University of Valencia

The University of Valencia and its natural environments: El Carrascal of La Font Roja and La Sierra de Mariola. Exhibition in the Hall of the Faculty of Geography and History.

El Carrascal of La Font Roja, located at the north of the province of Alicante, is an excellent representation of the mixed Mediterranean forest, which occupies 2.298 hectares declared Natural Park since 2002, due to its uniqueness and ecological and heritage values that contribute to make of this territory one of the most rooted in the Valencian popular culture.

The exhibition, developed by the University of Valencia through the work of the technical team of the Office of the Vice-Principal, is a multidisciplinary choral work, which includes the aspects that define La Font Roja and La Serra de Mariola, as well as analyses its botanical, wildlife, landscape, agronomic, historical and cultural, socioeconomic values. And for the preparation of the 27 panels have collaborated teachers and researchers of many departments of the University, as well as experts of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology and the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Alcoi or technicians of the Natural Parks of the Generalitat Valenciana. All of them specialists that have worked together with the objective of uniting disparate topics in a very comprehensive exhibition that does not neglect any detail of this emblematic space.

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Office of the Vice-Principal for Participation and Territorial Projection. Collaborates: Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Valencia..

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