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Coordinates
  • Latitude: 39.470239
  • Longitude: -0.376805

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Introduction

Plaza Ayuntamiento (Valencia)

Plaza Ayuntamiento (Valencia)

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Valencia is a popular sea-side city on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. While the beach is an obvious drawcard for the city, Valencia's charm is its emblematic combination of the old and new: Traditional Baroque, Gothic and Neo-Classical architecture is contrasted with the ultra-modern City of Arts and Sciences, a massive educational complex designed to symbolise the Space Age.
The city itself has about 800,000 inhabitants, but the total urban area is almost twice that size and the metropolitan area almost three times as big, making it one of the bigger ones in Spain.
For more information, also check the official Valencia Tourism website.

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Neighbourhoods

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Sights and Activities

Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències

Valencia 2008 - City of Arts and Sciences

Valencia 2008 - City of Arts and Sciences

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The Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències was designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava and is a series of five buildings in a contemporary style in the dried river bed of the now diverted River Turia. This place is worth walking around by day or night because of its stunning design. There are many buildings dedicated the arts located in the complex including:

  • El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts) is an amazing an amazing opera house and cultural centre in the city. There are several different stages that can fit between 400 and 1700 people.
  • L'Hemisfèric, contains an IMAX theatre, Planetarium and Laserium.
  • L'Umbracle is a nice walkway and garden area.
  • El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe (the Museum of Sciences) is a museum dedicated to the sciences. There are exhibits ranging from spy science all the way to biometrics.
  • L'Oceanogràfic is one of the largest aquariums in Europe with more then 45,000 animals, which include sharks, penguins, dolphins, sea lions, beluga whales and walruses. The park is divided into ten areas that reflect different kinds of habitats.

Beaches

  • Port Beach
  • Malvarossa Beach

Other Sights and Activities

  • Basílica De La Virgen De Los Desamparados is a nice gothic style church.
  • The Cathedral of Valencia is a stunning cathedral with a great dome and a long history.
  • Lonja de la Seda (Silk Exchange) is a stunning late gothic style civil structure built from 1482 to 1548. The designer Guillem Sagrera made the building at the height of the cities economic power in the 15th century.
  • Plaça de l'Ajuntament is the largest square in the city and contains the town hall, a classical cinema and many restaurants and bars.

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Events and Festivals

Freckled Falla

Freckled Falla

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  • Falles is a city tradition that celebrates Saint Joseph's Day on the 19th of March. Each year every neighbourhood in the city has a group of people that create a falla, which is then burnt. The entire city comes out for the festival in their Felles dress and it can get very crazy.
  • La Tomatina, is a festival that starts the week before the last Wednesday of August in the town of Buñol which is 38 kilometres outside of Valencia. For the week before people party and there is a famous cooking contest the night before the fight. On the last Wednesday of August the massive tomato fight begins with 20,000 to 40,000 tourist coming to participate in this epic battle in a town of only 9,000 people.

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Weather

Valencia has a typical Mediterranean climate with warm and dry summers and mild but wetter winters. Summers last from late May to September when average daytime temperatures are mostly between 26 and 30 °C while nights are warm at 18 to 21 °C. Winters last from December to February when during the day the temperatures are between 16 and 18 °C and nights average about 7 or 8 °C. Annual precipitation is low at around 450mm. Most of the rain falls from September to December and summers (June to August) are driest.

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Getting There

By Plane

Valencia Airport (VLC) is the 8th busiest airport in Spain. The airport has flights to about 15 European countries with about 6 million passengers a year. The airport is connected to the city by a regular bus, which takes 45 minutes, a shuttle service, which takes 20 minutes, and the metro, which takes 15 minutes.
Air Nostrum has flights to a number of Spanish cities, including Madrid, Bilbao, Seville and Málaga, and others include Casablanca, Dubrovnik, Madeira and Lisbon. Ryanair flies to/from Bari, Bologna, Brussels, Cagliari, Dublin, East Midlands, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Pisa, Rome and Weeze (near Düsseldorf).
Other airlines have flights to places like Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva, New York, Prague, Zürich, Bucharest and Stuttgart.

By Train

Estación Del Norte is the main train station in town and is designed in an art deco style.
RENFE is Spain's national railway company and there are highspeed trains travelling to and from Madrid and Barcelona, among other cities.

By Car

From Madrid, Valencia can be reached by taking the A-3 highway. From Barcelona, you take the A-7 going south along the coast. The A-7 continues to Alicante and Cartagena. The A-23 connects Zaragoza with Valencia.

By Bus

Eurolines has buses to other destinations in Spain, Morocco and many European countries/cities.

By Boat

Balearic Islands

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Getting Around

By Car

Apart from taking a taxi, using your own car is not really advisable. It can get crowded and parking is expensive.

By Public Transport

Valencia Metro has six lines that make it very easy to get around the city, even to the airport. A one way tickets costs €1.40.
EMT has buses all around the city.

