What to see in Valencia: places worth visiting

Europe's largest aquarium: more than 45,000 animals from 500 species in settings that recreate the planet's seas, including an underwater…

A hands-on science museum where touching is mandatory: three floors built for experimenting with electricity, DNA and outer space.

Calatrava's giant eye conceals Spain's largest IMAX cinema and planetarium, with a 900 m² dome that immerses you in the cosmos and the…

Valencia's Gothic cathedral, begun in 1262 atop the old main mosque, blends Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles.

A civil Gothic building and World Heritage Site, with a Trading Hall of Solomonic columns that look like palm trees of stone.

One of Europe's largest fresh-food markets and a cathedral of Art Nouveau: iron, glass and ceramics beneath great domes, with more than 250…

The monumental gateway to medieval Valencia: two 14th-century Gothic towers that once welcomed kings and ambassadors.

The other great gate of the medieval wall, sister to the Serranos towers.

A new-generation zoo with no bars in sight: the African savanna is recreated with moats and natural barriers and the animals seem to roam…

A former Art Nouveau market of iron and ceramic tilework, bright and airy, now a space of cafés, horchata bars and terraces.

In an alley in El Carmen, this Gothic church has Baroque frescoes covering the entire vault, which earned it the nickname of the Valencian…

This 17th-century Baroque basilica is home to Our Lady of the Forsaken, Valencia's patron and the city's spiritual heart.

A world-class ceramics collection inside the Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas, whose rococo alabaster doorway is one of Valencia's most…

Spain's second most important art gallery has works by Velázquez, Goya, Sorolla and the largest collection of Valencian primitives.

Facing the Llotja and the Central Market, this Gothic-rooted church, later rebuilt in Baroque style, has reopened after a long restoration.

The most talked-about contemporary art centre in València, opened in 2023 inside the restored 17th-century Palacio de Valeriola.

Spain's largest indoor arena, opened in 2025 next to the City of Arts.

16th-century botanical garden with more than 4,500 species, greenhouses and green corners right in the city.

A giant free playground in the old Turia riverbed: a 70-metre figure of Gulliver lying down that kids explore via slides and ramps.

A 19th-century neoclassical garden with geometric hedges, marble statues, stone lions and fountains that looks like it was lifted from an…

A near-circular plaza hidden among the alleys of the old town, ringed by stalls selling haberdashery, lace and traditional souvenirs around…

Spain's first public museum of modern art. Its collection is built around sculptor Julio González and the 20th-century avant-garde, with…

A 13th-century Gothic convent turned into València's main contemporary art centre, with installations, performances and exhibitions that…

A museum of ideas devoted to the Enlightenment and modern thought, with an immersive permanent exhibition and temporary design and…

The museum's Iberian archaeology holdings are among the most important in Europe, with finds from the Tossal de Sant Miquel and Roman…

The city's most historic tree-lined promenade, opened in 1677 along the north bank of the old riverbed.

The rooftop of the Hotel Barceló Valencia, in the City of Arts and Sciences district: cocktails with views over Calatrava's buildings and…

The terrace atop the historic Ateneo Mercantil building, with a direct view over Plaza del Ayuntamiento and the rooftops of the centre: one…

The only rooftop in the old town open to anyone bold enough to walk in: you ride a lift 50 metres up inside the Ateneo's grand building and…

A former fishing village with streets of low houses covered in ceramic tiles and colourful trencadís, street art and old-school taverns.

Valencia's neighbourhood with the strongest village feel: an always-lively square, urban allotments, street art, a Thursday market and…

An 1836 tavern with century-old wooden barrels where tapas are served much as they were a hundred years ago; named Best Wine Bar in Spain…

Since 1921 this Cabanyal bodega has been one of the temples of the Valencian esmorzaret, awarded the Cacau d'Or for its outsized…

A 1930s Art Deco factory turned into the city's first permanent venue for digital and immersive art.

A café-bar with lavish baroque decor, full of flowers, candelabra and velvet, that recalls a Parisian salon from another century.

A miniature house set into a wall, built for the neighborhood's cats.

Right on the seafront, this late-19th-century hall once housed the oxen that dragged the bou fishing boats up onto the sand, a trade that…

This family tavern from 1957, tucked just behind Carrer de Benlliure, is known among Valencians as the temple of the anchovy: they desalt…

The home and studio of the Benlliure family of painters, with its Art Nouveau garden and a light-filled atelier that feels frozen in time.

Beneath a sheet of water in the square hides an underground museum with the remains of Roman, Visigothic and Arab Valentia.

Two streets from the bustle, the colonnaded courtyard of La Nau — the historic seat of the Universitat de València since the 15th century —…

A few metres from the Cathedral, almost nobody descends into this tiny 6th-century Visigothic funerary chapel, uncovered in a 1989 dig…

Almost everyone rushes past on their way to the beach without noticing this elegant 1914 neoclassical building, the old maritime station…

The terrace-restaurant atop the Only YOU Hotel Valencia, next to Plaza del Ayuntamiento: elevated views over the historic centre in a…

An exhibition space that brings major art names to Valencia, from Sorolla to Picasso, in temporary shows.

One of the six founding parishes of James I; tradition holds that Saint Vincent Ferrer was baptised here.

Known as the "Valencian Sistine Chapel", this Gothic church covers its interior in Baroque frescoes by Dionís Vidal, painted to designs by…

Its unmistakable hexagonal Baroque bell tower is one of the recognisable outlines on Valencia's old-town skyline.

Right beside the Botanical Garden, almost everyone walks straight past without realising that behind the cypress walls lies a garden built…

A green retreat around an old Art Nouveau farmhouse, with century-old trees and barely any tourists.

A quiet garden laid out among the remains of the old General Hospital, birthplace in 1409 of the world's first modern asylum.

The city's oldest and largest historic public garden, rooted in the medieval royal palace that once stood here.

A free-entry rooftop right in the Eixample district, above the NH Collection Valencia Colón hotel: a no-cost alternative to the paid…

Calatrava's elevated garden walkway in the City of Arts and Sciences: arches almost 18 metres high and views over the rest of the complex…

A former ice factory at the port reborn as a cheeky cultural space, with a bar, markets, exhibitions and live concerts almost every day.

The oldest romantic garden in central València, created in the early 19th century and known for its enormous monumental ficus trees with…

A Renaissance Hieronymite monastery commissioned by the Duke of Calabria in the 16th century, sometimes called "the Valencian Escorial".

The house that keeps the 'rocas', the monumental Corpus Christi floats that have paraded through València since 1434, alongside giants,…

The world's largest collection of toy lead soldiers, with more than a million pieces recreating entire battles, inside a Gothic palace.

It's one of the oldest bullfighting museums in the world, run by the provincial council beside the historic bullring in L'Eixample.

A journey through the city's 2,000-plus years, from Roman Valentia to the present, with scale models and a clever audiovisual 'time…

A stately palace beside the Cathedral holding the city's artistic heritage: painting, ceramics, archaeology and decorative arts in period…

València's silk guild opens its 15th-century headquarters, with a tiled floor from 1757 that survives intact, to tell the story of the Silk…

The museum that holds the pardoned ninots, the only figures spared each year from the Fallas flames by public vote.

