Interesting Things To Do in Valencia

An Overview of Valencia

Valencia is a beautiful city found on Spain’s southeastern coast where the Turia River flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The city is known for it’s historic and modern culture combinations, as well as its impressively futuristic City of Arts and Sciences, interactive museums, relaxing beaches and nearby wetland reserves. The city is also famed for it’s explosively popular festivals, including Las Fallas in March and La Tomatina in August. There are many interesting things to do in Valencia.

Interesting Things To Do In Valencia

Valencia Bioparc

This is a wide 10 hectare zoo-park with a special emphasis on the care and growth of African fauna. Many of the habitats within reflect this, with staggered stones, unique trees and savannah enclosures.

L’Oceanografic

This is a gorgeously elegant oceanarium placed in the dry Turia River bed with sweeping pools of perfect blue. Many different marine animals and their habitats are represented within.

Parque Gulliver

This is a unique and whimsical park structure created from the contorted and fallen body of Gulliver complete with slides, tunnels and climbing handholds. The character of Gulliver comes from Gulliver’s Travels, a famous satirical adventure story first published in 1726.

El Carmen Street Art

This is a brightly painted area following dusty tan walls. El Carmen Street is the most highly concentrated zone of street murals in the entire city.

Parque de Cabecera

Once a part of the historic Turia River, this old riverbed greenspace is now an expansive biopark with wide garden spaces and shaded hangout areas. It offers excellent walking trails for wandering through the city.

City of Arts and Sciences Centre

Locally written as Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, this is the curved and alien tourist attraction in Valencia. The futuristic-looking area has a combination of arching white domes, massive shelters of greenery, educational destinations and wide pools of shallow, blue water.

Playa de la Malvarrosa Beach

This is the most famous and well-known of all beaches in Valencia. The buildings and streets around the beach area have an artistic reputation. The beach also hosts several famous city festivals yearly.

L’iber Museo de Los Soldaditos de Plomo Toy Soldier Museum

This is a strange and wonderful diorama museum created with legions of tiny tin soldiers. The figures portray different points in history by wearing period-appropriate attire, standing in formations or re-enacting important events.

Central Market of Valencia

While the primary purpose of this space is a public market adjacent to the Llotja de la Seda, the Central Market of Valencia is startlingly beautiful. It espouses a prime example of the Valencia Art Nouveau.

Holy Chalice of Valencia

Throuhout the world, there are numerous relics on display claiming to be the Holy Grail used by Jesus during the Last Supper. While some are carved wooden cups, stone bowls or jewel-encrusted goblets, the Holy Chalice Vessel in Valencia is an agate cup preserved in the Cathedral of Valencia.

Espai Verd

Directly translating to “Green Space,” this structure is a housing complex built in Valencia with a focus on vegetation and greenery improvements. The white, multi-tiered structure was designed to manage space and light, allowing more green-spaces to thrive within the structure.

Albufera Park

The Albufera, La Albufera or L’Albufera de València is a wondrous national park and hiking area to the south of Valencia. This amazing nature preserve hosts a famous freshwater lagoon, numerous hiking trails and incredible cliffside views of the sea.

Sagunto Roman Settlement

Located roughly a half hour north of Valencia, Sagunto is the site of the largest intact Roman fort on the Iberian Peninsula. The fort was a definitive location through history, playing a vital role during the Second Punic War of 218 BCE despite being conquered by Hannibal’s invasion.

Puente de las Flores (the Flowers Bridge)

This bridge walking space crosses over the popular Turia Gardens area. The structure is packed with colorful and vivid flowers throughout the year. The flowers change several times per year depending on the season and local festivals.

The Fallas and The Fallas Museum (Museu Faller de València)

Once of Valencia’s most famous festivals is a two-week celebration in March which utilizes massive daily firework displays, hundreds of burning floats and hours of festivities and music. For visitors arriving in Valencia during other months, the Fallas Museum showcases some of the preserved figures saved from the burning portion of the parade. The festival is widely regarded as one of the most interesting things to do in Valencia.

La Tomatina

One of the most notorious festivals in Spain is La Tomatina. This free-for-all Tomato food-fight sees hoards of people smashing red produce against one another. The festival takes place at the end of August in the Valencian town of Buñol, roughly an hour West of Valencia.

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