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.

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'…

An aqueduct traditionally considered Roman, although documents published in 2023 attribute it to the architect Vicente Gascó.

17th-century stone aqueduct, with pointed arches, across the ravine outside the town. Exterior viewing.

Small aqueduct located near the border with the municipality of Llíria, integrated into the traditional hydraulic system of the Artaix…

1st-century Roman aqueduct cut through the gorge, with standing arches on the Ruta del Agua. Hiking.

Notable section of the Roman aqueduct network that supplied the right bank of the Turia.

1903 orange warehouse by José Ríos Chinesta, basilica-type, by the station. It tells the orange-trade story.

Old mill that preserves the device used to extract wax from honeycombs, practically unique in the world along with another one in Portugal.

A historic oil mill integrated into the palace house complex of Sot de Chera, which kept its use until recent times.

Historic farmhouse from the 18th century listed among the monuments of Massanassa, an example of the traditional agricultural habitat of…

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

Fortified farmhouse declared an Asset of Local Relevance, with a sentry box (disappeared) and battlements that show its defensive function.

Outdoor amphitheater included in the performing arts program of Benicàssim.

Old Massanassa town hall building, listed among the monuments of the municipality as a sample of local historical institutional…

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

Old Post Office House of Silla, collected among the local architectural heritage, testimony of the public services of the municipality.

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

An old silk factory built in the 18th century by the Frenchman Joseph Lapayese, one of the most important and modern in the País Valencià.

The town's old jail integrated into the route of the historic center of Orpesa.

Old palace that preserves its volume and original appearance with simple decoration.

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.

Arab-origin aqueduct across the Salt de l'Aigua ravine, a listed cultural asset. Short walk.

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

Hydraulic complex formed by a Roman aqueduct over the Aigualit ravine, which carried water from the Sant Josep fountain for irrigation…

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.

Old open door in the medieval wall of Segorbe, so called because it preserves an image of the Holy Face (the head of our lord) inside.

2nd-century Roman arch over the Via Augusta, on the Pla de l'Arc. A national monument since 1931.

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…

Recreational area framed in the Llomaina public utility mountain, within the Túria natural park.

Two aqueducts from the Arab period, known as Arquets de Dalt and Arquets de Baix, which are part of the historical hydraulic heritage of…

One of the two musical societies of Llíria that support its title of UNESCO Creative City of Music.

Workers cultural society founded in 1869, with a 1929 oriental-style facade by Juan Guardiola and painted interiors.

Torrent municipal auditorium, the city's main stage facility for concerts and cultural programming.

Auditorium and municipal congress palace inaugurated in 2004, surrounded by the Guitarist Manuel Babiloni park.

Auditorio Josep Mª Bru, in the Casa de la Cultura of Agullent. Opened in 2011, it seats 235 spectators, has a large stage, dressing rooms,…

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

Auditorio Municipal of Genovés, a hall with a stable programme of theatre, dance, circus and music.

Auditorio Municipal Gabriel Aracil, a municipal cultural space devoted to music, the performing arts and other cultural events.

Old parish church of San Agustín Obispo, baroque and rococo style from the 17th-18th centuries, converted into the Wenceslao Ayguals de…

A municipal auditorium in Benicarló with more than 300 seats, managed by the culture department of the council.

Municipal auditorium inaugurated in 2011 with capacity for 480 people plus adapted seats, which shares a building with the Paterna Musical…

Auditorium of the Unión Musical Casinense, the town's musical society, which supports the band tradition and the musical celebrations of…

Municipal auditorium of Riba-roja de Túria that concentrates the cultural programming of the town: concerts, theater, dance and shows.

Open-air municipal auditorium built in the second half of the 20th century taking advantage of the rocky cliff in the Cuco area, in San…

Segorbe municipal auditorium which, together with the Serrano Theater, makes up the performing spaces of the local cultural programming.

15th-century Mudejar town hall. A civic landmark of the old centre.

A Valencian modernist building that houses the town hall of les Alqueries, on the Plaça Major.

Classicist style building built between 1925 and 1927 by the architect Joaquín Rieta Sister, considered one of the most beautiful in the…

Hydraulic engineering work known as the Cassola, built to divert the Túria River after the flood of 1957 and classified as an Asset of…

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

A spa that draws on the healing properties of the thermal waters underground, already known in Roman times.

Working spa on the Hervideros springs.

The Arab baths of Torres Torres, a covered rectangular enclosure with three parallel rooms, roofed with vaults and oriented from north to…

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…

Arab baths from the 12th century preserved in the historic center, testimony of the Islamic medina of Lyria that preceded the Christian…

Roman fish farm cut into the coastal rock, linked to a villa with mosaics nearby. Best seen at low tide with a calm sea.

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

4 km ravine walk in Planes past scented scrub and limestone walls to natural pools that the town hall notes for summer bathing.

Limestone gorge south of Tírig with Levantine rock-art shelters, World Heritage since 1998.

Long ravine on the PR-CV 168 between Benimassot, Tollos and Castell de Castells, with terraces and river woodland.

Town-edge gorge in the Serra de Mariola with a riverbed path between high walls and nesting vultures. Classic loop: 10 km, 450 m, 3.5 hours.

Centuries-old oak ravine in Ares del Maestrat, with the Roure Gros and Font dels Horts.

A limestone gorge by Montanejos with climbing walls, pine woods and the waymarked Senda de la Bojera loop.

Steep ravine above Millares with a hiking trail, an abseiling variant, rock-art shelters and castle detour.

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.

Oldest center of Cheste, originating from the Arab settlement, located in the lower part of the disappeared castle.

Neighborhood formed next to the wall after the granting of the Carta Puebla of 1248, when the Muslims who wanted to stay abandoned the…

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

Three historic quarters: Arab Benacacira, Jewish Azoque and Morisco Arrabal, with the San Francisco convent.

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

Church from the 13th century whose apse is in the primitive Gothic style with Romanesque elements.

18th-century basilica among pines, home of the city patroness. A point of pilgrimage and local devotion.

Baroque basilica built between 1602 and 1737, with a dome on a drum and a 17th-century altarpiece unique in the diocese.

It keeps the remains and cell of Saint Paschal, with a set of 84 bells. A basilica of royal patronage.

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

Baroque basilica from the 17th-18th centuries, stage of the Misteri d'Elx, with a blue-tiled dome over the centre.

Renaissance parish built between 1550 and 1582 by Domingo Gamieta.

Anti-aircraft shelter and coastal defense battery from 1938 located in Cape Cullera, next to the current Mirador del Faro.

A 1,104 m limestone crest between Vall d’Albaida and El Comtat, with the PR-V 213 from Beniatjar and protected karst landscape.

Buñol municipal library installed in an old rehabilitated paper mill, a symbol of the town's paper industrial past.

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

Cooperative winery, one of the first created in the Valencian Country, emerged at the beginning of the 20th century due to the needs of…

Medieval cellar network under the old town, on guided tours from the tourist office. The wine underground.

Limestone massif of 1209 m over Busot with a geodetic summit and sea views. The Canelobre show cave opens in its flank: ticketed entry.

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 street documented since 1550 and described by the geographer Cavanilles as superior to any in the kingdom, without excepting the capital.

Calvary located on the site occupied by the old Muslim and Christian fortress of Paterna, at the highest point of the old town, with views…

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…

Bell tower built in the mid-14th century by the master stonemason Bertomeu Bataller as a fortified tower of the municipal palace or Casa de…

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

1737 belfry, remains of the Dominican convent founded in 1360. A landmark of the village skyline.

