A Guide to Life in Valencia

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 [...]

Jardínes De Ayora
The Ayora Gardens are beautifully laid out, tranquil and peaceful and have a beautifully constructed modernist small palace, which was built in 1900.
The City council of Valencia bought the grounds of the Gardens of Ayora 1976 and began a long restoration and cleaning process of the gardens which had been left to [...]

The Jardines del Real, more commonly known as the Jardines de Viveros, is a delightful Valencia park featuring fragrant rose gardens, shady pine trees, statues to admire and benches to sit back and revel in the atmosphere.
These gardens are locally known as the Breeding grounds because in 1903 they were  given to the city council [...]

VALENCIA grew alongside the river Turia for many years until the devastating flood of 1957.
It was then decided that living alongside the river imposed a huge risk and the river was diverted. Today, the Turia’s old riverbed is the largest urban garden in Spain.
The old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park that allows [...]

The main attraction in the Turia riverbed is Parque Gulliver.
This is an amazing play area based around the figure of the mythical Gulliver, tied to the ground by the inhabitants of Lilliput. The slides provide hours of fun for children and adults and its completely free.

The Bioparc is a huge expanse covering over 25 acres, home to many of species of animals.
It is a zoo, but with a twist – a safari-like experience for the visitor, as the animals are in enclosures rather than cages, many without glass or fencing keeping them at bay.
For example, one of the zones you’ll [...]

The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia was founded in 1567.
Throughout 200 years it was an orchard of medicinal plants for Medicinal studies. Until the 19th century it occupied diverse locations in the city of Valencia. It was in 1802 when it definitively located it to the University in the Orchard of Tramoyeres, outside [...]