The museum that tells how València used to live: the huerta, the city, festivals and folk memory, through an award-winning, carefully…

A contemporary urban park opened in 2019 on former railway land, next to the Russafa neighbourhood.

A well-kept garden in the Benicalap district, with ponds, Arab-style fountains and a small waterfall, plus play areas, sports facilities…

A 14-hectare green lung between Sant Marcel·lí and the cemetery: a Mediterranean garden, palm grove, water feature and an olive tree over…

A vast naturalistic park of over 330,000 m² at the western end of the Turia Garden, designed to recreate the old riverside woodland.

A quiet neighbourhood park of 80,000 m² with several historic farmhouses (one has a library), canals, fountains and a small lagoon that…

Built on a former Air Force barracks and opened in 1995, it's one of locals' favourite gardens.

This is Valencia's oldest church, founded around 1238 after the conquest by the Knights Hospitaller of St John.

Beneath an ordinary Carmen house hides a 1937 air-raid shelter built for 400 people, its thick concrete pillars and the original art-deco…

A stone's throw from the Central Market and the Llotja, this hat shop opened in 1820 and has had six generations of the Albero family…

The rooftop of the Saler shopping centre, next to the City of Arts and Sciences: 360° views over the complex and the sea from a free spot…

The Gothic bell tower of Valencia Cathedral: 207 stone steps up a spiral staircase to 50 metres, with the best 360° panorama over the old…

A 1970s building with curved balconies and an oriental air, the kind of architectural whim that looks out of place, and that's exactly why…

The Baroque tower of Santa Catalina rises over the square of the same name, right in the historic centre: a lesser-known lookout than the…

A rock shelter on Cullera Mountain (Muntanya de l'Or) preserving schematic-style cave paintings discovered in 1995, with red figures…

A rock shelter on the right bank of the Río Grande preserving Levantine and Schematic cave paintings, inscribed on the UNESCO World…

Almost everyone stops at the Charcos de Quesa pools without realising that, upstream through the río Grande canyon, hides a shelter with…

Deep in the Serra Calderona, a slender Gothic aqueduct from 1412 crosses the ravine to carry water from the Fuente de la Mina to the monks'…

Fortified manor of the Dukes of Gandia beside the marshland, built around a 14th-century tower amid the farmland.

In the early 20th century a carabineros barracks was raised beside the beach, on the old sandflats of 'Els borrons', to watch over and…

A 14th-century cistern that once supplied the historic centre with water, fed by the Benàger-Faitanar irrigation channel and in use until…

Founded by the Franciscans from 1576 and built between 1617 and 1639, this large complex of around 3,600 m² blends Renaissance and Baroque…

This former convent of Poor Clares, founded in the 16th century under the impulse of the Borja family, preserves a sober church and a…

The water park at the Terra Natura complex: over 40,000 m² laid out in big themed areas with a distinctive jungle feel.

Opened in 1985, this was Spain's first water park, with 150,000 m² of slides and pools along the Serra Gelada ridge and the sea always in…

A Gothic aqueduct from the 13th-14th centuries that carried spring water down to the town.

Next to the Porta Coeli charterhouse stands a slender Gothic aqueduct of twelve pointed arches, built in 1412 to carry water from the Font…

The water park closest to València, in Cullera, with slides, a wave pool and a kids' area. The classic way to cool off on a hot summer day.

One of the big water parks on the Alicante coast, with more than fifteen attractions for all ages.

On the lower slopes of the Mondúver, on the edge of Xeraco, this recreational area beside the Font de l'Ull is the gateway to the town's…

This municipal auditorium occupies a 19th-century flour mill that used water from the irrigation channel to grind grain.

Benidorm's most photographed lookout, on Punta Canfali, atop the rock that splits Levante and Poniente beaches.

A Roman seaside site on the Punta de la Fontana whose highlight is a large fish pond carved into the rock, with basins and channels that…

The oldest surviving barraca in the whole Valencian Community, an 18th-century gem with the same level of heritage protection shared by La…

A little-used ravine south of the village, with prehistoric rock paintings on its stone walls.

Ontinyent's old quarter, declared a historic-artistic site in 1974, is a maze of Arab-era alleys on a hilltop.

Cullera's oldest quarter: a maze of steep lanes and whitewashed houses climbing the hill below the castle.

A maze of cobbled alleys, whitewashed houses and arches climbing up the rock, with an Arab-origin layout declared a Historic-Artistic Site.

Alicante's oldest quarter, a maze of steep little lanes with whitewashed houses, flower pots and bursts of colour at the foot of the…

Levantine Gothic from the 13th to 15th century, with two carved doorways: the Apostles' Doorway and the Virgins' Doorway.

Alicante's oldest church, built between the 14th and 16th centuries over a former mosque. It has a Baroque façade and a Gothic interior.

A medieval mountain village with an old town of steep, cobbled alleys climbing up the rock.

A small horseshoe-shaped cove, almost a natural pool, named for the whitish colour of its cliff rocks.

Small rock-and-sand cove at Cabo de las Huertas, minutes from the centre yet wild in feel.

A sand-and-rock cove in the north of the town, in the Rincón de Loix area at the foot of Serra Gelada.

A cove of white pebbles and turquoise water between cliffs and pine woods, voted best beach in the Comunitat Valenciana by National…

The only true rocky cove in the whole province of Valencia, a little fine-sand cove wedged between cliffs at the foot of Cullera's…

A pebble cove with see-through water that looks like a Greek island, presided over by old white-fronted fishermen's houses and the famous…

A small cove of sand and rocks about 60 metres long, hidden at the northern end of Benidorm beside Rincón de Loix and at the foot of Serra…

A sheltered cove about 200 metres long south of Torrevieja, ringed by vegetated dunes and a small palm grove, with clean, crystal-clear…

A virgin cove of pebbles and rock tucked on the north face of Cap Prim, reachable only on foot — which is why it's almost always yours even…

A cobbled Way of the Cross that starts behind the Municipal Market in the old Barri del Pou and climbs to the castle and the Virgin's…

At 72 metres it is the tallest bell tower in the Valencian Community and the second tallest in Spain, crowning the archpriestal church of…

This Baroque gem (1725-1749) adjoining the church of Sant Roc has an unusual Greek-cross plan and houses the venerated image of the Holy…

Founded by King Jaume I, the Hospital Major has a façade that fuses late Gothic with early Renaissance, a record of its different building…

A small chapel in the beach area that serves residents and summer visitors, with its own sacristy and masses during the season.

Inside the 13th-century Templar fortress, one of only three papal seats in history, the castle's Gothic chapel survives in the north wing…

A 16th-century charterhouse listed as a Site of Cultural Interest, with a blue-domed Baroque church, cloisters and cells that still carry…

A Carthusian monastery founded in 1272 in the green Lullén valley, with four cloisters still home to monks.