An entrenched Magro valley, a municipal nature site since 2007, with riverside woods, ibex, a picnic area and an easy 9 km trail.

Deep limestone gorge of the Júcar between Cofrentes and Cortes, sailed by a 14 km river cruise and followed by the PR-CV 382 trail.

A gorge stretch of the Júcar at Jalance with its own viewpoint and a trail along the cliffs, deep in the valley.

Neo-Gothic hermitage built after the Civil War on the foundations of the old church where, according to tradition, the image of the Mare de…

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…

2298 hectare protected holm oak forest between Alcoi and Ibi, with a sanctuary, visitor centre and camping area.

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.

A Carthusian monastery founded in 1385 by the infante Martín, later Martín el Humano, with a bull of 1383.

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

Town hall in a historic building, facing the old town square. Civic architecture among churches and palaces.

Old town hall of Cullera, known as Ca la Vila, built in 1781 in the historic center, in the Plaza de España.

Antigua Casa de la Villa, a noble building of sober Castilian architecture with a neoclassical style façade, whose façade bears the…

Gothic-Renaissance palace built between 1547 and 1603, a national monument since 1930.

Sollana Town Hall located in the Plaza Mayor, whose façade dates back to 1922.

Modernist building designed by the Valencian architect Manuel Peris Ferrando and built between 1904 and 1906.

Former cloistered convent of Carmelite nuns built between 1926 and 1927, converted into the current Manises House of Culture.

The Casa de Cultura de Museros, at avenida del País Valencià, 17.

Torrent municipal cultural equipment for activities, exhibitions and cultural services.

Multifunctional space located on Calle Camino, 1, which houses the Municipal Public Library, an assembly hall for 150 people, an exhibition…

Palace from the end of the 19th century of the Marquises of González de Quirós, today the House of Culture of Gandía.

A municipal building with multipurpose rooms for cultural and educational activities, exhibitions and conferences, a library and an…

Building inaugurated in 1999 that serves as the cultural centre of Vilafranca.

Imposing building from the 19th century that housed the Piarist fathers until the 1940s and today is the House of Culture of Alzira.

Old town hall converted into a house of culture. On its façade the monumental baroque gate that gave lateral access to the disappeared…

Cultural landmark of Cheste, built in 1986 and dedicated to Alberto Sánchez.

New House of Culture inaugurated in September 2026 in Plaza de la Bassa.

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

Manor house from the 16th century located in front of the church of the Annunciation of Aldaia, former property of the counts of Nules.

Museum in the miller's house of the Riba-roja de Túria Mill, built by Manuel Alamar Mocholí.

The birthplace of the lexicographer Francesc Ferrer Pastor (1918-2000), turned into a museum of the word.

A fortified farmstead declared a Bien de Interés Cultural, one of the few remaining in l'Horta de València.

1588 Renaissance town hall with a traders loggia, sundial, the Gonari atlante and a Roman inscription.

Town hall built in the mid-sixteenth century by order of Saint Francis Borgia on a plot belonging to the Egea family.

Building probably constructed in the 16th century in a late civil Gothic style.

Town hall building from the late 19th century built according to plans by Sebastián Monleón (author of the Valencia bullring).

A building dated to the 14th century, a typical example of the civil Gothic architecture of the Castellón districts.

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

Three-story Renaissance building that belonged to the Abenàmirs, a prominent Muslim family that controlled the life of the municipality for…

1909 modernista house by Buenaventura Ferrando with central-European influence, also known as Casa Meseguer.

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

14th century building where rents were paid to the Order of Calatrava, lady of Xirivella after the conquest.

19th-century eclectic house, listed cultural heritage, home of the doll museum with gardens around it.

The most important civil building in Bugarra, built in the 16th century and known as The Tower for standing out in height over the…

Building from 1929 known as Casa dels Obrers, listed among the monuments of Massanassa.

Building that functions as a museum dedicated to fishing in Vinaròs, with tools, paintings and models related to seafaring activity.

Municipal scenic and cultural space in the historic center of Sagunt where theatrical performances and other cultural events are regularly…

House museum of the biochemist Alberto Sols, born in Sax, and venue of the local short-film festival.

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…

Preserved noble residence with period rooms and household objects, in the historic streets near the church.

House from the 16th century located on Cristianos Street, restored maintaining the typical structure of the old houses of Benaguasil:…

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…

Building with a neoclassical façade built in 1794 by Vicent Gascó, attached to the church.

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

Fortress-house, former residence of the lords of the town and the stately ball.

Modernist mansion from 1900-1904, by Pedro Cerdán, with period interiors open as a museum.

Casa-Palau of the Counts of Buñol, a nineteenth- and twentieth-century building with a neo-Gothic facade and heraldic shield.

Palatial residence of the Miró family dated to the 16th century, listed as a site of local relevance according to the General Directorate…

Large houses from the late 19th century located in the center of the town, from the golden age in which the phylloxera plague in the French…

Set of cave houses excavated in the land that are part of the architectural heritage of Paterna.

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.

Aquatic Turia descent by old Domeño, between Calles and Losa del Obispo.

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

Carbo river waterfall above clear pools, at the end of an 11.6 km riverside walk on the GR-7 from Masía Roncales. Cold water all year.

Last fall of Anna's Tres Cascadas walk, about 1 km in, with water dropping from the Gorgo de la Escalera.

The neighborhood, with its narrow, steep streets, has developed around the Castillo since medieval times.

Sloping lanes below the castle, with the church square. Viewpoints over the port and beaches.

A complex made up of practically the whole village, with a medieval topographic layout converging on the square.

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

Medieval street plan of stone lanes below the castle, on the slope. Culla joined the Pueblos Bonitos association in 2020.

17th-century dry-stone shelter linked to Franciscan friar Pere Esteve, a local devotional figure, in the Montgó foothills.

Modernist building from 1911, designed by architect Julio Vives Chillida.

Castle of Aledua, an example of Muslim defensive architecture from the taifa period, visible from the whole of the Marquesado.

A castle built by the Arabs over an Iberian settlement, on the hill that overlooks the town.

Also known as the Arab castle of Ares, it is a site of cultural interest with ministerial annotation RI-51-0010118 of 9 November 1997.

Remains of a medieval castle, some of whose elements are attributed a Roman age. Vestiges from the Arab and Christian periods are visible.

A castle on top of a crag that crowns the image of the village, today in ruins.

Castle located about 800 metres west of Olocau del Rey, on a mountain 1,203 metres high.

Fortress of Muslim origin dating from the 10th-12th centuries, located on top of a hill about 3 km north of the 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 castle of Muslim origin in the hamlet of Beselga, destroyed by the agermanats of Morvedre and later rebuilt by Gracià de Monsoriu.

Castle of Bolbaite, a sixteenth-century castle-palace raised by the marquises de la Casta over an Islamic fortress.

A fortress whose origins may be Roman, with Islamic and medieval architectural structures, standing on a hill north of Borriol.

A fortress of Muslim origin that gave its name to the old territory of Borró, now part of Ròtova.

Also known as the castle of the Maestranza de Montesa, it occupies the top of the hill that overlooks Cervera del Maestre.

Castle of la Carbonera, remains of a Muslim fortress conquered by the Cid Campeador, in the municipality of Beniatjar.

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

A castle built by the Muslims that brought together the scattered population and became the head of the barony.

An Islamic construction with medieval architectural alterations, standing on a hill beside the road from Cabanes to Oropesa.

Medieval castle of Muslim origin linked to the Banu Qasi lineage, one of the most important Arab fiefdoms in the area before the…

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.

