Would you like to Valencia? Be sure to read the walking tour offered by the city valencia vacation. Valencia vacation we invite you to Valencia and its people, history, its monuments, its coast.

The city of Valencia is very much in the path of the winding river Turia that elapses until it empties into the sea, so Valencia, before shipping, is river city. In Roman times (Valentia) and during the seven centuries of existence as a Muslim community in Spain, the river Turia was a natural fortress against attacks from the north. Other defense elements that remain today in Valencia and have a high tourist interest were the walls, with beautiful and solid doors as the Torres de Serranos and Torres de Quart, Valencia within them grew on itself.

Valencia are in neighborhoods with so much tradition as the Jewish quarter (the Xerea), Sant Francesc, El Carmen, El Mercat, ...

When visiting Valencia one of the landmarks that tourists should not miss is the Gothic tower Miguelete Valencia (1381), octagonal. The Gothic Tower Miguelete has three naves, a transept and an ambulatory with chapels, is covered with ribbed vaults and a dome tower and light shed by large openings.

Another important landmark building in Valencia you can not miss is The Basilica of Our Lady of the Abandoned seventeenth century, where you can see the patron saint of Valencia.

One of the most emblematic buildings of Valencia is the Lonja de la Seda, fifteenth-century Gothic building, for commercial contracts and located in the Market District. La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia has such beautiful rooms and the Board for Procurement, with spiral columns over 17 feet high.

In the same neighborhood is the Central Market, 1928, Plaza Redonda (Clot) and the churches of the fourteenth century Saint Johns, Saint Nicholas XIV - XVII and XVII Santa Catalina.

Valencia Tourism accurate time, since only in the city and much to see, such as the Generalitat, the Palace of Benicarló, currently houses the Valencian Parliament, or Palace of Bailiwick (the Provincial Council of Valencia.

Another representative of the Valencia neighborhood is the neighborhood of San Francisco, where we can enjoy one of the most imaginative of the Baroque Valencia, El Palacio del Marques de Dos Aguas, now the headquarters of the National Museum of Ceramics. And near the same, the University of Valencia fifteenth-century Chapel of the Patriarch and the Royal College of Corpus Christi in Valencia, where we can see pictures of Ribalta, El Greco and Caravaggio.

Besides the above, Valencia has many more treasures that we will see in more detail such as the Mercado de Colón, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, Valencia Town Hall, classic of the seventeenth century, the church Assumption, with its magnificent baroque facade, the church of the Blood, wonderful Gothic building.