Founded in 1272 by Bishop Andreu d'Albalat, this is the first Carthusian monastery of the Kingdom of Valencia and a remarkable complex set…

Stately building inaugurated in 1925 facing the Explanada, designed by Alicante architect Juan Vidal Ramos for textile magnate Enrique…

A neoclassical building from 1793, erected with public funds under Carlos IV as one of the area's earliest public schools.

One of the most curious facades in the old town, entirely clad in seashells.

A 17th-century manor house on Plaza de la Constitución, in the old centre of Alboraya.

A house bought in 1740 by the Silk Weavers' Guild as its headquarters, in a dead-end Moorish alley within the Barrio de la Villa, a…

On the Plaça d'Alexandre VI stands the birthplace of Roderic de Borja, born around 1431 and the future Pope Alexander VI, the second…

A noble house raised in the 17th century by the Orduña family, a lineage of Basque origin in the service of the lords of Guadalest, after…

The former pleasure house of the noble Berenguer family, tied to the lineage that gave the town its name.

Oliva's old town barely makes it into guidebooks, but it has cobbled lanes, manor houses and an old Moorish quarter carved into the rock.

One of Anna's three waterfalls and one of the most striking points on the route, with a drop that stops everyone who passes.

A maze of narrow streets and stately houses built from golden tosca stone that keeps the medieval feel of the old walled town.

Islamic-origin fortress perched on a hill north of Gandia, regarded as the city's birthplace and the chief stronghold of La Safor's…

A horseshoe-shaped 1739 coastal fort watching over the Granadella cove from above, declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1996.

The fortress crowning Morella's rocky outcrop, perched on the stone with views that sweep across the whole Els Ports region.

A fortress built by the Templars between 1294 and 1307 on a rocky headland jutting into the sea.

Fortress built on Mount Tossal during the Peninsular War (designed in 1809 and finished around 1813) to strengthen Alicante's defences…

A 16th-century Renaissance fortress raised by the Count of Oliva atop a limestone hill in the middle of town, with two circular towers and…

The Castle of Xàtiva is not one fortress but two: the Ibero-Roman Castell Menor and the medieval Castell Major, on the mountain above town.

A fortress of Muslim origin on a rocky crag above the village and the bend of the River Turia.

A castle of Moorish origin on Les Raboses hill, with views over the town, the mouth of the Júcar and the Mediterranean.

An old 11th-century Muslim fortress raised on the Peñón de la Alcalá, beside the grounds of the Casa Orduña and distinct from the Castillo…

The ruins of a Christian castle raised over a Muslim fortress and, before that, a Bronze Age settlement, on a hill above the village.

A huge fortified complex of Iberian and Roman origin stretching along a hilltop above the old town, with a Roman theatre at its foot.

An 11th-century fortress of Muslim origin that crowns the rocky outcrop at the highest point of the village, perched at around 587 m.

A medieval fortress on Mount Benacantil, 166 metres above the sea, with views over the city, the port and the Mediterranean.

A Moorish-era castle (8th-11th centuries) on a ridge above 500 metres, its great tower and crenellated wall still standing.

On the hill overlooking the town stand the ruins of the castle where Jaume I set up his base for the conquest of València after the 1237…

A fortress of Moorish origin stands on the old-town ridge, with surviving walls and a 15th-century keep over 23 metres tall that now has…

An imposing 17th-century snow well (cava) deep in the Serra de Mariola, within Bocairent's boundary very close to the limits with Alfafara…

A cylindrical snow well dug into the ground, where ice was stored for centuries to supply the surrounding region.

A small, unusual cemetery set at the very top of the crag, beside the keep and walls of the Castillo de San José.

Hardly anyone climbs up here, yet this is the first visitable Jewish cemetery in Spain: a medieval necropolis of graves cut into the living…

The Casino de l'Amistat was raised by community initiative, with nearly 400 families taking part, and opened on 27 August 1911 as the home…

Just outside El Palmar, this Albufera Natural Park centre opens onto a strictly protected marshland reserve, with a hide and a tower for…

A striking neo-Mudéjar mansion built in 1925 for the Mompó family, with touches of Valencian modernisme.

A natural pool of crystal-clear, turquoise water deep in the Turia canyon, wedged between the vertical walls of the Los Calderones area.

A pool of cool green water tucked into the Río Sot canyon, reached by a flat riverside path that weaves past reed beds and little wooden…

A village perched beneath an Arab castle and surrounded by the canyon of the river Turia.

This underground cistern, dated by local tradition between the 8th and 10th centuries, is one of the oldest monuments in Quart de Poblet…

A Valencian Gothic church raised in the late 14th century, with the Santa María doorway and the Renaissance Apostles' doorway.

Known as la Seu, this collegiate church is Gandia's main temple and a gem of Valencian Gothic raised between the 14th and 16th centuries.

A Renaissance and Baroque church known as La Seu, raised over a former mosque and still unfinished after centuries of work.

One of the most venerable fishermen's communities of l'Albufera, officially constituted in 1857 on a far older fishing tradition that goes…

Alicante's co-cathedral is one of the masterpieces of Herrerian Renaissance architecture in the Valencian Community, built between 1616 and…

A monumental complex of the 16th-18th centuries beside the Santa María bridge, on the old road to Biar or Castile.

A 13th-century Franciscan convent of plain, austere Gothic style beside the path up to the castle, visited today on the same ticket.

Founded in 1272, this Franciscan friary preserves its oldest cloister (late 13th century), a single-nave Gothic church and the famous…

A living dune ridge running parallel to the sea, from Puerto Siles to the boundary with Sagunt, along roughly 1,200 metres of Racó de Mar…

An eremitical retreat in a cave on the north face of the Rodeno de Santa Inés, linked to the Porta Coeli Charterhouse and to the memory of…

Another set of window-caves carved into the rock of Bocairent's old quarter, at the head of the River Clariano, less famous than the…

Bocairent's most distinctive sight: a cluster of around 50 man-made window-caves carved into the sheer rock face of the ravine, set across…

A natural cave carved into Cullera's cape where legend says the Turkish corsair Dragut hid his treasure, today the only piracy museum on…

Beneath the old town, an underground maze of about 22 caves carved out in Moorish times served as homes, granaries, silos and wine cellars.

A breakwater over 1,600 metres long turned into a wooden promenade that reaches out to sea as far as the Torrevieja lighthouse.

Behind the sand of Xeraco beach survives a protected dune cord of great ecological value, part of the 'Dunes de la Safor' Site of Community…

A natural crack among the cobbled streets of Peníscola's old town where the sea forces its way in; on stormy days it roars and sends water…

This slender whitewashed bell tower, rising free-standing on a rocky crag, is the most iconic image of Guadalest and of the whole Costa…

A castle-palace of medieval origin (15th century) that Archbishop Saint Juan de Ribera acquired around 1600 and turned into a manor-palace…

A tiny village perched 500 metres up, reached through a tunnel carved into the rock and topped by a castle overlooking the valley.