Fortified enclosure of which remains survive, on the summit of a mountain in the Sierra de Irta about two kilometres from Santa Magdalena…

Castle of Quesa, a fortress of Arab origin built in the eleventh century and abandoned after the Christian conquest.

Town castle with two museums: the Visigothic MuPla and the MuCa ceramics. Cisterna square.

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…

A castle of Muslim origin, rebuilt during the Carlist wars, with a polygonal plan and four towers.

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.

Castle of Moorish origin built in the 12th century and conquered by the Knights Templar, who controlled the routes along the Mediterranean…

Muslim mountain fortress above Olocau, in the Calderona. Ruins on the ridge; climbed on foot.

Ruins of the Castell dels Alcalans, an eleventh-century taifa fortress and the most important in the area.

Castle of 1417, rebuilt in the sixteenth century and turned into the town hall in 1875, when the two flanking towers were removed.

A Gothic manor palace popularly known as el Castell, considered the best preserved of its kind in the comarca.

Castle remains on the hill of the first settlement, with the Magdalena hermitage. Views over the Plana and the sea.

Renaissance palace-castle from the 16th century with four crenellated towers and an interior patio with coffered ceilings and highly…

Iberian city-fortress on the Meca rock, with rock-cut road ruts, cisterns and houses. Later Roman and Muslim remains.

Ruined castle on the hill above Ademuz and the Turia river. The town walls started from its enclosure, in the capital of the Rincón de…

Rural fortress from the 10th-13th centuries that names the district. On the hills above l'Alcora.

12th-century Arab castle with a 17-metre keep. It withstood sieges in the War of Succession and crowns the old town of Banyeres.

A castle-palace from the second half of the 15th century, one of the best preserved in the Valencian Community, built over an Arab…

12th-century Almohad castle with ribbed vaults among the oldest of their style. A national monument since 1931 above the old town of Biar.

Medieval fortress that crowns the old town of Buñol, built in the 11th and 12th centuries and remodelled after the 13th-century Christian…

Heritage ensemble on the hill: a fortress with walls and towers above the old town and views over the Foia de Castalla.

Castle on the rock of the fortress-village, with the Torreta keep and the enclosure above the Ebrón valley.

15th-century castle on a crag above the Júcar, with a keep and walled bailey. Reached on the GR-7.

Medieval castle of Chiva, whose remains crown the hill that dominates the town.

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

Gothic military castle from the 13th-14th centuries, with a square tower of 13.5 metres per side and views over the Comtat valleys.

Castle on the rock where the Júcar meets the Cabriel, with a keep and parade ground.

11th-century Muslim fortress on Roman remains, a strategic promontory over the Ribera Baixa plain and the coast.

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

Islamic-era fortress above the port with the town archaeology museum inside, and ramparts with views over the town and the Montgó.

Of the castle of Dos Aguas, popularly called Castillo de los Moros, only the tower, a short stretch of battlemented wall and some annex…

Medieval castle from the 12th-13th centuries with the Renaissance Coloma palace inside, under restoration since 1983.

Islamic-period castle on the hill, protected heritage. The old watchtower of the Canal capital.

An 11th-century castle built over an Iberian settlement, on the hill that overlooks Jalance.

Castle on the rocky ridge above Jérica, with the Torreta keep and wall remains. Views along the Palancia corridor.

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…

Remains of the rural Alquería castle, nearly gone. In the Mijares valley, by Montanejos.

12th-century Arab castle with Almohad vaults among the oldest preserved, on the town hill.

Almohad castle on the sanctuary hill, with walls and towers over the valley. A paired visit with the modernist sanctuary.

Remains of the castle of Islamic origin that crowns the town, on the left bank of the Turia river.

A castle on top of a hill overlooking the town, with a Roman origin and an Islamic built complex from the 11th century, remodelled in the…

Late 12th-century Almohad fortress with battlemented towers, including the Torre de Coloms. The castle above the town.

Castle-convent, headquarters of the Order of Montesa from 1319, ruined in the 1748 earthquake. National monument since 1926.

Castle ruins on the inland hills of Benicasim, with views over the coast. A walking destination from the town.

Coastal fort built from 1742 with an ox-hoof ground plan on the seafront, defending the Moraira anchorage.

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

Castle on the hill above Onda, with a castle museum. Views over the ceramic towns of the Plana.

Rammed-earth castle in the Penella district, with a 4-by-12-metre tower. A rural fortress of the Cocentaina district.

Medieval castle above the town, open to visits for decades, with views over the Elda-Petrer conurbation.

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.

Castle on a rocky spur with two towers on the ridge, one of the three fortresses alongside Villena and Biar.

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

Islamic-period castle of Alcalà d'Alfàndec, a listed monument on the hill at the Mas de les Tres Creus.

A fortress on a circular hill surrounded by ravines and escarpments, some seven kilometres north of the town, also called Castillo de la…

A castle of Arab origin in the lower part of the village, beside the bed of the Mijares river.

Small Arab fortress on a long hill, over a Bronze Age settlement and dug in the 2000s.

10th-century fortress on a 400-metre hill by Espadán. A hilltop ruin with views over the valley.

Castle at the top of the reddish-stone village, with walls and towers. Views over the Pla de l'Arc plain.

Castle abandoned after the Morisco expulsion, standing as ruins that need work, reached on foot.

Fortress with rammed-earth walls from the 10th-11th centuries and a 13th-century Templar castle.

Remains of the medieval Aljau castle, one of the three fortresses on the Aspe coat of arms. A rural stronghold in the Vinalopó corridor.

Ruined hilltop fort, also called Fuerte del Collado. Walls and towers by the old pass road.

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…

Hilltop castle south-west of town on a 149 m hill, listed heritage since 2002, reached on foot.

Medieval castle by the Vinalopó, one of the three on the Aspe coat of arms. A rural fortress in the river's natural corridor.

It was the last residence of Zayd Abu Zayd, the Muslim king of Valencia, after he withdrew from his domains following his pacts with James…

Boïl castle-palace in the centre of Bétera, a listed historic-artistic monument restored in 2022.

Templar and later Montesa fortress above the village, with wall stretches. Views over the Maestrazgo ridges.

Muslim-origin castle on the rock, with walls, towers and parade ground. One defensive set with the town.

Remains of the castle and walls above La Pobleta, with the Santa Inés chapel beside them. Open-air visit.

Castle remains above the old town, with wall stretches. Views over the coast and the Prat.

A medieval fortress on a promontory beside the Sot river, with remains of a wall and an 11th-century watchtower.

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…

16th-century fortress ruins guarding the strait road between Calp and Altea, with Wikipedia and Wikidata agreeing on the position.

Castle-palace of the Dukes of the Infantado on the hill, with a walled enclosure and the church of Santa María at its foot.

Cathedral of Gothic, Renaissance and Neoclassical layers around a Gothic cloister. With a cathedral museum.

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 Centre Cívic de Massalfassar, the only space in the town devoted to culture.

Sueca's main stage space, installed in the old Lido Cinema from 1959 and converted into a cultural center.

Municipal cultural center that concentrates part of the cultural programming of Montcada, managed by the Culture area of ​​the City…

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…

Municipal cultural center that hosts exhibitions of plastic arts, including samples dedicated to artists such as Joan Miró.

Municipal cultural center of Meliana that hosts exhibitions, music, theater and dance, in addition to the activity of the municipal dance…

An interpretation centre housed in the Riurau del Roig, a former grape-drying building restored and turned into a museum.

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

The Unió Musical is, along with the Banda Primitiva, one of the two great musical societies of Llíria, whose band tradition has achieved…

Municipal cultural center in the center of Port de Sagunt that hosts institutional and cultural events such as literary awards ceremonies,…

A municipal cultural centre on the Plaza de la Iglesia, next to the church and the Archbishop's Palace.

