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Palm tree orchards are the most characteristic feature of the urban landscape of Elx.
They surround the city like a huge green belt, 2 km long and 1 km wide.
The sheer quantity of palm trees here, numbering around 200.000, make the city look more like a forest when seen from the distance.
Yet the Palm
Groves is not a natural forest, but rather a cultural area which is as rational in its design as the gardens of the Renaissance, originally created for agricultural production, and owing much to the complex system of irrigation used to water the whole area.
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The palm groves route has a total
length of 2.580 meters. You should
use comfortable footwear, protect
your head from the sun and carry
some water for the journey. There
are signs along the way providing
directions.
Upright signs: located every few
meters and at crossroads there are
posts with green colored flags
indicating the direction to follow
and the number of meters left from
the total length of the route.
Ground signs: the route is also
marked out with round signs on the
ground indicating the right
direction to follow.
The route starts off and ends at one
of the historic orchards called
"Sant Plàcid".
(Purta de la Morira 49) |
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