A Guide to Life in Valencia

The Museu Natural Valencià d’Història is a non profit institution aiming to reach all of society, with the purpose of promoting, exhibiting and studying the natural historical patrimony, with a special interest in the region of Valencia.
Since its creation in 1978, the museum has been managed by the Entomology Foundation TORRES SALA, and maintains two [...]

The Parque de Cabecera extends the green area of the dried out river bed and continues on to the diverted river. It is an ideal place to enjoy with kids.
The park has two main sections, the Montaña Mirador and the Bosque de Ribera Mediterraneo which recreates the original landscape of the Turia River.
Found at the [...]

La Ciudad de la Porcelana
In 1953 Juan, José and Vicente Lladró made their first creations in a Moorish furnace built in their own home in Almàssera (Valencia). Using this technique, they developed their artistic interest while working in a tile and crockery factory. These carefully designed pieces already had a special charm that awakened public [...]

Santiago Calatrava’s “L’Assut de D’Or” bridge majestically straddles the river Turia and when it was opened it became the 19th bridge across the river.
The L’Assut de D’Or is now Spain ’s longest bridge at 180 metres in length by 39 metres wide. It cost  over €34.4 million and reaches  a height of 123 metres [...]

The Puente Nou D’Octubre was built to commemorate the events of the 9th of October (the day when King James I the Conqueror, entered the city of Valencia, after the capitulation of 1238 Muslim) and it sits at the western end of the riverbed.
It was built in the eighties by the promising, but not yet [...]

The Puente De Monteolivete spans majestically over the City of Arts and Sciences linking the Pl. Europa and the Av. Autopista del Saler Valencia. This bridge became very famous when Pope Benedict XVI visited and gave Mass in July 2006.
It is consistently aesthetic to its surroundings and offers an amazing view of the Arts and [...]

The Puente del Mar gets it’s name from being the natural way to the Grao or port, where the city’s goods arrived.
It was originally constructed of wood and but was destroyed in the flood of 1487. It was rebuilt in a factory but was destroyed again by the flood of 1589, having to be rebuilt [...]

The Puente De Los Astilleros or the Puente De Nazaret links Ejército Español and Camino de las Moreras.
Puente De Los Astilleros crosses the river linking the Nazaret district and the Port, between the dockyards and the marine Headquarters.
It is built with reinforced concrete and artificial stone, with railings made from cast iron and [...]

The Puente del Angel Custodio was designed by the Municipal Engineer Arturo Piera.
It was constructed of reinforced concrete, has six straight sections and two points on central arbours.
The hedges are organised centrally and side roads run across the bridge. Rectangular mini roundabouts provide the links onto the riverbed below. It connects the old inner [...]

Puente de las Artes was constructed in the late 1990s, at the dawn of the new millennium, designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster (who also created Valencia’s Conference Centre).
It joins the road Guillem de Castro with that of Padre Ferris. It was designed around and on the Turia Riverbed Gardens, not to have a [...]