Center dedicated to the knowledge, conservation and dissemination of the underwater archaeological heritage of the Valencian Community.

Center that recreates the essence of the Entry of Bulls and Horses, a festival declared of International Tourist Interest.

A sociocultural centre housed in the town's former schools, with a projection room and spaces for workshops and neighbourhood events.

Extinct 527 metre volcano with visible bombs, climbed on the 4 km volcanic route from Cofrentes.

Singular residential building of the civil heritage of Torrent, cited among the outstanding properties of the municipality.

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

Wide, calm Júcar reach below the Cortes gorge, on the Cofrentes to Cortes de Pallás river cruise (1:30 h sailing).

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

The separate pool at Los Charcos de Quesa, 40 m from the car park down a cabled bank, quieter than the main group.

The largest pool at Los Charcos de Quesa, a wide basin of the Grande river 1 km from the car park, with bathing allowed and pine woods…

Rock-carved pool on the Río Grande with a walk-behind fall, one of four signed bathing pools near Quesa.

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…

Chimney from an old brick factory (rajolar) from the early 20th century, protected as an element of local industrial heritage.

Two brick chimneys, the only preserved part of an old oil mill of the Rajolar Bautista Company Tarazona, in the San Jorge neighborhood.

A fall of the upper Cazuma on the PR-CV 234 loop, with the Rebolla viewpoint; unmeasured cascade, best after rains.

Water-filled canyon with a 60 m cascade, slides and chutes by the uninhabited hamlet of Otonel.

A seasonal waterfall in the Chera-Sot de Chera natural park, with a circular ravine route and spring. It flows after rain.

Rain-fed cascades and small caves on a Turia gorge slope, on an 11 km circular route (325 m climb) from the Benagéber dam.

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

Cine Monterrey, an example of Valencian art deco by the architect Juan Guardiola, built in 1950.

Permanent Grand Prix circuit opened in 1999. Home of the Valencian Community MotoGP Grand Prix.

Neoclassical building from the second half of the 19th century, popularly called La Gallera for having been a gallistic circle.

Xirivella's oldest musical society, founded in 1922, which has been the town's musical reference and headquarters of its music band.

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

Fortified Iberian-Roman city, a protected archaeological zone. The ancient city of the Turís district.

Site of a fortified Iberian city whose ancient name is unknown, in the area of ​​La Punta.

The cloister of the old Carmelite convent, founded in 1603 after the transfer of the hermitage of Santa Bàrbara and sixteen fanegadas of…

Municipal Natural Park declared by the Generalitat Valenciana in February 2002.

Glass museum in the Casa Santonja, a 17th-18th century palace with a Masonic mural programme, on a glass tradition near 1000 years old.

The old municipal slaughterhouse was refurbished to house an ethnographic museum collection.

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

A 628 m pass on the CV-715 between Ferrer and Carrascar, dividing the Marinas, with a roadside viewpoint.

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

Large 1960s education complex by Moreno Barberá, Brutalist in exposed concrete.

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…

20th-century Neo-Gothic co-cathedral over the old medieval parish church. It shares its square with El Fadrí.

Medieval lanes with noble houses, gates and towers. The old centre, listed BIC as a whole, is walked on foot.

Music conservatory, one of the two existing in the Horta Nord region, dedicated to musical teaching and concerts.

Buñol municipal music conservatory, a reference for the intense musical tradition of the municipality.

Conventual church of the Purísima Concepción and the Beata Inés, founded in 1611 by Saint John of Ribera for the Discalced Augustinian…

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

Convent of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, founded in the late seventeenth century.

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

Baroque convent complex built between the 16th and 18th centuries in the town centre of Benicarló.

Cloistered convent founded in 1431 by Violante of Aragón, daughter of the Duke of Gandía, inhabited by the Coletine Poor Clares.

A convent founded after the repopulation that followed 1609, when nine Servite monks arrived.

A convent of Discalced Carmelite nuns founded on 21 November 1671 in the baroque style.

A Franciscan convent founded in 1573 and rebuilt in 1778, which preserves its two-storey cloister.

16th-century Franciscan convent, now a roofless ruin by the river, below the village.

Convent church in the historic core, of Gothic-Baroque fabric. Beside the castle hill and the tower.

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…

A rock-art shelter included in the listing Rock Art of the Mediterranean Arc of the Iberian Peninsula, declared a World Heritage Site by…

The Palaeolithic site of the Bolomor ravine is one of the most important in the western Mediterranean.

A municipal cave found in 1919 and open for visits since 1995, with stalactites and columns by the CV-712.

A prehistoric cave with rock paintings in the Valltorta ravine, discovered in 1917 by Albert Roda.

Rock shelter with Levantine art rock paintings discovered in 1934, more than 7,000 years old and located at an altitude of 920 metres.

Cuevas de la Araña, a group of rock shelters with Levantine rock art declared a World Heritage Site.

Set of cave houses excavated around the Torre de Paterna, the largest group of the three that are preserved.

Set of caves of karst origin formed in the Triassic period about 250 million years ago, about two kilometers from the urban area.

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…

Stone cross under a canopy on the old roads of Jérica. A piece of Valencian Gothic popular architecture.

Gothic roofed wayside cross by the old road toward Algemesí. A listed monument tied by legend to Jaume I. Free, open-air visit.

Gothic stone wayside cross in the pass town. The old cross of Siete Aguas.

Outstanding cavity among the mountains that surround Bugarra, in the Los Serranos region, the result of karst modeling and the passage of…

Show cave 10 km from Jalance visited only on guided tours, with galleries, formations and legend.

900 metre-plus cave on the Seguili slope, with 20 metre domes, an inner lake and a visitable dry section by the road.

A Juanes river site with a 20 m waterfall after rain, pools and a cave, on a marked 8.5 km loop with free camping zones.

Cascade and natural lake on the río Buñol, the most photographed spot in the region, and since the DANA floods of October 2024 it has been…

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…

Contemporary art space located in the castle of Riba-roja de Túria.

Ecomuseum of Bicorp, an interpretation centre for the heritage of the Caroig Massif.

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…

Large natural gap between the rocks of the historic center through which the sea breathes on stormy days, expelling the water in clouds of…

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.

Free-standing 15th-century Gothic bell tower, the symbol of Castellón. It rises beside the co-cathedral, on the Plaza Mayor.

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…

Historic quarter on the hill below the church, with surviving old wall sections and stepped lanes with sea viewpoints.

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…

Old hydraulic mill included in the historical heritage catalog of the Montanejos City Council, an example of the traditional architecture…

An archaeological site occupied mainly in the Iberian and Andalusian periods, on a hill beside the town.

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 detached 649 m crag above Vallada, with a summit viewpoint over the village and the La Costera corridor.

Singular enclave in the municipality of Sollana located about 200 meters from the exit to the Albufera, also known as the Bala motor.

El Rebollo is a Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea) more than 700 years old, considered the oldest in Spain of its species.

Ephemeral fall on the Barxell that only runs after heavy rain, with a viewpoint on the greenway circuit.

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

Archaeological site located on an elevated terrace between the Torrelló ravine and the Mijares river, with easy access only from the west.

Tossal at the western end of the term where the remains of the walled Iberian town of Tos Pelat are preserved, with Iberian and Roman…

A residential garden suburb built over a former pine forest on the Sierra Perenxisa, on the outskirts of Torrent.

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

Spring-fed fall of about 12 m at the foot of the Barranc del Cint paths above Alcoi, on a 10 km loop of 3.5 hours.