By Foot

Most of Valencia can easily be explored on foot, though the beaches and City of Arts and Sciences requires some form of public transport, taxi or bike.

By Bike

Do You Bike has bikes for rent for €7 a day.

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Eat

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Drink

Valencia has a great nightlife. The alternative/bohemian bars and nightclubs are mainly located in the Carmen area, while the student nightlife is concentrated around Blasco Ibanez. The more mainstream weekend nightlife is around the Canovas and Juan Llorens areas. During the summer it is possible to party on the beach at Port and Malvarossa Beach.

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Sleep

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PropertyAddressTypePopularity
11flatsC/Santo Tomas 22Apartment78
40flatsAv. Instituto Obrero 20, ValenciaApartment85
ABC-BnBCalle Almirante Cadarso 14Guesthouse91
Alma ApartmentsCalle Murillo 22 pta 3Apartment100
Apartamentos Botanico 29c/ Botanico 29Apartment90
Apartamentos el PilarC/ Roger de Flor 42- ValenciaApartment90
Apartamentos La LonjaSagrario de la Compañia 4Apartment94
Apartamentos La Lonja 2Poeta Alberola, Calle Danzas 3, Calle Albacete 42Apartment93
Arenas ValenciaPavia 27 DGuesthouse75
B&B Mare de Deu - CanovasCalle Cirilo Amoros, 82 Puerta 6 - ValenciaGuesthouse75
B&B Mare de Deu-Artes y CienciasAvenida Baleares, 73 Puerta 70 - ValenciaGuesthouse73
Beach Guesthouse ValenciaCalle Vicente Ballester, 23Guesthouse61
Beach Homec/ Jose Benlliure 48-4Guesthouse79
Bed&Breakfast Casa La PresiaCalle del Sol 31Guesthouse100
Beta Hotel ValenciaMaria Zambrano 2 La ElianaHotel47
Blue Moon ApartmentsCalle Portal de Valldigna, 8 ValenciaApartment88
CabanalVicente Ballester 16 puerta 5Guesthouse71
Casa de MariposasPartida el Raco Urb La Redonda CanalsGuesthouse85
Casa Maria ValenciaFelipe Vives de Canamas 26Guesthouse57
Center-ValenciaSamaniego, 18Hostel82
El Plantio VillaCalle 210 Numero 6. La Canada (Paterna). Postal CoGuesthouse-
Hilux Valencia - Feetup HostelsCalle Cadirers 11 -1º Barrio del CarmenHostel92
Home BackpackersPlaza Vicente Iborra s/nHostel86
Hôme Youth HostelCalle la Lonja 4Hostel92
Hostal El CidCalle Cerrajeros 13Guesthouse82
Hostal Moratincalle Moratin, 15 46002 ValenciaHostel80
Hostal WaksmanAvenue Doctor Waksman 29Guesthouse65
Husa AlaquásAvenida Pablo Iglesias 32 46970 AlaquasHotel83
Husa DimarGran Vía Marqués del Turia 80 46005Hotel91
Husa LlarColon 46 46004Hotel65
Husa Mas CamarenaNicolas Copernico 2 parque tecnologico 46980 PaternaHotel74
Husa Reina VictoriaBarcas 4 6 46002Hotel86
Indigo Youth HostelCalle Guillem de Castro, 64Hostel87
Intercultural NovaIsabel de Villena 29Guesthouse78
Kris AbadiaAvenida Campanar 90Hotel83
Kris Consul del MarAvenida del Puerto 39Hotel100
Las Fallas Guest HouseDon Juan de Austria, 5Guesthouse82
Living ValenciaPlaza de la Merced, 3Apartment89
Malva Beach B&BIsabel de Villenal 99DGuesthouse79
Malvarrosa Bed and BreakfastIsabel de Villenal 27 MalvarrosaGuesthouse83
Patacona Resort, Sport & RelaxAvinguda de Mare Nostrum 15Apartment-
Pension CadizCadiz, 92 door 13Guesthouse80
Petit Palace BristolAbadia de San Martin,3Hotel89
Petit Palace GermaniasSueca,6 46006Hotel86
Purple Nest Hostel ValenciaPlaza Tetuán nº 5Hostel87
Red Nest Hostel ValenciaCalle Paz 36Hostel88
Residencia Campus Confort BurjassotAv. Primero de Mayo,4 BurjassotHostel76
Rooms Deluxe HostelAvenida Instituto Obrero 20Hostel87
Russafa Youth HostelPadre Perera 5-1Hostel75
TurisgayvalenciaAutopista del Saler 8-Pta 71Guesthouse96
Valencia BeachPlaza de Jesus de Medicaneli 2Guesthouse62
Valencia BighouseC/ Padre Luis Navarro 71Apartment86
VLC ApartmentsCalle Martín Mengod 6Apartment93

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