Valencia's importance in the old Silk Road has helped the city to become a participant in the UNWTO Silk Road Programme, an initiative that joins territories and research projects from Japan to Portugal. Experts take the opportunity to remember and promote Valencian landscape and historical and artistic heritage.
The landscape of Alzira, Carcaixent, La Pobla Larga and other neighboring towns of La Ribera is almost exclusively planted with orange groves now. But in many of them we can still find remaining mulberry trees from the crops that were before, whose leaves served as