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

Fresh, crystalline water springs that form small lagoons, rich in flora and fauna and a refuge for threatened fish species such as the…

Small Palancia reservoir a 20-minute riverside walk from Algar village via the Paseo del Amor, with pines and a recreation area by the dam.

A turquoise Mijares reservoir between Montanejos and Puebla de Arenoso, with road viewpoints, picnic spots and summer coves.

1995 flood-control reservoir on the Albaida between Bellús and Benigànim, with a dam viewpoint and easy shore tracks. 4.6-mile shore trail.

A large reservoir on the Turia built in the 1940s and opened in 1952, which forced the old village, now under the water, to be moved and a…

1958 Serpis reservoir between Beniarrés and Planes with an accessible shoreline, fished for carp and black bass.

Mountain reservoir by Benitandús hamlet, below the Espadán Organs. A 6 km loop through cork-oak woods and viewpoints over the water.

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

A large 1972 reservoir on the Cabriel, with a 129 m dam and open views by the Hoces park. A road-viewpoint stop.

A Júcar reservoir behind a 116 m arch dam, with a 14 km tourist boat trip and La Muela 400 m above the river.

Júcar reservoir at Cofrentes where the river cruise departs, calm water with fishing and twin-river views.

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

A 1969 reservoir on the Magro with a gravity dam, fishing and a circular route from Yátova with Motrotón views. An easy outing.

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

A 1901 to 1925 dam on the Viuda rambla, 59 m high and 265 ha, for aquifer recharge between groves and low hills.

1960 concrete gravity dam on the Mijares with a wide lake, built for irrigation control and power above Onda.

Arch dam of 1580 to 1594 on the Monnegre, 41 m high, among the oldest working dams in Europe. Signed path to the wall in a 10 m wide gorge.

A large reservoir on the Júcar rebuilt after the 1982 flood, with broad water for sailing and fishing by the new dam.

A 1957 reservoir between Villajoyosa and Orxeta, 4 km from the sea, with a walkable shoreline and coastal views.

1770 irrigation reservoir south of Moixent, a protected monument ringed by pines and ravine walks.

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…

Hermitage located next to the Papa Luna castle that houses the image of the city's patron saint, Nuestra Señora de la Ermitana.

Religious building constructed between the 16th and 17th centuries in Baroque style, in the municipality of Castellfort, beside the road…

Baroque-neoclassical hermitage from the 18th century located at the top of Puig de la Misericordia, about six kilometers from the urban…

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

The Ermita de la Mare de Déu de la Vallivana, built in 1738 in Rococo style.

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

17th-century hermitage with a ceramic altarpiece, at the edge of town. Open on feast days. Short walk.

Purisima chapel recorded since 1595, north of the old centre. Village walk.

16th-century hermitage at the edge of the village, with a later Calvary. A stop on the chapel walk.

18th century hermitage located in the area of ​​San José, next to the entrance to the Coves de Sant Josep.

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

Primitive Gothic hermitage from the second half of the 13th century, the town's first church, with a nave of pointed arches and a coffered…

A hermitage on the summit of the Garbí, in the municipality of Estivella, where the Santa Creu was installed in 1787.

16th-century hermitage on a hill, with views over the Montesa valley. The upper chapel of the Order town.

Small 14th-century Gothic chapel at the edge of the village, a stop on the walls walk.

Hermitage built in the place where, according to tradition, some potters found the image of the Virgin of Health, a dedication to which the…

Hermitage built in 1573, initially dedicated to San Vicente Ferrer and later to the Virgen de la Soledad Gloriosa, patron saint of the…

Hermitage dedicated to the Virgen de los Desamparados, located in the village of La Alquería, district of Montanejos.

Modern hermitage, still unfinished, erected on Alto del Puente, a hill-viewpoint from which you can see a panoramic view of the town next…

Hermitage located in the surroundings of the Chiva castle, dedicated to the Virgin of the Castle.

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

A 14th-century chapel dedicated to the Virgin of El Remedio, partially destroyed during the Carlist wars and rebuilt in 1839.

Simple baroque hermitage whose original work dates, according to Pedro Sucías Aparicio, from 1747.

14th-century Gothic chapel at the entrance to Ademuz. It is the oldest standing building in the village.

Plain 17th-century hermitage on Calvario street, above the town. The upper chapel of Cofrentes.

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…

Former chapel of the upper town, now an exhibition hall and viewpoint. Closes the Tuéjar route.

A neo-Gothic chapel built by the neighbours between 1919 and 1921 and blessed in October 1922, on the site of a short-lived chapel that…

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.

Neo-Gothic style hermitage remodeled in 1896, located on the Paseo de San Luis next to the spring and the San Luis fountain.

16th-century hermitage north of the village, on the old Camarena road. Mountain setting.

Hermitage from 1892 located on the Giner mountain, surrounded by leafy pine trees, with drinking water sources and proximity to the sports…

13th-century Reconquest church, the oldest in the district and first Christian parish of the farmland. Listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural.

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

A chapel built at the end of the 19th century, oriented from east to west, with a wooden door to the south and ogee reliefs on the corners…

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

Hermitage located on a hill that dominates the southern end of the Serra d'Irta, next to Alcossebre.

Chapel with a centralized plan from the 17th century ordered to be built by the Count of Carlet.

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

An 18th-century chapel dedicated to Saint Christopher, in the area of La Lloma, also called Lloma d'En Bom, on a rocky outcrop at more than…

Hermitage terrace at 923 m above Alcoi with aerial views over the town and the Cint gorge.

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

Church-hermitage from the 18th century located a hundred meters from the city, the work of the Augustinian friar Fray Pere Gonel.

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.

A 16th-century Gothic hermitage dedicated to Sant Miquel Arcàngel, set on a hill in the municipality of la Font d'en Carròs.

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…

Hermitage dedicated to the patron saint of Algemesí, built between the 16th and 18th centuries on Valencia Street, at the entrance to the…

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

A hermitage built in the 20th century in the hamlet of Beselga, dedicated to Sant Roc.

Thirteenth-century Gothic chapel, the oldest surviving building in Carcaixent and the former church of the vanished hamlet of Ternils.

Chapel of San Roque and San Sebastián, in the historic centre, founded according to tradition by James I after conquering the town.

A chapel in the Pla de Sant Vicent, on the path of the Mas dels Arcs, before reaching the cemetery and about 300 metres from Les Coves de…

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

A chapel dedicated to the patron saint of Zucaina, built at the end of the 18th century and located about 4 km from the village, in the…

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…

The Ermita de Santa Anna, built on a small mound where tradition places the discovery of the image.

A 15th-century chapel, considered the oldest in Catí. It stands outside the urban centre, within the municipal area, and is still the…

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.

Hermitage located on a hill in the foothills of Montí. It is a building with a single nave and four sections, with a small bell tower and…

Ruins of the Santa Bárbara chapel by Ademuz castle, linked to the local Santa Cruz rites.

17th-century chapel with a 1728 hostelry and a five-spout fountain. A local-interest monument, outside the village.

A small chapel built in 1370 as the mosque of the Mudéjar-Moorish quarter of the Arrabal de Benaeça and consecrated to the Holy Cross in…

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

Hermitage from the 15th century, a simple rural chapel with later reforms and a starting point for walks in the Denia hinterland.

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.

Hermitage built in 1792 in the Calvario roundabout, which housed a life-size image of Christ venerated with great devotion.

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.

A chapel linked to the discovery, on 18 January 1625, of an image of Christ with his feet on a reed bed, found by the brothers Pere and…

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

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…

A building that combines medieval and Baroque styles, constructed between the 16th and 17th centuries, with its rooms enlarged in the 18th…

18th century chapel dedicated to El Salvador, patron saint of Onda.

