Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Valencia, Spain

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 9 km
Ascend 178 m
Descend 166 m

Explore Valencia in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in ValenciaIndividual Sights in Valencia

Sight 1: Jardins del Real

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The Jardines del Real, also called Jardín de Viveros, are an urban public park in Spain located in the city of Valencia.

Wikipedia: Jardines del Real (ES)

781 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Busto de Bernardo Ferrándiz

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Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes was a Spanish costumbrista painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the "Escuela Malagueña".

Wikipedia: Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (EN)

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Palau de Benicarló

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The Palace of Benicarló is an aristocratic palace of Valencian Gothic and Renaissance styles located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is now the headquarters of the Valencian Parliament.

Wikipedia: Palace of the Borgias (EN)

276 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Palau del marques de campo

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Palau del marques de campo

The Palace of the Marqués de Campo or Berbedel is located in Plaza del Arqueobispo n. 3 in the city of Valencia. It is a residential building built in the seventeenth century, with works carried out in the nineteenth century. It houses the City Museum.

Wikipedia: Palau del Marqués de Campo (CA)

142 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Iglesia de San Esteban

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The Iglesia de San Esteban is a parish church located in Plaça de Sant Esteve in the city of Valencia, in the Valencian Community, Spain.

Wikipedia: Church of San Esteban (Valencia) (EN)

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Valencia Cathedral

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Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia, also known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Valencia, Spain.

Wikipedia: Valencia Cathedral (EN)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Torre del Micalet

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The Miguelete Tower is the bell tower of the Valencia Cathedral in Valencia, Spain. It is known as El Miguelete in Castilian Spanish or Torre del Micalet in the Valencian language. Construction of the tower began in 1381 and was completed in 1429. Due to its complexity and long years of construction, it was successively directed by several master builders; the first being Andrés Juliá, from 1381. Others were José Franch (1396), Pedro Balaguer ; to Martín Llobet (1425), the last of the architects to work on the construction. Subsequently, the belfry was added (1660-1736).

Wikipedia: Miguelete Tower (EN)

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Basilica of the Virgin of the Helpless

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Basilica of the Virgin of the Helpless

The Basilica of Our Lady of the Homeless of the City of Valencia houses the image of the Virgin of the same name, the most revered by the Valencians.

Wikipedia: Basílica de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats (CA)

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Teatre Talia

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Teatre Talia

The Talia Theatre in Valencia is located at number 31 Calle de los Caballeros in the capital of the Turia. The building, owned by the Casa dels Obrers de Sant Vicent Ferrer, has 100 years of history. By virtue of an agreement, the space has been managed since 1992 by Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana. The hall has 243 fixed seats, 62 boxes on the first floor, 48 amphitheatre seats and 36 boxes on the second floor.

Wikipedia: Teatre Talia (València) (CA), Website

249 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Museo de los Soldaditos de Plomo L'Iber

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The L'Iber Lead Weld Museum is located on Caballeros Street number 20-22, in the old town of the city of Valencia, (Spain).

Wikipedia: Museo de Soldaditos de Plomo L’Iber (ES), Website

356 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Església de Sant Nicolau

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San Nicolás de Bari and San Pedro Mártir is a Valencian Gothic style, Roman Catholic parish church located in Valencia (Spain).

Wikipedia: Church of San Nicolás (Valencia) (EN)

597 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 12: Església de Santa Úrsula

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The Convent of Santa Úrsula is a Roman Catholic convent located in the city center of Valencia, Spain.

Wikipedia: Convento de Santa Úrsula (Valencia) (ES)

460 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 13: Botanic Garden of University of Valencia

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Botanic Garden of University of Valencia

The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia is a botanical garden located in the city of Valencia, within the Valencian Community, Spain.

Wikipedia: Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Valencia (ES), Website

1301 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 14: Complex Esportiu - Cultural Abastos

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The Mercado de Abastos is a building located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is located in the southeast expansion of the city, between Alberique and Buen Orden streets, occupying two blocks of the plot. It covers an area of 23,800 m², and was executed between 1939 and 1948 as a project by the architect Javier Goerlich Lleó, with the impetus of the then mayor of the city, Joaquín Manglano y Cucaló de Montull, Baron of Cárcer.

Wikipedia: Mercado de Abastos de Valencia (ES)

901 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 15: Convento de Santa Clara

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The convent of Santa Clara de Valencia is located at 119 Pérez Galdós Avenue in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is a cloistered convent founded in 1911 and inhabited by nuns of the Order of the Poor Clares.

Wikipedia: Convento de Santa Clara (Valencia) (ES)

827 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 16: Alqueria Julià

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The Alquería de Juliá, also called Huerta de Juliá, was located in the orchard of Valencia on the way to Mislata, and is currently located in the urban grid of the city of Valencia (Spain) between the current Avenida del Cid and the old bed of the Turia river, the complex has a façade to the streets Democràcia, Velázquez and Paseo de la Pechina. It is a seventeenth-century agricultural complex built in Mannerist and Baroque styles.

Wikipedia: Alquería de Juliá (ES)

1064 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 17: Parc de Capçalera

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Parc de Capçalera

Parque de Cabecera or Parque de la Cabecera is a municipal park in the city of Valencia, located at the western end of the municipality, in the neighborhoods of Sant Pau and Campanar. To the west it borders Mislata, and to the south with the district of Soternes; To the east, it adjoins the architectural barrier of Avenida de Pío Baroja. It occupies the part of the old Turia riverbed between its detour towards the new Turia riverbed, which runs south of Valencia, and the beginning of the Turia Gardens, at the Nuevo de Octubre bridge: the head of the river within the municipality. The park, completed in 2008, is one of the largest in the city.

Wikipedia: Parc de Capçalera (CA)

776 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 18: Valencia History Museum

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Valencia History Museum

The History Museum of Valencia (MhV) is a museum located in the city of Valencia whose mission is to know and publicize the historical development of the city. It was inaugurated in 2003 proposing the past of the city in a didactic and entertaining way, with innovative proposals of the current museography and combining the use of traditional exhibition resources and new technologies.

Wikipedia: Museu d'història de València (CA), Website

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