Walk Through Charming Village of Aigües .:. Spain's Secret Gems

The village where I had a walk doesn't even have a Wikipedia page in English, so I will share with you the Spanish version of Aigües Wikipedia... As you have noticed, it has two names, one is Valenciano (Aigües), and the other is Castellano (Aguas de Busot)...

Why is so unknown, you could ask? Well, 30 years ago, this place had less than 400 citizens and today it has around 1000... So, it's growing! Many Spanish villages had (and some still have) the problem with migrations to other places, bigger towns, and cities... Today, the situation is a bit better, but if you ask me, I like these small villages as they usually have that "connection" with the past, and some special charm!

In these kinds of places, people tend to stick together and I noticed that spending only an hour walking around the city... Okay, I needed a bit less than an hour to walk around the whole village, but I had to turn back, too... 😃

How the heck I got there in the first place? Thanks for asking, it was almost a coincidence as my wife was playing piano at a wedding so I used that opportunity to go and check out one more place on my agenda...

We were searching for the small hotel where that sign points out... Of course, this was the second attempt to find it (after looking at Google Maps at home!), as the GPS sent us on a one-way street... lol... Anyways, we somehow found the place, I dropped my wife there and began my walk...

This was the one-way road where GPS wanted us to go...

The hotel where the wedding ceremony was held was somewhere behind those trees at the end of the narrow road...

This photo is from the "You have just one job!" edition... 😂, there was another one just a few steps further, positioned in the same way, but I forgot to take a picture... 😃

Okay, let's see how many Spanish speakers are following this post... This sign in the original didn't say this, but rather Solo vehiculos autorizados, which means "Authorized Vehicles Only"... But, someone deleted specific letters to get this... 😂

And believe it or not, this small village has its theater...

Right on the other side of the theater, there was this small and charming park... As the village is inland, at a bit higher altitude, what you see is real grass... I know that it sounds weird to say it, but in the place where I live, most of the green surfaces are "fake (plastic) grass" as we don't have enough rain and the sun burns everything... 😃

Speaking of lack of water... I suppose that this was a water fountain, but it is dry at the moment...

You know that I like graffiti and I found this one that looks great... In a short translation, it says that "Aigües will cure you by its air, water, and pine trees!"

I had bad luck with visiting the main street in the village as it was closed for renovation... I continued on the main road, but I came back to this one, from the backside!

If you checked my caturday post, you probably saw this photo, but you didn't see the one under... Nice combination of Lost Island, E.T., and Peter Pan... And maybe something else?

Counting the first photo in this post, this was the second map that shows walking trails around the village... I have stored this map for later use as it would be nice to revisit this place and take them! This time, I had less than an hour time, and these routes were around 2-3 hours, so maybe next time...

Looking at these photos, the whole village was so peaceful and I think that I didn't see anyone in the streets! Maybe a few people in the local bar, but nobody on the street... except this cute cat that you already know from mentioned caturday post... 😃

No village in Spain doesn't have a church... Bigger or smaller, but there has to be one, and Aigües isn't an exception...

The church is called Església de Sant Francesc d'Assís and if I got it right, it was built in 1755... The one thing that got my attention is that the two towers are different, one has bells and the other one has a clock with a metal construction for another bell... That second tower is reconstructed after the Civil War...

As I said, I got back to the main street doesn't look pretty at the moment, but I bet it will when the works end...

...you can find a newly built Town Hall...

... and another interesting graffiti which was probably better looking in the past as the house is unfortunately abandoned and a bit in ruins...

The biggest issue in small villages is that usually there are no kids in them... Seeing this wooden board made me happy as it is work from united small hands... 😃

One of the "old-style" houses in the village... Isn't it cute?

And, on the other side, a newly built house complex, but still, done in the "old-style"... Okay, the colors aren't in the "old-style", but they look amazing like that!

They have a small health center which is also nice to see in such a small village... One of the main issues why people are migrating from small towns/villages to bigger cities is to have better health care... Great move, Aigües, to have one health center in the village!

It looks like this walk wasn't that short and boring as I got 40 amazing photos taken! Yeah, "only" 40 as I had to take out some of them as I didn't want to overwhelm you with too many images... So, next time when you step into a small village, give it a chance to "amaze you", take out your camera, and you will find plenty of interesting things to photoshoot!

I hope that you enjoyed the walk! See you next time!

Thank you for your valuable time,

~ph~