Hermitage of the patron saint in a natural setting on the banks of the Mijares River, about 2 km from the city.

Building of the old University of Gandía, founded in 1549 by Francisco de Borja and later converted into the Pious Schools.

Old school building from 1932 listed among the monuments of Massanassa, testimony of the public architecture of the first third of the 20th…

Former parish church of Xert, listed as a site of local relevance under the code 12.03.052-007, in accordance with the fifth additional…

Main parish temple of Vinaròs, in Gothic-Renaissance style from the 16th century, with a baroque doorway added between 1698 and 1702.

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

A work of the early 18th century: construction began in 1715 and the church was consecrated for worship in 1739.

Baroque parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption, completed at the end of the 17th century, in the El Poble de Baix neighborhood.

Alaquàs parish church built next to the castle-palace, in a Churrigueresque style.

Carlet's main Catholic temple and great historical icon. It was the church of a Dominican convent founded in 1610 by order of the Count of…

Parish Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, founded after the Christian conquest of 1238.

Parish Church of the Inmaculada de Sollana, the main temple of the town.

Parish church of the Virgen de Gracia, built in 1763 after the earthquake of 23 March 1748.

A parish church attached to the bell tower and dedicated to the town's patron saints.

Temple with a neoclassical façade that originated as a hermitage of the old convent of Mínimos de Alaquàs.

Parish Church of the Virgen de la Salud, a Catholic temple from the late 17th century with a Latin cross plan, bell tower and side chapels.

A parish church with a Gothic origin and a fortified character. It was built after the war of the two Peters, in the time of Alfonso the…

Benetússer parish church from the 18th century in Churrigueresque style, with a carved pulpit, a façade finished in 1902 and a neoclassical…

Catholic parish church of Mislata dedicated to the Virgin of the Angels, built around 1704 and inaugurated in 1755.

Silla parish church of neoclassical style begun in 1764 (around 1751 according to other sources) under the patronage of the Knights of…

The parish church of the hamlet of la Barona, in the municipality of Vall d'Alba, listed as a Bien de Relevancia Local under the fifth…

Parish church of the Nativity of the Virgin, a temple begun in the sixteenth century and finished in 1737.

A parish church built between 1685 and 1691 in the Baroque style, and extended in 1864 with the construction of the Chapel of the…

A building of medieval origin, given Baroque form in the 17th century, raised partly over a cistern that may have served as a crypt.

Alfafar parish church started in 1736 and opened for worship in 1748, with a three-section bell tower and clock.

Church of San Andrés, begun in 1746 and known as the Cathedral of the Ribera for its size.

The parish church of Sant Antoni Abat, whose foundation is documented in 1285 and whose first chapel was commissioned by Raimundo Escorna…

Church of San Antonio de Padua, second parish or historic hermitage of Massanassa, collected among the religious monuments of the…

Baroque parish church from the 18th century, built on an earlier church of which very little documentation survives.

The parish church of Sant Cristòfol, from the 18th century, later restored and neoclassical in style.

Former Dominican convent from the 13th-14th centuries, when Xàtiva was the second city of the Kingdom of Valencia.

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…

The parish church of Sant Gil Abat, in Aragonese Baroque style and built in the 17th century.

The Església de Sant Honorat, built in the 18th century in neoclassical style with Baroque elements.

The parish church of Sant Jaume, built in the late 17th century over an earlier temple documented in 1577.

Archpriest church dedicated to the apostle Saint James, built between 1752 and 1779 and considered the largest of its category in Spain.

A 19th-century neoclassical church built over an earlier temple and dedicated to Sant Jaume Apòstol.

Baroque church built between 1736 and 1766, architectural landmark of Alcalà de Xivert.

Church of San Lorenzo Mártir, built in 1695 over an old mosque and finished in 1701.

Parish church built in the 14th century and rebuilt and enlarged between 1622 and 1659, the year it was considered finished.

Church of San Miguel Arcángel, a Renaissance temple of 1637 built with stone from the La Pedrera quarry.

The parish church of Sant Miquel Arcàngel stands in the centre of Bellreguard.

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…

Neoclassical church whose construction began on 1 August 1763 under the master builders José Dolz and José Ayora.

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

Church of San Vicente Mártir, already mentioned in 1340 and built in its present form in 1560 by the master Joan Matalí.

The Església de Santa Anna, built in 1669 and considered the oldest in La Vall, has been heavily altered by successive interventions and…

The parish church dedicated to Santa Bàrbara, patron saint of Piles.

The Església de Santa Bàrbara, heir to the old hermitage ceded to the Carmelites in 1600.

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…

Parish church qualified as a site of local relevance, in the category of Monument of Local Interest.

Raval Church, the only remains of the old convent of the Mercedarian fathers, with a façade typical of 17th-century neoclassicism and two…

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

Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Mislata, one of the town's landmark temples, cited among the places of religious interest in the…

Neoclassical parish church from the 17th-18th centuries located in Plaza del Ángel, in El Poble de Dalt, the second historic center of the…

Parish church of the Santos Juanes, a sixteenth-century temple with a hexagonal ashlar tower finished in 1604.

The church of the Sants Joans was rebuilt between 1760 and 1790 over a 16th-century temple.

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.

The parish church of Nostra Senyora, the religious centre of Albuixec.

The parish church of Sant Pere is declared a Bien de Relevancia Local and stands practically in the centre of the urban core of Tavernes.

Massanassa parish church from the 18th century dedicated to Saint Peter the Apostle, located in the Church Square.

Parish church of Peñíscola, formerly dedicated to the Virgen del Socorro, located in the historic center.

The parish church of Vilallonga was built from 1719 and inaugurated on 6 November 1757.

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

Municipal ethnographic museum installed in a group of old cave houses in the south of the town.

Municipal cultural space located on the first floor of the Market Building, in the old offices of the PROP Office.

Cultural space excavated in the northern area of ​​the Coves de la Torre, which preserves the aesthetics of the historical complex.

Museum of contemporary art of Castelló, cited among the main attractions of the city.

Narrow gauge railway station built in 1925, a modernist reference in Valencian railway architecture.

Municipal-owned soccer field used by Villarreal CF for its matches.

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 site made up of three lagoons, the remains of an old wetland kept alive by two freshwater springs that flow all year round.

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

Upper Palancia gorge with cold pools between rock walls, walked on a demanding loop from Los Cloticos.

8 km gorge loop from Montanejos along the Mijares narrows, with cliff viewpoints, swifts and the Cueva Negra.

Mijares canyon closed by the Cirat dam, diverting water to the Collado Blanco power plant.

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.

Lighthouse inaugurated in 1859 to direct maritime traffic in the area, located next to the Torre del Rey and still in operation.

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

A fresh-water spring at the village exit, with a picnic spot, and the natural gateway to the Infern ravine.

A historic spring in the Murta valley, in Alzira: an 18th-century stone aqueduct carries the water to two pools behind the Jeronymite…

The spring supplying the village, with three spouts under willows, an 18th-century washhouse and the Remolí mill behind.

Small pine-shaded spring above Alcoi with a picnic area, by the Estret viewpoint. Easy 4.6 km loop from town, 162 m of climbing.

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

Spring and picnic ground at the foot of the Serra d'Agullent, with a play area, a bar and high-path trailheads.

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

Natural arch on the Bernia ridge crest, the classic goal of the ridge walk between the coast and the interior.

