Qualla: La Vall d'Uixó https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/f/la-vall-d-uixo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: La Vall d'Uixó https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo La Vall d'Uixó: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 4.0. You buy a ticket, step into a flat-bottomed boat, and float straight into the side of a mountain. Beneath La Vall d'Uixó runs the largest navigable underground river in Europe - the Coves de Sant Josep, a flooded limestone gallery where a boatman guides you through chambers hung with stalactites, past walls that people painted thousands of years ago. Above ground, this town in the province of Castellón looks unremarkable: orange groves, footwear workshops, two old church towers. Its most extraordinary feature is the water it sits on top of.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/f/la-vall-d-uixo-wp/ezpf-la-vall-duix-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Vall d'Uixó: The River Inside the Mountain https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Coves de Sant Josep are the reason people come. The subterranean river carves through the rock for a considerable distance, and much of it is deep enough to travel by boat, poled and hauled along by guides who know every low ceiling by heart. Passengers duck beneath overhangs...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/f/la-vall-d-uixo-wp/ezpf-la-vall-duix-the-river-inside-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full La Vall d'Uixó: Two Villages That Became One https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo/ Photo credit Coentor, CC BY-SA 3.0. La Vall d'Uixó is really two old towns that grew into each other. One is El poble de Baix, the lower village, gathered around the Assumpció church; the other is El poble de Dalt, the upper village, centred on the Àngel church. Each kept its own historic street plan as they merged...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/f/la-vall-d-uixo-wp/ezpf-la-vall-duix-two-villages-that-became-one.mp3 0:06 3 full La Vall d'Uixó: Layers Underfoot https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo/ Photo credit B25es, CC BY-SA 3.0. Dig anywhere here and history surfaces. On the hills sit the remains of the Iberian city of Punta Orley, its ancient name lost, its stone walls and public buildings raised in overlapping eras. In the Unió neighbourhood, archaeologists opened a Hispano-Visigothic necropolis and fo...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/f/la-vall-d-uixo-wp/ezpf-la-vall-duix-layers-underfoot.mp3 0:06 4 full La Vall d'Uixó: Shoes, Oranges, and a Tennis Champion https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo/ Photo credit B25es, CC BY-SA 3.0. The modern town was built in the middle of the last century, when La Vall d'Uixó shifted from dry farming to irrigated citrus and grew a genuine industry around footwear and leather. It works for a living, and it celebrates hard too: since 1982, Les Penyes en Festes has filled th...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/f/la-vall-d-uixo-wp/ezpf-la-vall-duix-shoes-oranges-and-a-tennis-champion.mp3 0:06 5 full La Vall d'Uixó: A Table Worth Sitting At https://qualla.com/la-vall-d-uixo/ Photo credit B25es, CC BY-SA 3.0. Like everywhere in the Valencian Community, the kitchen here runs on rice. Paella appears on tables every Sunday, but La Vall guards a few dishes of its own. There is arròs al forn, a hearty oven-baked rice of ribs, sausage, and chickpeas; empedrao, an old hunters' stew thick wit...

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