Lit in 1904, this is the most inland lighthouse in the whole Valencia region: it rises among orange groves some 300 metres from the sea, on…

The largest hedge maze in the Valencian Community, beside the Anna lake: about 2 kilometres of paths winding through more than 4,000…

A piece of hydraulic heritage made up of an old traditional flour mill and a "vapor", one of the area's first wells using steam machinery…

A pumping station of Canet's irrigation community, which grew out of the local Agricultural Syndicate set up in 1916 to extract and…

Locals just call it 'the Castle': this manor-house palace is part of Canet's historic heritage and overlooks the old quarter, beside the…

While everyone queues for the bell tower, locals slip off to the little Sant Gregori square to look at the Penyó de l'Alcalà: a rock needle…

A baroque tiled fountain on Plaza Francisco Aleix, set in the village's first garden.

A striking 1931 villa known for its blue façade and its garden of fruit trees, quite unlike the houses of central Alboraya.

A row of eleven cylindrical stone windmills raised on the Plana del Montgó and built between the 14th and 18th centuries; the oldest,…

The oldest reservoir in the Turia basin (1915), wedged into the Tromagal gorge inside the Valencian Community's first geological natural…

A reservoir on the Escalona river near Navarrés, with a quiet setting for a walk and views over the water.

A reservoir of almost unreal turquoise that winds below the village among the mountains, with the old town perched above the water.

This is El Palmar's jetty, a quiet spot among the canals where traditional lateen-sail boats set off across the Albufera lagoon.

A historic complex of salt-drying yards, docks and wooden loading piers built in the late 18th century to gather and ship the salt from the…

A small Baroque hermitage built between 1708 and 1714 beside the castle, with a square bell tower, military motifs and Philip V's coat of…

A small rectangular-plan hermitage built in 1887 and dedicated to Our Lady of La Salette, who according to tradition appeared to two…

A small temple built in the 17th century on the outskirts of Aldaia, one of the town's oldest historic hermitages.

A Baroque hermitage from the early 17th century, tied to the Brotherhood of the Most Pure Blood, already established here by 1607.

This small hermitage perches on the clifftop above Poniente beach, offering one of the most beautiful Mediterranean panoramas in Benidorm.

In the heart of the farmland of the Sanz district stands this rural hermitage, documented since 1740, when Tomás Sanz had it built to serve…

A simple farmland hermitage built between 1881 and 1883 and blessed in 1884, dedicated to the patron San Cristóbal, whose image legend ties…

Built in 1662, this simple Baroque hermitage with a single nave, barrel vault and round-arched openings is the sole survivor of the many…

A simple 1894 hermitage with a white façade and gabled roof, sitting atop a calvary completed in 1893.

A small chapel in the Las Peñas quarter that preserves an exceptional Mudéjar coffered ceiling resting on octagonal Gothic pillars,…

Built around the 16th century, this simple hermitage is one of four that encircle Bocairent forming a symbolic cross around the old town.

Regarded as the oldest hermitage in the Camp de Morvedre, it dates back to the Reconquista.

This late-17th-century hermitage (built around 1666-1702) crowns a hilltop and offers the finest panoramic views over Ontinyent and the…

A 15th-century hermitage, one of the four outlying hermitages that, together with the town, trace a cross across the land.

A former 13th-century Arab mosque, this was Bocairent's first Christian church and still keeps a belfry with a Gothic stone-and-mortar…

A small Baroque hermitage built in 1631 to commemorate the 1237 Battle of El Puig and the legendary intervention of Saint George on behalf…

A small Baroque chapel from the late 18th century, built by the city's carpenters' guild, with a white façade that stands out at dusk.

A secluded rural hermitage surrounded by pine woods in the Torremiró area, with views that on clear days reach the Mediterranean.

A modest hermitage dedicated to the Archangel Saint Michael, one of Aldaia's two chapels listed as a Local Heritage Asset.

Built around 1310-1320 beside an old mill, this hermitage is tied to the legend of Saint Onuphrius appearing to a miller, who according to…

A small chapel on a rise beside the Patio de los Silos, with an early shrine that may date back to the 16th century.

Founded in the 15th century, this hermitage crowns a pine-clad hill and preserves part of its original fabric in the Communion Chapel,…

Small hermitage on a hilltop, one of the best preserved in Gandia and a natural viewpoint over the city and its fertile plain.

A Gothic chapel linked to the Borja family, built in the 16th century atop Santa Anna hill overlooking Xàtiva, its rib vaults' keystones…

Gothic in origin and dated to 1364, this hermitage crowns a hill about a kilometre from the village and shelters Chulilla's patron saint.

A small 18th-century hermitage crowning the Santa Bárbara hill, one of the two hills inside the town centre, dedicated to the patron saint…

A rural hermitage set among the fields in the partida de Saboya, one of Alboraya's historic chapels.

A small hermitage set high in the Serra de Mariola above Bocairent, amid pine woods and farmland.

Crowning the highest hill beside the town, this simple 15th-16th-century hermitage is the only one of Xàbia's ancient chapels still in…

A hermitage dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, part of a picturesque ensemble of vernacular huerta architecture alongside an old…

On a small wooded rise at the entrance to the town stands this elegant neoclassical hermitage, first built in 1770 and rebuilt in 1856.

A small hermitage out in the huerta of the Milagro (Miracle) district, linked to the old Vilanova family estate and built in 1876.

A small neo-Gothic hermitage beside the mouth of the Carraixet ravine, facing the Mediterranean, built to commemorate the Miracle of the…

One of the oldest buildings in Xàbia, this little hermitage belongs to the so-called 'Reconquest hermitages' (15th-16th centuries), raised…

This 19th-century chapel in the heart of the old town is dedicated to the Santísimo Cristo de la Agonía, patron of Xeraco.

It was built from 1749 after the earthquake that damaged the parish church in Anna, when townsfolk sought safety in the upper part of the…

An 18th-century hermitage on the hill east of town, reached by climbing the bends of the Calvario path.

This 16th-century Gothic hermitage crowns a steep slope right beside the Covetes dels Moros, the famous cliff-carved caves.

A small seaside hermitage in Neo-Gothic style, built in 1901 on the shore where tradition places the 1348 miracle of the fishes.

A small 18th-century hermitage dedicated to the two Saint Anthonys, built so that locals could keep up their devotions even on rainy days.

A hermitage of medieval origin (13th century) enlarged in the 17th, dedicated to the Saints of the Stone, Abdón and Sennen, protectors of…

The oldest parish church in Burjassot, raised from 1767 and opened for worship in 1780 on Saint Michael's day.

It was built in 1265 over the remains of a Visigothic cathedral and is one of the oldest churches in the former Kingdom of Valencia, as…

A Gothic-Cistercian church from the second half of the 14th century, the sole vestige of the vanished Franciscan convent founded by Jaume…

One of Xàtiva's oldest churches, raised in the 14th century in the former market quarter in conquest-Gothic style, with a nave of diaphragm…

Raised on the foundations of a former mosque that was turned into a Christian temple when the parish was founded in 1535, the present…

A Gothic church built on the foundations of the old Moorish castle.

Built largely through the 18th century (1705-1787) over an earlier Gothic church, it is one of the finest examples of Valencian…

The Dominican convent was founded in the late 13th century with the favour of the Crown of Aragon, especially James II.