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 spring famous for the quality of its mineral-medicinal waters, classified as calcium-magnesium bicarbonate and indicated for the…

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

Chiva's modernist fountain known as Fuente de los Veintiún Caños.

A monumental 50-spout fountain by the Palancia, with tables, shade and the crest of each province on every spout.

Thermal spring classified as an Asset of Local Relevance whose waters gush out at a constant temperature of 25 degrees and a flow of about…

The seven-spouts fountain in the town centre. The water mark of Siete Aguas.

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…

Old supply spring of Chella at the head of its gorge, recorded since the 18th century, on the mill route.

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…

House-museum and study center dedicated to the poet Francisco Brines, Cervantes Prize winner, on the L'Elca estate.

Water-cut gorge near the Cazuma headwaters on the PR-CV 234 loop, with swim pools and a cave turnoff.

Waterfall pool on the Encantada ravine, reached by steps down from the trail, with linked pools downstream.

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.

Main municipal theater of Paterna, inaugurated in 1928 and reopened in 2000 under the name of the Paterna actor Antonio Ferrandis.

Municipal Theater of Alzira, a modernist building with an interesting interior built in 1921.

Municipal theater of Xàtiva located on Avinguda de Selgas, 9. It maintains a stable season of theatre, music, dance, opera and family shows…

The classical port of Saguntum, about 6 km from the city, active from the late 6th century BC into late Roman times.

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…

A 6,000 m² municipal historic garden with around 400 trees and 300 plant species, built on the remains of a 16th-century Franciscan…

Old hospital founded by Jaume I in 1244 and rebuilt in the 16th century; icon of Valencian architecture that merges the final Gothic and…

Historic garden of the Palmeral with the seven-armed Imperial Palm, cacti and Mediterranean planting.

Baroque temple from the 17th century that replaced the Church of La Sangre as the main parish in 1642.

17th-century archpriestal church on the Plaza Mayor, early Valencian Baroque with a bell tower.

Archpriest church of Chiva built in the 18th century. The main temple of the municipality, it houses a collection of paintings by the…

Valencian Gothic church with Romanesque roots and a 15th-century bell tower. The parish museum keeps the Pope Luna chalice.

A Baroque temple begun in 1626 under an agreement with the architect Pedro de Ambuesa and consecrated in 1644, although it was not finished…

Gothic-Baroque parish from the 13th century over the former main mosque, with a 1692 Baroque portal by Gaspar Díez.

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

Gothic-Renaissance church from the 14th century with twisted columns among the oldest of the style, old-town parish.

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 church dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, whose construction began in 1636.

Valencian Gothic parish built between 1592 and 1621, with a square bell tower, Segrelles oils on the high altar and a Gothic silver Vera…

Late-Gothic parish church, listed as a Bien de Relevancia Local, with star vaulting. Works from the 15th-19th centuries.

15th-century church, listed as a cultural asset, holding eight paintings from the Ribalta school.

Second Gothic parish of Ayora, from the 16th century, in the lower town. A sober church in a frontier town.

Late-Gothic 15th-century parish church with a 1519 Plateresque portal and a Baroque bell tower over the old town.

Gothic parish from 1434, remodelled from 1625, with a multicolour tiled dome, eleven chapels and Segrelles paintings.

Gothic single-nave parish church with ribbed vaults planned in 1536 and a 17th-century Mannerist portal at the end of Carrer Major.

Mid-19th-century neoclassical parish replacing a ruined Gothic church, with a dome showing an angel and a 1925 belfry funded by neighbours.

18th-century Baroque parish church in the historic centre, below the castle. It keeps a 1558 altarpiece by Juan de Juanes.

Parish church rebuilt between the 16th-18th centuries under the castle rock, with the town's devotional images.

Baroque parish church with a 17th-century altarpiece and a Valencian tiled dome. The main church of the old centre.

Parish church of the old quarter, Gothic base with additions. A tower over the village rooftops.

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.

The church of the new village of Benagéber, built between 1953 and 1954 after the forced move caused by the reservoir.

A parish church dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Natividad. It preserves a carving by José Esteve Bonet and an unusual collection of…

Broad parish finished in 1777 by Antonio Gilabert, with marbles, a big dome and a large bell tower.

17th-century parish church in the centre of Calles, starting point toward the Peña Cortada trail.

13th-century church over the former mosque, mixing Romanesque, Gothic and Mudéjar work. Old town.

13th-century transitional Gothic church, of Templar origin. With a Mudejar wooden ceiling.

Gothic church in the historic core, by the hilltop castle. One of the two historic parish churches.

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

Parish church from the late 18th century, with side towers, a blue-tiled dome and frescoes by Joaquín Oliet.

Baroque parish church in the old town, home of the local patroness. Historic square and lanes around it.

16th-century parish church mixing Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque sgraffito. The main church of the village.

Modern parish church from 1973-1975 decorated with mosaics, next to the Gothic-Mudejar old church, the only one of its style in the region.

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

Parish church on the town-hall square, by the cistern and the old bridge. Old-quarter axis.

17th-century parish church in the centre of Meliana, next to the Palauet Nolla and the hermitages.

Parish church built between 1940 and 1953 replacing the 1596 church, holding the Mare de Déu del Castell image.

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…

Baroque-style parish church that presides over the Plaza de la Vila, built in the first third of the 18th century and inaugurated in 1737.

18th-century Baroque parish church with a Valencian tiled dome over the crossing, facing the Plaza de la Constitución.

Parish from 1693-1702 with a Baroque trasagrario and a 1744 organ, unique of its period in the province.

Gothic parish from the 15th and 16th centuries, listed heritage, with added Baroque chapels.

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.

A church from 1757, with a single nave with side chapels between buttresses, a communion chapel and a high choir.

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.

Parish from 1775 on the town square. The 18th-century church of the Júcar canyon.

17th-century Baroque parish church, a listed historic-artistic monument modelled on Il Gesù.

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

Parish church crowned by tiled domes, one called the dome of the Mediterranean, at the top of the old quarter with a square viewpoint over…

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…

Gothic parish in the upper town from a primitive 1329 church, with the Crist de l'Empar and Verge del Remei images.

A 13th-century parish church, remodelled in the 17th century, with a later tower.

17th-century parish with a Churrigueresque interior. The main church in the centre of Canals.

Parish church begun in 1533, with a Renaissance interior, side chapels and tower. Village centre.

Rectangular-plan parish begun in 1779 over the earlier one, by Francisco Sánchez on the Plaza de Baix.

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.

Neo-Byzantine church dedicated to Sant Jordi, patron of Alcoy. Devotional centre of the April festival, next to the Plaza de España.

Parish church in the old centre of Alcalá de Chivert. Its complex houses the parish museum of religious art.

Baroque parish church raised in 1791 in the centre of Cabanes. It faces the old town square.

1734-1751 parish church damaged in the Civil War, plain stone exterior with tiled dome. Historic core.

Parish on Constitución square, rebuilt over two centuries ago. The church of the pass town.

Baroque parish with a hexagonal tower, listed heritage. The vertical mark of the Cheste old town.

A 17th-century church built on the spot where San Luis Bertrán preached, with an eclectic façade and a hexagonal bell tower completed in…

Mannerist church from the 16th and 17th centuries, of Herrerian splendour, with a Virgen de Gracia retablo and a Gothic processional cross.

17th-century Baroque parish church in the highest village of the Valencian Community, above 1,100 m.

Baroque parish church of Simat holding the titular image of Sant Miquel.

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.

14th-century parish church remodelled in the 1700s, next to the tower and museum in the historic core.

Romanesque church from the Reconquest, the oldest in the village. In the historic quarter.

