Requena Fortress – Castle and walls of Requena loop from Requena

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Requena Fortress – Castle and walls of Requena loop from Requena

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Requena Fortress – Castle and walls of Requena loop from Requena

04:00

44.5km

720m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: November 6, 2026

Waypoints

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Train Station

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423 m

Bullring

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Monumental bullring with neomudejar facade, a magnificent example of the historicist style of the late 19th century.

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1.29 km

The castle is located on the highest hill of the city, in a strategic point. Of Muslim origin, it was built during the 15th century and only the Torre del Homenaje remains standing of the original building.

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1.56 km

Castle Slope

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Main coast and gateway to Barri de la Vil·la, declared a national historical-artistic complex in 1966.

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1.67 km

Castle and walls of Requena

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The Castle is located on the promontory that dominates the city, and is built on a large rock. Currently, only its Torre de l'Homenatge survives, which is part of the original Muslim fortress, which was built in ashlar stone, and built with mortar until it was replaced by the current one in 1423. The castle is 'it was in the middle of two large towers, with battlements and embankments. It had a drawbridge over an already blinded moat.
It served a variety of uses, from a knight's residence to a prison. The tower is currently restored and its interior is diaphanous, and digital explanations can be seen.
Requena was considered a "frontier square" between the Muslim kingdom of Valencia and the kingdom of Castile, from almost the end of the twelfth century. It is for this reason that its defenses were reinforced in the aforementioned century.

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2.11 km

Town Hall and fountain

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The location of the city of Requena in an area provided with numerous springs and fountains has had great strategic importance in the permanent settlement and urban development of the city. Since ancient times, Requena has been surrounded by vegetable gardens and a system of ditches that moved mills and ran through the interior of the urban center, being common since the events of the s. XVI until those of the XX in which the necessary cleaning of the drains by the neighbors is insisted upon. These urban drains were the cause of countless problems and, at times, disease-spreading agents.
Until 1953, the urban fountains and fountains were used by the neighborhood for their usual uses of water supply and not with an aesthetic sense. Many houses up to that time were also supplied from the wells of the houses themselves which could be of fresh or salt water.

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2.19 km

Glorieta Park

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La Glorieta was born to be a humble convent garden, but the bourgeois liberal revolution turned it into an elegant park for concerts, fairs, parties, games... It has been a meeting place and recreation place for the residents of Requena for more than a century and a half Now, when the city has expanded towards the west, the Glorieta, officially called "Dr. Gómez Ferrer Children's Park", rests more quietly.

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2.62 km