A convent founded in 1595 with nuns who came from Mirambel, its church built between 1701 and 1708 in a Baroque key.

Aldaia's foremost monument, built between the late 15th and early 16th centuries over a Gothic 'reconquest' structure still visible in the…

Quart de Poblet's parish church was rebuilt in Baroque style in the late 17th century, with works documented around 1691-1693.

This is Oliva's oldest religious building and it guards the oldest Marian image in the Valencian Community, dated to between the late 12th…

An artificial lake dug in the early 1970s within the Devesa for a marina that was never built; after being abandoned it has re-wilded into…

A life-size bronze of the poet Vicent Andrés Estellés, a distinguished son of Burjassot and renewer of Valencian poetry, seated on a bench…

Alicante's best-known promenade, a palm-lined boulevard by the harbour paved with nearly seven million tricolour marble tiles that ripple…

A circular lighthouse from 1858 on Cullera's cape, ringed by coves and pine woods above the sea.

Built in the late 19th century atop the rocky headland, this lighthouse crowns a well-photographed viewpoint in the village.

A monumental neoclassical fountain built between 1788 and 1804 beside the church of Sant Pere, an emblem of the "city of a thousand…

A natural spring beside the Pego-Oliva marsh whose slightly sulphurous waters stay at a mild 21–24 °C for most of the year.

At Calle Santíssima 15 an in-situ Roman pottery kiln from the 1st century AD survives, part of a workshop that made amphorae, common…

A historic late-16th-century fountain, known as the Fountain of the 24 Spouts, commissioned by Magdalena de Borja, Marchioness of Navarrés.

A small natural spot in the municipality of Anna, near the border with Enguera, where a lake of crystal-clear, very cold water is hemmed in…

A crystal-clear spring on the outskirts of Anna that feeds the nearby Gorgo Catalán, a small wooded lagoon.

This octagonal brick industrial chimney from the mid-20th century is the only surviving trace of Turégano, a chemicals factory set up in…

A deep, crystal-clear pool beside the Fuente Negra spring, ringed by trees, with a platform for diving in, just outside the village.

A gorge of waterfalls and natural pools wedged between rock walls, part of the three-waterfalls route in Anna.

A natural pool and small waterfall in the gorge of the Anna river, the first major stop on the popular Three Waterfalls Route.

The classical port of Saguntum, beside the Marjal dels Moros and about 6 km from the city, active from the late 6th century BC into late…

The only surviving blast furnace of the old Puerto de Sagunto steelworks, a hulk about 64 metres tall raised in 1922 and rebuilt from its…

Built on the site of the former mosque, this Gothic-Renaissance church is Ontinyent's foremost monument and a listed Asset of Cultural…

It is one of the oldest churches in the Valencian diocese, built in the 13th century after the conquest by Jaume I on the remains of an…

A parish church of medieval origin and Baroque appearance, presiding over Plaza de la Constitución in the old quarter.

Heir to the old college and university founded by Saint Francis Borgia in the 16th century, this church preserves the memory of the city's…

A 16th-century parish church that presides over the old quarter, known for the Baroque murals on its vaults.

A church raised in 1614 over a medieval hermitage and later reworked with a marked 18th-century neoclassical character.

Located in Orihuela, within Alicante province, this church is a 15th-to-16th-century Gothic gem with a splendid tower offering one of the…

Built in 1929 in Neo-Baroque style, this church in Puerto de Sagunto was modelled on the Basilica of Begoña in Bilbao, a nod to the Basque…

An 18th-century Baroque parish church, rebuilt after the Civil War: plain and bright, at the top of the village.

An 18th-century neoclassical church with a single barrel-vaulted nave, presiding over the village's historic centre.

The 'parish of the sea', in the harbour's fishing quarter, is one of Spain's most striking modern churches.

A Gothic-style church built over a former medieval mosque, with a slender 18th-century bell tower rising among the houses.

Beyond the historic churches, this 1970s temple stands out for its striking Brutalist architecture, featured in catalogues of modern…

Founded in 1772 by the Bishop of Orihuela José Tormo as the parish of La Mata's tower and salt administration, this is one of the oldest…

It originates in the oratory of the Society of Jesus founded in 1703, attached to the Jesuit college that operated until the order's…

Benidorm's most emblematic church crowns the Canfali hill at the top of the old town, beside the famous Balcón del Mediterráneo viewpoint.

Built between the 16th and 18th centuries over a 14th-century hermitage, it was funded by the prosperous wool-cloth makers' guild of the…

The oldest of Requena's churches, built as a Gothic temple in the 15th century.

An 18th-century Baroque church (1747-1762) with a plain salmon-coloured façade and a figure of Sant Pere above the doorway, in the town's…

The Royal Monastery of Santa Clara is one of Gandia's oldest convent ensembles, linked since the Middle Ages to the Poor Clares and the…

A Flamboyant Gothic doorway carved in stone, in the Barrio de la Villa old quarter.

An 18th-century Baroque church in the nearby town of Sant Joan d'Alacant, renowned for its extraordinary cycle of mural paintings.

This is Peníscola's parish church, known for centuries as the church of the Virgen del Socorro.

This Gothic-Renaissance church stands over Sagunto's old Jewish quarter, and its walls hold the remains of the Temple of Diana, an Iberian…

Linked to a Carmelite convent of medieval origin, this Gothic-Baroque church preserves the Gothic chapel of the Virgen de la Soterraña and…

The village parish church, built in 1769, marks the centre of El Palmar and keeps the devotion to the Cristo de la Salud, the focus of the…

Begun in 1380 over a former hermitage to Santa Bárbara and completed in 1533, El Salvador was named the principal church of La Villa in…

A church rebuilt in the 18th century, neoclassical in structure with rococo ornament, on the Plaza de la Iglesia.

Begun in the mid-16th century and greatly enlarged in the 18th, this is a basilica-plan church with side chapels set between buttresses and…

Cullera's mother church, built in 1692 over a 13th-14th century Gothic temple, of which one chapel still survives beneath the bell tower.

A Valencian Baroque church rebuilt in the 18th century over the foundations of a former mosque, at the heart of Navarrés's old Moorish…

A neoclassical church begun in the late 18th century and completed around 1800 to a design by master builder Francisco Pechuán.

Canet's main church was built between 1747 and 1762 on the site of an earlier temple already documented in 1420.

A 15th-century Gothic church that looks like a fortress, built in local tosca stone with battlements, machicolations and arrow slits to…

An uninhabited rocky islet off the bay, about 2.5 nautical miles from shore, also known as the Island of the Journalists.

Small island off the Alicante coast, the only inhabited one in the Valencian Community and Spain's first marine reserve (1986).

A historic garden of around 18,000 m², landscaped in the early 17th century by Juan de Ribera, wrapping around the castle-college and…

A small, quiet garden at the foot of the Convent de Sant Francesc that pays tribute to the writers linked to Morella, with verses dedicated…

A maze of cobbled alleyways and stone houses preserves the layout of the old medieval Jewish quarter, just steps from the Roman Theatre.

