Discover Peñiscola
Irta's saw
A natural setting
Peñíscola's south littoral is scarped and rocky. It is splashed with tiny beaches and high cliffs that form peaceful coves. On this coast Irta's Saw is situated. Natural place from the year 2002, is a mountainous alignment with 573 m. Of maximum height and 15 km from coastal front. The historical absence of human accessions of importance, they allow the presence of the natural and ethnological only values that have given in defining it as the last virgin saw of the Valencian Community. In the small coves that there draws The Saw Irta they are suitable for, the practice of the skin-diving or the fishing with fishline, they us present a dimension different from relation with the sea and the nature.
Irta's Saw relies on a system of signposting that it directs us for some of the ways of easier access; the points of beginning of itineraries think along the road that the Coast crosses South. The ways put up signs with indicators of wood are tracks of land adapted to travel with diverse means. There exists the possibility of realizing tours astride, as well as crossed afoot by the paths of the high part of the saw, endowed with a specific system of signposting. In Irta's Saw we can visit the hermitage of San Antonio that dates back to the 16th century. The set is formed by the own hermitage, the house of the hermit and the hostelry that they delimit a court from whose railing spies the excellent panoramic one.
