Destination Management Valencia

Valencia is the Spain’s third-largest city and it has 300 sunny days in a year. Valencia represents the real Spain, a charming Mediterranean city surrounded by orange groves and rice fields just waiting to be discovered. Valencia brings a new surprise as picturesque narrow alleyways open up into beautiful squares with monumental buildings and fountains. The medieval Silk Exchange, the Modernist style Central Market, the impressive Gothic Cathedral (where the Holy Grail resides!) with its adjacent Basilica and Micalet Bell Tower – all are within a short walk of each other.

Just south of the city the vast inland freshwater lake and Natural Park of Albufera is surrounded by acres of paddy fields producing the basic product for the most famous of Spanish dishes and local speciality Paella. The city is on the sea with literally miles of unspoilt beaches and plenty of seafront restaurants.

The old quarter is concentrated enough to cover many of the major sights on foot. The City of Arts and Science has been built in the former bed of Valencia’s river, the Turia, which has for many years been diverted around the outskirts of the city. The Turia River transformed into a garden blooming with little details, such as flowers that grow all year under the Mediterranean sun, huge trees and maze like bushes.