Three places where start to know Valencia

Valencia is Known by its futuristic structures an important historic helmet; it’s an ideal place to make tourism. It has with an important number of monuments where are the city’s history, natural spaces in addition to incredible beaches and restaurants where it’s possible taste the tipical Valencian paella.   

When you arrive, it’s possible that you feel overwhelmed for don’t know what site go first. For this reason, today, we will introduce you three of the most important sites of Valencia, to you can start your route with the right feet. 

City of the arts and Sciences: This wonderful creation from architect Santiago Calatrava has different edifices that over the years, it has become in important icons from the city. It’s an important center of culture and scientist that it’s conformed by this spaces:

• Oceanogràfic Aquarium

• Hemisfèric Digital Cinema in 3D

• Sciences Museum, where are made surprising science and technology expositions

• Palace of Arts Reina Sofia: If you are music lover, you can go to this place where presents operas, zarzuelas or symphonies in October and November.

• Umbracle: It’s a garden where life a lot of plants and contemporary sculptures

• Ágora: an edifice where it makes all type of events

• Golden weir bridge: it’s on the old channel of Turia River, it can be crossed by car or on foot.

Central Market: In this place there are all flavors of Mediterranean. In the 300 stalls are the freshest products of the city including fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, shellfish, nuts and even spices. If you are kitchen lover, here you will find the ingredients that you need to prepared the most delicious kitchen recipes.

It imposing architecture don’t stop to surprise you, it is composed by different columns inspired in the Eiffel Tower, also from attractive stained glass windows that gives more beauty to the place.

Also in this market, there is Central Bar, where people can taste the best tapas, snacks and drinks. Each creation it’s prepared by chef Ricard Camarena.

Turia Gardens: when you want to have a quiet time, this is the right place, it is auspicious to exercise practice or enjoy of nature. This is one of biggest park of Spain bounded by both Bioparc and Cabecera Park to the west and the City of Arts and Sciences to the east.

In Turia Gardens there are 18 bridges made with different architect styles and in different epochs such as the bridge of San José, Serranos, Trinidad, by Norman Foster and many more. Also, at this park is possible to see a surprising vegetation established by palm trees, orange trees, rose bushes, pines or aromatic plants.

It old riverbed joins with important points of the city as Serrano’s Towers, Beautiful Arts Museum and Valencian Institute of modern art.