Planning your trip
Flying is the quickest and cheapest way to get to Valencia. You can pay a little extra with EasyJet (from Gatwick) to offset your carbon emissions. Ryanair flies from Stansted. Depending on the day of the week and when you book you can pay as little as £35 return.
Siue esta carretera durant Pasa un indicador de velocidad máxima a 60 km/h y muy pronto otro de 40 km/h. La carretera es ancha. En el indicador 3 km gira a la izquierda. Entra en un camino del campo y sigue este camino sin girar, para 3 kms, pasando una mina a la derecha con un indicador de 20 km/h, un coral a la derecha, y cuando baja hay una carretera recto y un indicador de 20 km/h. Gira aqui a la derecha y sigue el camino pasando unas casas, una aldea a la derecha. Ve por un valle pecuino. Subiendo verás un indicador pecueno, blanco y rojo, sobre un arbol: Amitavati. Gira a la derecha, y Amitavati esta alli, 50 metros delante, una casa de 2 plantas, color crema y rojo. Bienvenido!!
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See Multimap to find the way by road to Villar-del-Arzobispo, the nearest town to Amitavati.
Directions from Villar del Arzobispo to Amitavati (7km).
From the roundabout with a wine press in the middle just before Villar -del-Arzobispo take the second exit (straight across) towards Higueruelas. Pass an industrial estate on your right and take a right turn at the signpost to Andilla. This is the CV341.You come to a 60km/hr speed limit and shortly after, a 40km/hr speed limit. The road widens then and you turn left at km. 3 onto a dirt track. There will be a sign to Amitavati on a post at this junction if a retreat is due to start. Follow the dirt track until you reach the second 20km/hr sign. Turn right at the sign and continue past a group of houses. Cross a small valley. As you come up the other side of this dip, just past our neighbour's white house, you will see the red flag of Amitavati flying between 2 pine trees, and you take the next turning to the right which leads you to the 2-story house of Casa Rosa, Amitavati: yellow with a red-brown colour around the bottom of the house, and various ruins on the other side of the track. Welcome!
You can arrange for transfers between Amitavati and the airport, Lliria (nearest big town) or Villar del Arzobispo (the local village).
Costs of transfers:
Airport (50mins): 1 person - 24 euros each way, 2 people - 28 euros, 3 people - 30 euros .
Lliria (35mins): 1 person - 15 euros, 2 people - 19 euros, 3 people - 22 euros
Villar del Arzobispo (10mins) - 4 euros. (Less for more than one person)
Alternatively take the metro to Valencia (Turia stop) then the bus to Villar del Arzobispo (4.35 euros) and pick up your transfer there. From anywhere in Valencia take an 80 or a 2 bus to the bus station (estacion del autobus).
At the airport there is a metro station next to the arrivals hall. The trains are fairly frequent. It takes about 1h 15m to get to Lliria and pick up your transfer to Amitavati. The metro fare is 2.40 euros. First take the no. 3 (red) line in the direction of Rafelbunyol. Change at Angel Guimera onto the no. 1 (yellow) line to Lliria (the last stop). There are 10 stops to Angel Guimera and it takes about 20 mins, then 21 stops to Lliria, another 45 mins. Wait in the car park at the side of the station for your transfer.
Light clothes in the summer and both light and warm clothes in the winter when the days can be warm and the nights very cold. So bring thick socks, gloves and woolly hat; even a hot water bottle. Bring a towel and slippers for use in the house and strong boots for walking. Sun protection cream should be used all year. If on a working retreat bring old clothes too.
Bring a torch for hill walking at night. The electrical sockets are 2-round pin with a 230v supply. Although it is possible to recharge electrical equipment in the main house the advice is not to bring laptops and after mobile phones are used for essential communication on arrival they should be switched off on arrival.
Andilla - picturesque hill village with springs and waterfall
Chulilla - beautiful village in red-rock hills with striking river gorge, and spa with hot springs. Reservoir nearby for swimming.
Villar del Arzobispo - the nearest historic hill town with its 500 year old summer residence of the Archbishop of Valencia. There is a good street market on Fridays and an excellent supermarket (Consum).
Casinos - 10km away. In late summer the turron factories have an open day where you can try all the different varieties of turron.
Valencia - If you get a chance, set aside a day at least to explore Valencia. You can pick up an excellent map from the tourist office in the airport arrivals hall or on platform 1 of the main railway station.