A 16th-century former sugar mill, a reminder of the days when Oliva processed sugar cane, today a landmark of the town's industrial…

A brackish transitional lagoon linked to the sea just south of the Júcar mouth, nicknamed the "mini Albufera" for its rich biodiversity and…

The tiger-nut (chufa) fields around the town are the source of Alboraya's horchata and form a protected landscape of irrigation channels,…

An underground barrel-vaulted cistern built between 1885 and 1888 to collect water from local springs, now a small local museum.

A municipal natural site in the gorge the river Albaida carves through the mountains, with a cave once home to Neanderthals and a reference…

A large white cross built in 1961 on the slopes of the Serra Gelada Natural Park, above the far end of Levante beach.

A 10 km strip of Mediterranean forest between the Albufera and the sea, with pine woods, dunes and interdune marshes separating the lake…

At the southern tip of Xeraco beach, where the Riu Vaca meets the sea, the parasols end and the dunes, marsh and a wooden bird hide begin.

A surviving stretch of the wall that once enclosed the old town, raised in the 14th century to fortify the village during the War of the…

An old excavated silo for storing grain, of Arab origin, recalling Navarrés' Andalusi past.

A natural turquoise lake fed by underground springs and ringed by willows and poplars, just steps from the village.

A fine-sand lagoon fed by freshwater springs —Fuente del Pescao, Fuente Loca, Fuente Negra and Fuente de los Pastores— ringed by pine woods…

Anna's old communal washhouse, on Plaza de la Alameda, with a baroque balustrade and water from the Albufera tumbling in a cascade into its…

At the entrance to the village, beside the CV-310 road arriving from València, stands this public washhouse built in 1938: a long…

Built around 1790, this water divider splits the flow of the Quart irrigation channel into two arms —one for Quart and one for Benàger— and…

A tropical, almost Balinese-looking spot where two waterfalls tumble into turquoise pools on walls covered in moss and plants.

Archaeological site of the ancient Ibero-Roman city of Lucentum, on a low rise by the sea at La Albufereta, about 3.5 km from the centre.

Contemporary-art museum beside the Santa María basilica, built around the Casa de la Asegurada (1685), the city's oldest public building…

An archaeology museum housed in the old Almodí and former courthouse, built against the medieval wall at the foot of the Santa María…

A former coastal wetland between the town centre and the beach, halfway between Valencia and Sagunt, today largely turned over to market…

Coastal wetland in the municipality's north-east, part of the Marjal de la Safor and the Natura 2000 network, with some 450 ha of reedbeds,…

A well-preserved wetland in the Valencian Community, a mosaic of freshwater and reedbeds where herons, purple swamphens and the rare…

A protected wetland beside the South Beach, fed by underground springs called 'ullals' that surface and flood the low-lying ground.

A coastal wetland of around 300 hectares between Sagunto and Puçol, with lagoons, salt marshes and former rice fields protected as a…

Provincial archaeology museum housed in the former San Juan de Dios hospital (1926-1929), designed by architect Juan Vidal Ramos.

An old dungeon carved into the rock beneath the Town Hall in the upper village, originally a water cistern and later the lordship's prison.

Housed in an early-20th-century farmhouse that once worked as an olive mill and oil factory, this small museum holds around 150 pieces: a…

A modernist market designed by Valencian architect Luis Ferreres Soler and built between 1899 and 1903, with four independent pavilions…

Large covered food market opened in 1921, designed by architect Enrique Sánchez Sedeño in an eclectic style with Valencian Art Nouveau…

A municipal market built in 1946 in the heart of the old town on the grounds of the former Discalced Augustinian convent, with a striking…

A market in the old town on Plaça Baltasar Mallent, on land ceded to the municipality in 1736 by the priest the square is named after.

At the southern tip of Xeraco beach, where the Vaca river meets the sea in the Goleta area, a wooden platform overlooks the frontier…

A natural balcony leaning over the Turia canyon, directly above the Charco Azul, looking down on the river boxed between the cliffs.

A viewpoint beside the Gola del Pujol, one of the three channels linking l'Albufera to the Mediterranean, famous for some of the finest…

The highest square in the village juts out like a natural balcony over the turquoise reservoir and the mountains of the Marina Baixa.

Cap de la Nau is the easternmost point of the Valencian Community and the closest to Ibiza, crowned by an octagonal lighthouse that entered…

Sheer 160-metre cliffs crowned by an 1855 lighthouse and several viewpoints leaning out over the Mediterranean, with the Montgó behind and…

A viewpoint at over 600 metres inside Sierra Calderona Natural Park, reachable by car or on foot.

A viewpoint atop the Raval Morisc, the former Moorish quarter outside the walls, reached through steep lanes such as the picturesque Calle…

This is a viewpoint on the Sierra Calderona, atop the Rebalsadors peak, with 360-degree views over the natural park and the sea beyond.

Natural balconies dotted around the village, such as the Mirador de la Peñeta or the Mirador de las Cuevas, look out over the Turia canyon…

A privately owned water mill documented since 1415 and kept in perfect condition even though it stopped grinding in 1974.

This 15th-to-17th-century monastery on the outskirts of Alicante guards the relic of the Holy Face, a cloth said by tradition to have wiped…

A monastery founded in 1388 a few kilometres from Gandia, in the municipality of Alfauir.

Carved directly into the rock in 1556 by Father Melchor Hierro to shelter nuns who had arrived from Valencia, this tiny underground…

At 841 metres, the Mondúver is the roof of La Safor and a natural balcony commanding the coast from Gandia to Cullera.

A large monument some 18 metres tall on Avenida del Arrabal, by architect Ricardo Rosso and sculptor Esteve Edo, whose first phase was…

Striking circular building of great ethnological value beside the Marxuquera bridge at the foot of the Serra Falconera, of uncertain date…

Morella rises on a hill, ringed by a wall with towers and crowned by a castle.

Fine-arts museum set inside the Palace of the Count of Lumiares, an 18th-century gem in the old town.

A marine and exotic wildlife park of over 60,000 m² devoted to conserving species, many of them threatened.

A small hillock northeast of El Puig towards Puçol, still within El Puig's municipal boundary, very easy to reach and offering wide…

A hillock barely 27 metres high, topped by a 14th-century hermitage that rises like an island amid l'Albufera's sea of rice paddies.

The first museum in Spain devoted to the hand fan, set inside the Casa de la Llotgeta, a Renaissance manor house from the late 16th and…

Morella's walled enclosure, built mostly in the 14th century, rings the whole town with several towers and gateways that preserve its…

The walled belt wrapping the old town was ordered by Philip II and designed by the Italian military engineer Giovanni Battista (Juan…

Housed in the Casa del Mestre Peña, a 14th-15th-century building in the heart of the Jewish quarter, it gathers Iberian and Roman finds…

A museum beside the Cuesta del Ángel, in the heart of the historic quarter, gathering a donation by collector Florencio de la Fuente with…

A museum showing the handcrafted work of Antonio Marco: meticulous dolls' houses, a monumental nativity scene and antique toys, all built…

Set up in several rooms of the Royal Monastery of Santa María, it was the first printing museum in Spain and, according to its operators,…

Guadalest has more museums per resident than any other village in Spain, and this one works at the smallest scale of all: a bullring carved…

A museum devoted entirely to salt and pepper shakers, gathering over 20,000 original pieces from around the world, with examples ranging…

An ethnological museum opened in 1995 devoted to Torrevieja's maritime and salt heritage.

