Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Valencia, Spain
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8.3 km
130 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 ValenciaSight 1: les Drassanes del Grau
The Grao shipyards of the city of Valencia (L'Horta) located in the Plaza de Juan Antonio Benlliure, are shipyards built in the fourteenth century in Gothic style.
Sight 2: Jardins d'Aiora
The Palace and Garden of Ayora, is a set formed by a recreational town and the landscaped area that is around it, which is located in the Ayora neighborhood, belonging to the Camins district to the Grao in the city of Valencia. The gardens and the palace have several accesses through different streets, the access to the palace would be on the street of Los Santos Justo and Pastor and the accesses to the gardens and other facilities that complete the whole, through the streets of the industry, of Jeroni de Jeroni Montsoriu and the humanist furió.
Sight 3: El Parotet
The Parotet is a well-known monument located in the Glorieta de Europa, east of the city of Valencia, near the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències and the Torre de Francia. It gets its name from its resemblance to the dragonfly insect.
Sight 4: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
Book Free Tour*The City of Arts and Sciences is a cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important and modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
Sight 5: Reina Sofia Palace of the Arts
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is an opera house, performing arts centre, and urban landmark designed by Santiago Calatrava to anchor the northwest end of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. It opened on 8 October 2005; its first opera staging was of Beethoven's Fidelio on 25 October 2006. Tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo has maintained a special relationship with the Palau since its founding and has established a young singers training program there.
Sight 6: Museu Faller
Book Free Tour*The current Fallero Museum of Valencia has been installed since 1971 in the former Convent of the Casa Mission de San Vicente de Paül, which was finished in 1831, which is why it preserves part of a structure of corridors and old cells. Later it had multiple uses, as a prison, barracks or warehouse. The Fallero Museum was rehabilitated and restructured in the early nineties of the twentieth century, being reopened in 1995. In 2016 the Fallero Museum was approved as an Official Museum of the Generalitat Valenciana, being again restructured in its museological and museographic approaches. One of the novelties of this restructuring was the opening of the temporary exhibition hall "Josep Alarte", dedicated to anthological exhibitions of the work of Fallas artists.
Sight 7: Marqués del Túria
The Marquisate of Turia is a Spanish title of nobility granted by Alfonso XIII to Tomás Trénor y Palavicino for the promotion and execution of the Regional Exhibition held in Valencia in 1909.
Sight 8: Fuente Pública
The Public Fountain, popularly known as the Pink Panther, due to its shape and colour, is a monument located at the intersection of Avenida de Ausiàs March and Avenida de Peris i Valero, south of the city of Valencia. It was designed by the Valencian architect Miquel Navarro and erected in 1984. It commemorates the Túria-Júcar canal.
Sight 9: Parc Central
As a railway and urban operation, the Valencia Central Park project is the most important project currently being undertaken by the city of Valencia. From a railway point of view, Valencia is part of the network of Spanish cities connected by high speed and, when this action is completed, it will have a greater capacity for commuter services. On the urban side, thanks to the burial of the railway, part of the city centre will be recovered with a new park of 244,000 m² and new public facilities, also facilitating the integration of neighbourhoods now divided by the railway.
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