How many days do you need in Valencia?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Valencia.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Valencia · 3 days Spain
Best time: March to June and September to October.
The old townDay 1
⛪9:30 AMValencia Cathedral
Romanesque, Gothic and baroque in one building, holding a chalice claimed as the Holy Grail, with the Miguelete bell tower to climb.
🚶 ~6 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
🍽️12:00 PMCentral Market
A 1928 modernista iron-and-glass hall, still the working food market rather than a food court.
🚶 ~2 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 347 ft
📍2:00 PMLa Lonja de la Seda
The fifteenth-century silk exchange opposite the market, with a hall of spiralling stone columns.
The City of Arts and SciencesDay 2
📍10:00 AMCity of Arts and Sciences
Calatrava’s white complex in the old riverbed: opera house, planetarium, science museum and aquarium.
🚶 ~4 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
📍2:00 PMOceanografic
Europe’s largest aquarium, laid out as a series of marine environments under separate domes.
🚶 ~40 min · 🚗 ~5 min · 1.5 mi
🌳6:00 PMTuria Gardens
Walk the park back toward the centre under the old bridges that now cross a garden instead of a river.
Beach and the lagoonDay 3
🌳10:00 AMMalvarrosa Beach
A wide city beach with a long promenade, reached by tram in about twenty minutes.
🚶 ~9 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.3 mi
📍1:30 PMEl Cabanyal
The old fishermen’s quarter behind the beach, tiled house fronts in a grid of low streets.
🚗 ~32 min · 9.1 mi
🌳5:00 PMAlbufera Natural Park
The freshwater lagoon and rice paddies south of the city where paella originated, best at sunset from a flat-bottomed boat.
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