The parish church was built in the second third of the 18th century in the neoclassical style promoted by the Real Academia de San Carlos.

Neo-Gothic parish from 1881-1889, with a needle spire. 1917 Santíssim chapel and relics chapel.

Parish church of Romanesque origin enlarged in the 16th century, with blue-tile domes and bell tower, listed since 1982.

A 17th-century parish church in a neoclassical style, in the old town, with its main facade on Calle San Sebastián and a side door onto…

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…

A parish church built on the site that was the palace-house of the infante James I, ceded for the temple in 1385.

Parish church founded in 1528, a Baroque building with towers over the old town.

Fortified 16th-century parish church with a defensive character against coastal raids, in the heart of the old town.

1887-1900 parish church on the top of the old core, above a Civil War shelter. With castle and cistern.

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.

Parish church originating in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 16th-17th centuries, with a bell tower raised in 1705.

16th-century church over a former mosque, with a Baroque portal in the old town by the castle slope.

Parish church begun in 1734 in Corinthian Baroque, at the foot of the castle. Re-furnished after the Civil War losses.

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.

Gothic church at the castle foot, with a Marian panel linked to Yáñez de la Almedina. The upper parish of the town.

Fortified 16th-century church with a Renaissance portal, Fortified 16th-century church with a Renaissance portal, raised after the…

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

1778 parish church with a late-Gothic altarpiece from the 15th-16th centuries and frescoes by Sempere.

A church built between the 17th and 18th centuries in a neoclassical style, listed as a Site of Local Relevance.

A temple whose construction began in 1600 and is estimated to have been finished around 1605.

Neoclassical parish church from 1769-1776 in the centre of Benicasim, with paintings linked to the Camarón workshop.

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

1743 Baroque single-nave church with a plastered and painted facade, serving the old hospital quarter.

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…

18th-century parish church in the centre, starting point for the climbs to the castle and the Puntal.

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…

Orthodox temple in Russian style at Altea Hills, described as the first Orthodox temple built in Spain, in woods above the coast.

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

Baroque church from the mid-18th century, dedicated to the patron saint and built on the old mosque: the base of its tower was the minaret…

Parish church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, construction began in 1736 using parts of a previous, more modest Gothic building.

A temple made up of two church bodies and a bell tower, in the centre of Casas Altas.

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 16th-century temple, Renaissance in style with Gothic elements from its original construction.

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

A parish documented since the first third of the 13th century, although the present temple took its definitive appearance at the end of the…

Parish church of Montanejos, dedicated to San Jaime, located in the urban area.

Parish from 1621 under the castle rock. The main church of the town, between the houses and the climb.

Church from the 17th century that presides over the Plaza Mayor. Its bell tower preserves at the base part of the minaret of the old…

An 18th-century church, later extended, in a neoclassical style. The square bell tower was added over the original bell-gable; outside, the…

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

Parish church built on the previous one from the end of the 17th century; The works began in 1967 and the temple was blessed in 1993.

A 16th-century parish church in a Renaissance style, in the centre of Titaguas.

A temple begun in 1773 on the site of a small chapel dependent on Ademuz, thanks to a donation from a local married couple.

16th-century Levantine Gothic fortress church, listed for its defensive character, parish of the old town by the walls.

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 medieval cistern converted into an exhibition space and the ethnographic museum of Petrès.

Paiporta municipal auditorium in modernist style, built in 2000 and inaugurated in 2003.

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

The old Quart de Poblet railway station has been converted into the municipality's tourist office and exhibition hall.

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,…

The most emblematic and oldest park in Utiel, inaugurated in 1864.

Ibero-Roman town south of Elche, findspot of the Dama de Elche in 1897, with a museum over the excavation.

Watchtower located at the top of a hill in La Pedrissa, above the bed of the Mijares River and in visual communication with the Onda…

Walled Iberian town from the 4th century BC on a 741 m hill. The Guerrer de Moixent bronze appeared here in 1931.

The white dome of the weather radar on the Cullera range crest, a waypoint on the Senda de la Lloma (PR-CV 336).

Small municipal reserve of damp riverside woodland in the Sellent valley, with laurels, hackberry trees and birdsong a short walk from…

An 18th-century manor house of 498 square metres, bought by the town council in 1998 in a ruinous state and restored with the collaboration…

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

15th-century cistern under the cultural building, a visitable museum space. The most unusual stop.

14th century building located in the old Cap de Baix, the axis of the historic center of Xirivella, restored in the 2000s.

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

Gothic-style terminus cross that marks the municipal boundary between Mislata and Valencia, recently rehabilitated.

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

A municipal natural site declared in 2002, annulled and declared again in 2008.

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 building erected in 1892 on the site of the old town hall, in the centre of the town, at the start of the Plaza Mayor.

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 18th-century snow house, dug out to store snow collected in winter and keep it until summer.

Natural pool on the Tuéjar river, on Chelva's 7.5 km circular Water Route (2:45 h, low difficulty).

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

Almohad rammed-earth tower on the hill above Chelva, the last standing remain of the Muslim defences.

Viewpoint located at the top of a hill, with a cross-monument that commemorates the work of the Dominican Fathers in 1940.

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…

Laundry built in 1903, with a rectangular floor plan with a hipped roof.

A group of 18th-century basins built by monks to irrigate the orchards of la Drova, in the municipality of Barx.

A managed river walk with bathing falls and pools, summer lifeguards and capped entry. River shoes and picnic area.

Artificial lagoon of 11,800 m² located in the Albufera Natural Park, in the Barranc area, dedicated to the recovery of the samaruc…

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

Old municipal laundry, the work of architect Juan Segura Lago, next to the Civil Guard barracks at the intersection of the N-332.

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…

Archaeological site from the Bronze Age (c. 1800-1300 BC) located on a hill in the Vallesa de Mandor area, next to the Turia River.

A building of Gothic arcades and Mudéjar elements dated to the 13th century, known as Els Perxes, in the centre of Ares del Maestrat.

Modernist hall by Santiago Calatrava under the Plaza de España in Alcoy.

Former hemp trading exchange from the beginning of the 17th century, built between 1606 and 1617 by Francesc Galiança.

Historic contract hall in the old quarter near the basilica, linked to the trading past of the town.

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

Vertical limestone blades above the Cabriel gorge, in the largest natural park of the region.

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…

The Vicente Aguilera Cerni Museum of Contemporary Art, housed in the Palau del Batlle, a civil Gothic palace built in the mid-15th century…

Contemporary art collection inside the historic quarter, with rotating shows. The cultural pole of the village.

Symmetrical cone of 1296 m with a crown of crags, emblem of the Alicante plain, in the Maigmó i Sit protected landscape. Loop: 15 km, 738 m.

Sulphurous thermal spring of volcanic origin with a historic spa among pines, 4 km from Cofrentes and linked to the Cerro de Agras volcano.

Constant-flow spring at the foot of the Esperanza hill, between Navajas and Segorbe.

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…

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.

The Marjal de Massanassa area, within the Albufera Natural Park, preserves rice fields, ditches and ullals with native Mediterranean flora…

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

19th century building with a ground floor with an interior patio formed by a porch with lowered arches, one of the best preserved elements…

Farmhouse originated in the mid-19th century as a religious convent, from which it takes its popular name.

A small walled village that belonged to the barony and marquisate of Nules and became a hamlet of Nules at the end of the 19th century.

An old farmhouse and Dominican convent founded in 1471 in the municipality of Museros.

Modernista slaughterhouse built in 1921-1924 with a geometric brick main doorway.

Two Roman mausoleums from the 1st century located at the northern entrance of ancient Edeta, within the Pla de l'Arc site.

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…