Insight Guides Pocket Valencia (Travel Guide eBook)
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Insight Pocket Guides: ideal itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package.
Compact, concise, and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What Do, this is an ideal on-the-move companion when you're exploring Valencia
Covers Top Ten Attractions, including the atmospheric Barrio del Carmen, Miguelete Tower and foodie heaven Mercado Central as well as Perfect Day itinerary suggestions
Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture
Contains an invaluable pull-out map, and essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around
Includes an innovative extra that's unique in the market - all Insight Pocket Guides come with a free eBook
Inspirational colour photography throughout
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How To Use This E-Book
Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Valencia, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Valencia, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Valencia are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Valencia. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
© 2018 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd
Table of Contents
Valencia’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Day In Valencia
Introduction
Valencia transformed
Living the good life
City and country
A Brief History
Muslim Valencia
The Middle Ages
Expulsion of the Moors
Industrialisation
The Civil War
The post-war period
Modern Valencia
Historical landmarks
Where To Go
City centre
Plaza del Ayuntamiento
Plaza de la Reina and Plaza Redonda
The cathedral
Outside the cathedral
Plaza de la Virgen
Barrio del Carmen
The market and La Lonja
Church of the Sts John
Mercado Central
La Lonja
Museo de Cerámica
The university and El Patriarca
Along the River Turia
The upper Turia
Museo de Bellas Artes
Los Viveros and beyond
The final stretch
The City of Arts and Sciences
Palau de les Arts
L’Hemisfèric
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
L’Umbracle
L’Oceanogràfic
The seafront
The port
The Paseo de Neptuno and Paseo Marítimo
The Cabanyal
Around the city
The huerta
La Albufera
Ceramics towns
El Puig Monastery
Excursions
Sagunt
Peñíscola
Gandía
Xàtiva (Játiva)
Denia and Jávea (Xàbia)
What To Do
Shopping
Where to look
Department stores and shopping centres
Markets and street markets
Fashion
Ceramics and other crafts
Fine food and wine
Paella pans
Furniture and antiques
Entertainment
Music
Theatre and cinema
Nightlife
Fiestas
Las Fallas
Easter week (Semana Santa)
Corpus Christi
July fair (Feria de Julio)
Sports
Spectator sports
Participant sports
Valencia for children
Calendar of events
Eating Out
Mealtimes
Paella
Other local specialities
Tapas
Wine and other drinks
Reading the Menu
To help you order
Menu reader
Restaurants
City centre
Restaurants
Tapas bars
Along the river
The seafront
Restaurants
Tapas bars
Outskirts
Bunol
Cullera
Denia
Gandia
Peniscola
Sagunt
Xativa
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation
Airports
B
Beaches
Bicycle hire
Budgeting for your trip
C
Camping
Car hire
Climate
Clothing
Crime and safety
D
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and consulates
Emergencies
G
Getting there
Guides and tours
H
Health and medical care
L
Language
Lost property
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening times
P
Photography
Police
Post offices
Public holidays
R
Religion
T
Telephones
Time zones
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist information
Transport
V
Visas and entry requirements
W
Websites and internet access
Y
Youth hostels
Recommended Hotels
City centre
Seafront
Outskirts
Denia
Gandia
Xativa
Peniscola
Valencia’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
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Miguelete tower
Climb the distinctive belltower of the cathedral. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #2
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Barrio del Carmen
The most fashionable part of the city, both night and day. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #3
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Las Fallas
A spectacular festival where sculpture meets fire. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #4
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Torres de Serranos
A reminder of the medieval city. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #5
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Mercado Central
A temple for good food. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #6
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Museo de Bellas Artes
View their first-rate art collection. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #7
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La Lonja
A silk merchants’ market dating from the 15th century. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #8
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La Albufera
One of Spain’s most important bird habitats. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #9
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Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
Valencia’s 21st-century architectural showcase, with lots to see and do. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #10
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Museo Nacional de Cerámica
A visual feast inside and out. For more information, click here.
A Perfect Day In Valencia
9.00am
Breakfast
Start your day in the splendidly tiled Horchateria Santa Catalina (Plaza Santa Catalina, 6). Its speciality is horchata, a sweet, milky drink made with tiger nuts usually drunk later in the day. A better choice for breakfast is a café con leche with an ensaimada (a soft, sweet bun).
10.00am
Medieval streets and Gothic architecture
For a tour of the old part of the city, head first for the Mercado Central, a glorious art nouveau market hall where you’ll see Valencia at its liveliest, and then cross the road to the graceful Gothic hall of La Lonja.
11.00am
Towering view
Then make your way through the atmospheric old streets of the Barrio del Carmen to the cathedral and climb its belfry, the Miguelete, for an unbeatable panoramic view over the city’s rooftops.
12 noon
To the seaside
Walk up the road from the Plaza del Virgen, behind the cathedral, to the river bank near the Torres del Serrano. Cross the pedestrian bridge in front of you to get to the tram station. Take line 4 to the port and have a stroll around the quayside, redeveloped for the America’s Cup.
2.00pm
Paella lunch
Enjoy Valencia’s signature dish with a long lazy paella lunch (ordered in advance) at La Pepica, or any other restaurant on the Paseo Neptuno which backs on to the beach.
4.00pm
Futuristic architecture
Catch metro line 5 to Alameda and walk up the river bank to the extraordinary gleaming white buildings of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències. Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie, the City of Arts and Sciences is modern architecture at its most striking.
7.00pm
Time for tapas
Head back to the centre and join the throngs converging on the city’s tapas bars for an evening drink and snack. One of the best is Bar Pilar (Moro Zeit, 13) which has been going since 1912 and is renowned for its mussels.
10.00pm
A night out
Have dinner in stylish Ricard Camarena Restaurant (Avda. Burjassot 54) and follow it with a nightcap in one of the many bars in the Barrio del Carmen. This is a good place to sample the city’s nightlife, but don’t get there too early as the action doesn’t get going properly until after midnight.
Introduction
If Valencians have a reputation in Spain for being a fortunate, rather blasé people, perhaps it isn’t so surprising. Spain’s third-largest city after Madrid and Barcelona, Valencia has a more privileged natural setting, a more agreeable climate and, consequently, arguably a better standard of living than either.
Founded by the Romans 2,000 years ago, it stands on a shallow scoop of a bay half-way down the Mediterranean coast. Curiously, however, the city wasn’t founded on the coast but a little way inland. Valencia, it always used to be said, had its back to the sea; with its commercial and fishing port kept at an avenue’s length from the city centre,