Set in the stately Palacio del Cid, this museum traces the history of the wine that made the Requena-Utiel region famous, through old…

A small museum that traces the daily life of the Albufera's fishermen and rice farmers, with old tools, nets and everyday objects from the…

A free-entry museum recreating the inside of a typical 18th-century working house of the area, with its pantry, kitchen, bread oven,…

Set in the former Royal Convent of El Carmen, founded in the 13th century and taken into municipal hands after the 1836 disentailment.

A sacred-art collection housed in the sacristy and upper rooms of the parish church, gathering liturgical objects used in worship…

In Torrevieja's port you can step inside the S-61 Delfín, the only Spanish Navy submarine turned into a museum ship, around 58 metres long,…

A restored manor house in the old town that walks you through Oliva's history from prehistory to the 16th century, with pieces from the…

Archaeological museum housed in the old Hospital de Sant Marc, a building founded in the 14th century by Alfons el Vell, first Duke of…

Xàbia's municipal archaeology and ethnography museum, housed in the 17th-century Renaissance palace of Antoni Banyuls in the old town.

Traces the long history of the Bocairent area, from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, with finds from local sites such as the Cova…

A municipal museum of temporary exhibitions opened in 2015, in the historic heart of Benidorm in the house that once held the old town…

An 18th-century manor on Calle Mayor that was the home of the Enlightenment scholar Gregorio Mayans i Siscar, now a branch of Valencia's…

An ethnographic museum that recreates the traditional trades and everyday life of Bocairent, a town with a long textile and blanket-making…

Housed in the Casa de l'Ensenyança, a classicist building of the mid-18th century, it holds one of the largest public painting collections…

A curious museum in the cloister of the Franciscan La Concepción school, with a botanical garden of Spanish, African and American species.

Xàtiva's city museum occupies the Almodí, the old grain exchange built in the mid-16th century, with an original Gothic façade and a…

Museum of horchata and tiger nut (chufa) housed in El Machistre, a traditional farmhouse surrounded by the Alboraya huerta.

Set in the Baluarte del Príncipe, in the building of the former schools, this small museum gathers Peníscola's seafaring history in three…

A museum housed in the former church of Sant Nicolau, devoted to the Festes Sexennals that every six years fill Morella's streets with…

Opened in 2022 in the former Manuel Revert textile factory beside the Clariano river, it recalls how the Ontinyent-Alcoi-Bocairent triangle…

Set in a group of noble houses on Calle Tamarit (15th–18th c.), saved from demolition in 1985, sharing its building with the Central…

Interactive museum opened in 2008 that unpacks Gandia's Fallas: how the monuments are built, the gunpowder, the fire and the festival…

Opened in 2001 at the headquarters of the Societat de Festers, it gathers the heritage of Ontinyent's Moors and Christians: ceremonial…

Devoted to Bocairent's Moors and Christians festival in honour of Sant Blai, one of the oldest still celebrated.

A palaeontology museum in the old town, next to Sant Miquel church, devoted to the dinosaurs unearthed across the Els Ports region.

Known as the 'little Valencian Alhambra', this palace-castle sits on the site of the old Moorish fortress, with Arab courtyards and rooms…

A 15th-century Gothic palace built over the former Islamic fortress, declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1982.

A 15th-18th century building next to the porxets of the Plaça Major, today the seat of Ontinyent's Town Hall.

The Gothic palace of the Borja (Borgia) family holds over 500 years of history, with rooms such as the Hall of Crowns and the Golden…

The Borja Ducal Palace houses one of Gandia's most beautiful chapels, linked to Saint Francis Borgia, the fourth duke and later superior…

A protected natural area declared in 2007 covering some 538 hectares of the Turia river gorges, where the water has carved a spectacular…

A roughly 17-hectare natural area at the northern end of La Mata beach, one of the last remnants of the dune system that once covered this…

Municipal nature reserve of some 560 ha in Gandia's mountains, protected by the Generalitat since 2004, with trails, pinewoods and an…

At the foot of the castle, these gardens sit on the defensive bastions raised in the 16th century to fend off Barbary pirate raids.

Large seafront urban park of about 19 hectares at the southern edge of the city, with more than 7,000 palm trees.

A large neoclassical linear park designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, separating the old town from the modern city.

One of Burjassot's most ecologically valuable spaces, a Mediterranean pine wood of around 33,000 m² that preserves original native…

Terraced park on the slope of Mount Benacantil, right below Santa Bárbara castle.

A former 19th-century farm and agronomy station turned into a large public park in Burjassot, with the Casa de la Cultura, old train…

A protected wetland of around 1,250 ha between Oliva and Pego, with exceptionally clean waters.

Over 7,700 protected hectares with 12 km of unspoilt coastline, hidden coves, cliffs and the Badum watchtower gazing over the…

A marine-and-land natural park stretching between Benidorm, l'Alfàs del Pi and Altea, protected since 2005 as the first marine-terrestrial…

One of Torrevieja's best-loved urban parks, with a large central lake whose outline reproduces the map of Europe as a symbol of union…

The largest lake in Spain, ringed by rice paddies and the pine woods of the Devesa del Saler, where paella was invented.

The largest natural park in the Valencian Community (over 31,000 ha), shared by Requena, Venta del Moro and Villargordo del Cabriel.

A 3,743-hectare natural park with two large salt lagoons: the Torrevieja one, an astonishing pink colour caused by the microscopic alga…

A metropolitan green corridor that follows the living Turia river upstream of the city, with nearly 5,000 hectares of pine woods, riverside…

The water park closest to València, right next to the Bonaire shopping centre in Aldaia, about 20 minutes from the city centre.

This is the oldest and most important church in Torrevieja, raised facing the sea on the Plaza de la Constitución.

Set in the heart of the historic San Roque district, one of Torrevieja's most characterful old seafaring neighborhoods, this parish is the…

This is the only church in the fishing village of El Palmar and the only one in the entire Valencia diocese dedicated to the Christ Child…

Affectionately known as the "Cathedral of the Sea", this parish began as a humble fishermen's chapel whose first stone was laid in 1921 in…

An underground complex of grain silos dug from 1573 to store the wheat that supplied the city of Valencia, declared a National…

A large, oddly shaped boulder tied to local legend: Samson is said to have wagered he could hurl it with a single finger from Navarrés…

A walled town on a rocky outcrop surrounded by the sea, crowned by the Templar castle where Pope Luna lived.

Rock shelters with Levantine cave art, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, at the Morella la Vella farmstead about 6 km from the…

One of Morella's most photogenic squares, at the end of Carrer Blasco de Alagón and beside the gate of the same name, with white façades…

Opened in 1843, this is the oldest bullring in the Valencian Community, carved entirely out of the living rock of a small hill.

