound of the locomotives compared with the sound of the cicadas, so abundant along the entire route.

This is built over the old Alcoi-Alicante railway, used to export products manufactured in Alcoi. As soon as we leave the city, the route brings us to the Carrascar de la Font Roja Natural Park. We can enjoy the highly diverse landscape in the area, riding amongst pine trees, kermes oak, alder, ash and Valencian oak. 

This Greenway was initially inaugurated as a route within the Natural Pathway network. Follow the route of the old Carcaixent-Dénia railway that transported oranges to the ports of Gandía and Dénia for exportation.