Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

Playa de Pinedo
Pinedo beach is the nearest beach outside of Valencia and it has a nudist section.
It is the closest of the southern beaches and the first stop out of the city, although it doesn’t have the quality of El Saler, which is only another 5 minutes down the road.
With the El Saler beach so close, there is no particular reason to visit unless you are looking for a nudist area although Playa de la Devesa is a better option for the serious nudists but it’s another 15 min by bus and 20-30 minutes on foot. La Devesa is a real nudist [...]

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 cyclists and pedestrians to traverse much of the city without the use of roads. The park, called the ‘Garden of the Turia’ (Jardí del Túria/Jardín del Turia) boasts numerous ponds, paths, fountains, flowers, football pitches, cafés, artworks, climbing walls, an athletics track, a zen garden and more. The [...]

Catedral Valencia
Centrally located on the Plaza de la Reina, this is the religious centre of Valencia and one of the city’s landmarks.
Many centuries ago, it used to be a mosque, but when El Cid conquered the city, it became a Roman Catholic cathedral. Later the city was re-conquered by the Muslims as part of the Arab Moorish invasion of Spain and the South of France. The cathedral again became a mosque.
Later, when the Christian King Jaume I  re-conquered Valencia it reverted to a Christian cathedral. The Miguelete bell tower (El Miguelete) is a hexagonal Gothic tower towering over Plaza de la Reina. [...]

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 Central Market of Valencia is constructed in a modernist style and was built in 1914.
The designers, Francisco Guard Vial and Alexander Soler, both trained at the School of Architecture of Barcelona and worked closely with Domènech i Montaner, an architect who characterized himself as a modernist.
There is great beauty in the architecture as well as the tradition and history of the market. The combination of metal, glass and the Gothic columns is a testament to modernism, as if the Market is a cathedral to the commerce-centre it once was.
The market is located at the Plaza del Mercado, next to La Lonja [...]

The Towers of Highlands (or Door of Highlands) were constructed at the end of 14th century.
Their initial function was to serve as fortification, a fact that testifies to their heavy walls and their solidiness, but they were generally used for ceremonies and official entrances for important personalities that visited the city, the main reason why they are considered to be the main entrance to the city of Valencia.
Their name seems to come from the fact that they are located approximately to the northwest, therefore, they were the natural entrance that communicated with the ways to the Highlands (the Camino Real of Saragossa, that [...]

Playa de El Saler
El Saler beach really is the jewel in the crown of the Valencia coast, it is a breathtaking blue flag beach.
Bountiful white sand, dunes, crystal clear blue water and gentle breezes makes El Saler is top quality. This is really is Valencian beaching at its best.
El Saler is only half an hour bus trip from the centre of Valencia and does become extremely popular on the international level in the summer. If you want the same quality and lesser crowds you should carry on to La Devesa.

Valencia has never had a bridge as versatile as it is in the port. It started as a step drawbridge, continued as fixed and is now part of the dial to the Formula 1 street circuit.
The Port was proud of their bridge, a double-leaf bascule bridge for road and rail traffic, but quickly found it would no longer have its original use as a cargo entry point, when Valencia was designated to host the 32nd edition of the Copa America.
Therefore the port had to undergo a transformation and the cargo ships would cease to enter the inner harbour, this area would only be [...]