How to Make the Most Out of Your Visit to Valencia
Valencia is the third largest city of Spain.
Valencia is not only famous for its impressive cultivation of lemon and orange groves, it is also the original birthplace of paella, one of Spain's favorite natives and of course visitor's dishes.
With its huge groves of rice, it is not surprising that almost all the classic Spanish rice dishes originate from Valencia.
The traditional Paella Valenciana is made with rabbit, snails, green beans and of course rice.
The variety of different paella dishes in Spain is as diverse as the local ingredients.
important square in the city of Valencia is the Plaza de l'Ajuntament, where we can find the City Council and numerous bars and restaurants that offer all type of Valencian typical food.
It is in the Plaza de l'Ajuntament where the noisy firecrackers and fireworks of the Mascleta catch on during the famous Fallas every year in Spring.
Las Fallas is one of the best-known and emblematic festivals in Spain that continues growing in popularity every year.
Fallas are giant figures of papier mache, wood and wax, representing personalities and current events.
Popularly known as the "Ninots", these stunning works of art are burned in the night of San Juan.
They may be of symbolic or satirical theme and realistic or comic strip in style.
Las Fallas are realised with extreme respect in the different workshops scattered throughout the city, this development gets to take up to one year.
Thousands of visitors join the people of Valencia in this festival of fire and color.
Another very popular tourist festivity is the traditional La Tomatina, a tomato fight that takes place every year on the last Wednesday of August in Bunol, a town near Valencia.
This event has become one of the most important festivals in Spain, with thousands of people who come year after year to this small town of Valencia to celebrate with the people of Bunol the traditional battle of tomatoes (La Tomatina).
L'Oceanographic is the largest aquarium in Europe, with a multitude of water species such as beluga whales from the Arctic to the most common fish from the Mediterranean.
Located in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences, L'Oceanographic uses the most modern technology to recreate marine life from around the world.
The aquarium has ten different geographic sections where visitors can enjoy the beauty of many marine species such as butterfly fish in the auditorium of the Red Sea, Patagonian sea lions and Antarctic penguins.
Visitors can follow their unforgettable experience from the underwater restaurant and enjoy a good plate of Paella surrounded by multicoloured fish behind a glass.
Not far from Valencia we find one of the biggest amusement parks of Europe.
Terra Mitica is located near the popular tourist resort of Benidorm and has five areas inspired on the Mediterranean civilisations: Greece, Egypt, Rome, Iberia and the Islands.
The most striking attractions are the Magnus Colossus, the largest wooden roller coaster in Europe, which reaches speeds of 100 km per hour and the Flight of the Phoenix, which has an acceleration of 100 km per hour in his spectacular 54 m free fall.
All in one, a multitude of attractions which will leave the visitor speechless, with over 20 live shows and 300 actors and specialists.
Valencia is not only famous for its impressive cultivation of lemon and orange groves, it is also the original birthplace of paella, one of Spain's favorite natives and of course visitor's dishes.
With its huge groves of rice, it is not surprising that almost all the classic Spanish rice dishes originate from Valencia.
The traditional Paella Valenciana is made with rabbit, snails, green beans and of course rice.
The variety of different paella dishes in Spain is as diverse as the local ingredients.
important square in the city of Valencia is the Plaza de l'Ajuntament, where we can find the City Council and numerous bars and restaurants that offer all type of Valencian typical food.
It is in the Plaza de l'Ajuntament where the noisy firecrackers and fireworks of the Mascleta catch on during the famous Fallas every year in Spring.
Las Fallas is one of the best-known and emblematic festivals in Spain that continues growing in popularity every year.
Fallas are giant figures of papier mache, wood and wax, representing personalities and current events.
Popularly known as the "Ninots", these stunning works of art are burned in the night of San Juan.
They may be of symbolic or satirical theme and realistic or comic strip in style.
Las Fallas are realised with extreme respect in the different workshops scattered throughout the city, this development gets to take up to one year.
Thousands of visitors join the people of Valencia in this festival of fire and color.
Another very popular tourist festivity is the traditional La Tomatina, a tomato fight that takes place every year on the last Wednesday of August in Bunol, a town near Valencia.
This event has become one of the most important festivals in Spain, with thousands of people who come year after year to this small town of Valencia to celebrate with the people of Bunol the traditional battle of tomatoes (La Tomatina).
L'Oceanographic is the largest aquarium in Europe, with a multitude of water species such as beluga whales from the Arctic to the most common fish from the Mediterranean.
Located in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences, L'Oceanographic uses the most modern technology to recreate marine life from around the world.
The aquarium has ten different geographic sections where visitors can enjoy the beauty of many marine species such as butterfly fish in the auditorium of the Red Sea, Patagonian sea lions and Antarctic penguins.
Visitors can follow their unforgettable experience from the underwater restaurant and enjoy a good plate of Paella surrounded by multicoloured fish behind a glass.
Not far from Valencia we find one of the biggest amusement parks of Europe.
Terra Mitica is located near the popular tourist resort of Benidorm and has five areas inspired on the Mediterranean civilisations: Greece, Egypt, Rome, Iberia and the Islands.
The most striking attractions are the Magnus Colossus, the largest wooden roller coaster in Europe, which reaches speeds of 100 km per hour and the Flight of the Phoenix, which has an acceleration of 100 km per hour in his spectacular 54 m free fall.
All in one, a multitude of attractions which will leave the visitor speechless, with over 20 live shows and 300 actors and specialists.