One of the most charming squares in the old town, presided over by the Font de la Trinitat, a Gothic fountain of 1403 reckoned the oldest…

The heart of public life since the 16th century, it sits at the foot of the wall overlooking the Sant Jaume-Almaig ravine.

A long, semi-wild stretch of around 3.2 kilometres at the northern end of Sagunto's coast, mixing sand and gravel beside dunes with…

Virgin beach north of the urban promenade, a rarity on the Valencian coast for keeping its dune system almost intact with no buildings…

A golden-sand beach at the southern end of Oliva's coast, next to the mouth of the Bullent river and the Pego-Oliva marsh.

A beach of fine golden sand on Sagunto's coast, backed by a belt of natural dunes with native flora.

A short walk from the packed promenade of Platja Nord, this three-kilometre virgin beach hides behind a cordon of living dunes with not a…

A small urban beach about 120 metres long tucked between the two big ones, at the foot of Canfali hill beside the old town.

One of the few fine-sand beaches in the Serra d'Irta Natural Park, on the unspoilt coast south of Peníscola.

A short, low-key stretch of sand south of Gandía, cut off from the world by a cordon of low dunes with Mediterranean vegetation and backed…

The only undeveloped beach on Alboraya's coast, at its northern end, between the mouth of the Carraixet ravine and the Patacona.

The central square and social heart of Chulilla, presided over by the town hall and tourist office, with its fountain, bars and shops.

The heart and original core of El Palmar, right beside the church, where the village's first barracas were built.

A small single-arch ashlar stone bridge that for centuries carried the road across the Vera irrigation channel between Alboraya and the…

This 16th-century stone bridge, built around 1520 over the Clariano ravine, is Ontinyent's best-known landmark.

Nicknamed Valencia's 'little Venice', this marina neighbourhood has navigable canals between brightly painted houses in the Burano style,…

A narrow gateway cut into the living rock and fortified in the Middle Ages, the only entrance to the walled old town atop the crag.

A gate in the walls beside the harbour, opened on Pope Luna's orders around 1414 to give the fortress access from the sea; his coat of arms…

The first Christian gate opened in Ontinyent's wall in 1256; it led to the Plaça del Castell or de Sant Roc, where the medieval market was…

A string of crystal-clear pools carved into rock by the Clariano river on the outskirts of Ontinyent, a classic spot for natural-pool…

A natural pool of ferruginous water, very rich in iron salts, regarded as a genuine open-air natural spa.

Below the slope of Mount Benacantil, by the entrance to Ereta park, lie 19th-century cisterns carved into the rock that became an air-raid…

A former jail set on the ground floor of the Casa de la Vila, Morella's 14th-century Gothic town hall beside Carrer Blasco de Alagón.

Benidorm's tallest skyscraper and the tallest residential building in the European Union: two 47-storey twin towers joined near the top by…

A fortress-monastery built on the orders of Jaume I in the 13th century to guard the revered image of the Mare de Déu del Puig, patron…

Two underground galleries built beneath the Municipal Market during the Civil War to shelter residents from bombing raids, now turned into…

A complex of trenches, bunkers, tunnels and machine-gun nests that formed part of the Republican 'Inmediata' defensive line, the closest to…

An inland medieval town known for its wine, with the La Villa quarter and an underground labyrinth of caves dug in the Muslim era beneath…

Two hanging bridges with wooden decks and steel cables that cross the Turia canyon, descendants of the paths opened by the "pantaneros"…

A striking narrowing of the Turia canyon, about 160 m deep and barely 10 m wide, the tightest point of the gorges.

The sanctuary of Morella's patron, set in a wooded spot within the municipality and tied to the historic Sexenni pilgrimage that brings the…

A sanctuary dedicated to Peníscola's patron, the Mare de Déu de l'Ermitana, built between 1708 and 1714 in Baroque style over an older…

A neo-Byzantine sanctuary built between 1891 and 1897 atop the hill beside Cullera Castle, crowned by a striking bell tower with a…

A municipal theatre-auditorium opened in 2002 and the leading cultural venue in Aldaia, seating 713 with a generous 362 m² stage able to…

A municipal theatre built in the early 20th century as the assembly hall of the local athenaeum, beside the headquarters of Alboraya's…

The city's main theatre, opened in 1847 to a design by architect Emilio Jover Pierron.

Gandia's municipal theatre, raised in 1921 on the site of the old Teatro Circo and named after Valencian composer José Serrano, author of…

A theatre built in 1945 to plans by the Valencian architect Joaquín Rieta, over the former Teatro Circo of 1902, and fully restored in…

A 1st-century theatre carved into the castle hillside, it was the first monument declared of national interest in Spain (1896) and still…

Declared a National Monument in 1931, Santa María is famed for its splendid early-16th-century flamboyant Isabelline Gothic doorway, whose…

A large amusement park opened in 2000, inspired by the ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean.

A stout circular watchtower with an Arabic-origin name, perched on a cliff nearly 100 m high in the heart of the Serra d'Irta Natural Park,…

A cylindrical 16th-century watchtower that the Duke of Gandía had built to spot Barbary pirates, standing beside the mouth of the river…

This truncated-cone watchtower stands right on the seafront of El Puig beach, beside the promenade, built in the second half of the 16th…

Crowning the Calvary, beside the Sant Josep chapel, stands this 9th-century Islamic watchtower with a square plan, built of rammed earth…

A cylindrical 16th-century tower, one of the four corner towers that defended the castle-palace of the Centelles, counts of Oliva from…

A watchtower beside La Mata beach, raised to defend the old salt loading wharf against corsair raids.

A 13th-century Islamic tower with a square plan and truncated-cone shape, on the castle-hill slope facing the Barri del Pou; it was part of…

A 16th-century watchtower at the southern edge of Serra Gelada Natural Park, within Benidorm's municipal area.

A medieval Islamic watchtower (probably 11th century) crowning the Alto de Mariola, deep in the Serra de Mariola.

This nearly square watchtower was raised between the 8th and 9th centuries in the Andalusi period using stone and rammed earth coated with…

Built between the 8th and 9th centuries, this square rammed-earth tower lined with lime was part of Serra castle's alert and surveillance…

A watchtower about 20 metres tall, built in 1577 under Felipe II at the mouth of the Júcar to defend the coast against Barbary pirate…

A coastal watchtower atop Cabo Cervera whose origins date to the early 14th century, built to warn of Barbary pirate raids.

In the heart of the old town, on the Cantó de la Torre, stands this 9th-century Islamic defensive tower built of rammed earth and lime…

The two battlemented fourteenth-century towers flanking the main gate of Morella's wall are linked by a bridge joining the two keeps.

An archaeological site atop the hill that closes Poniente beach, declared a Cultural Heritage Asset (BIC) in 2023.

At 785 metres above sea level, at the head of the Barranc de la Nevera, stands this circular snow well built in 1706 with a capacity of…

Two museum spaces revealing Roman Sagunto beneath the old town. The Vía del Pòrtic preserves 60 metres of 1st-century Roman roadway, the…

A noble town of stately streets, fountains and palaces in the La Costera district, birthplace of the Borgia popes.