The 5 essential places if you are in Valencia If you are enjoying a wonderful stay in Valencia, you surely want to take advantage of all the opportunities that the city offers you. To confirm that you have already visited the most incredible places or go running to see them, Hispania, school
If you are enjoying a wonderful stay in Valencia, you surely want to take advantage of all the opportunities that the city offers you.
To confirm that you have already visited the most incredible places or rush to see them, Hispania, Spanish school brings you a list with the 5 places you can't miss of this beautiful Mediterranean city. Are you ready?
Miguelete is one of the towers most loved by Valencians, as it has lived many curious stories and, in addition, it is the best viewpoint that the city has.
If you climb this tower, you can contemplate all the beauty of the views of Valencia: the Plaza de la Virgen y de la Reina, the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and the hundreds of spectacular buildings and monuments that decorate each of its streets... By the way, are you fit to climb its 207 steps? Don't be scared because it's worth it.
When you get to the top and look around you will fall in love with our city.
If you are a lover of futurism, the City of Arts and Sciences is one of the things that you cannot miss for anything in the world.
It is a large architectural complex designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, located at the end of the old channel of the Turia River.
In it, you can enjoy the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, where you will learn everything about the history and contributions of science with the latest technology, or the Hemisféric, where films are projected in IMAX, or also the Oceanográfic, one of the largest aquariums in all of Europe, where you can sleep surrounded by real sharks.
Will you dare?
If you take a walk through the charming Carmen neighborhood and you get to Plaza Lope de Vega, you will find a curious house only 107 centimeters wide.
It is the narrowest house in all of Europe and the second in the entire world; It is only surpassed by the so-called “Metro House” of Brazil, with 100 centimeters.
This house is now connected to the bar next door and its owner has turned it into a kind of museum of this narrow curiosity.
In the past, a family lived there and on each floor there was a different room: the first floor was the dining room, the second the bathroom, the third and the fourth a bedroom.
Are you really going to leave Valencia without having seen this little house?
You cannot leave Valencia without having visited the Central Market. In it, you can find all the typical natural products of our lands with the best quality. You will feel like you are totally immersing yourself in the flavor of the Mediterranean.
In addition, you will find many shopkeepers working in the 1,200 stalls, happy to explain everything you need to know about the products they offer.
But gastronomy is not the only reason why it is an essential visit, since it is also an architectural jewel.
This building of more than 8,000 square meters has a dome covered with colored mosaics that create a magical play of light inside.
Furthermore, its majestic façade is a true work of art. You won't regret coming.
Did you know that Valencia had an immense river that is now an incredible natural park? How do you hear it! In 1960, the Turia River was diverted to prevent floods from flooding the city of Valencia and its 120 hectares were used to build one of the largest urban parks in Spain.
Walking through this park is something you should do if you are visiting Valencia, because you will fall in love with its different species of trees and flowers, the large statue of Gulliver full of slides that not even adults can avoid jumping down, the bridges of different styles that give access to the city and many more surprises from nature!
If you want to know what curious story happened in the Miguelete tower, practice yoga or take a tour bicycle along the Turia river, visit the City of Arts and Sciences participating in all its activities, or climb the Torre del Migueleteto see the city from another perspective, then you have to come running to Hispania, Spanish school because we have all the activities that will allow you to become an expert in Valencia. And if you also want to improve your Spanish, come and see our incredible spanish courses. We are waiting for you!
Article written by Rita Rodriguez Varela for Hispania, Spanish school.