PORTADA INGLES.pdf 1 3/12/15 8:36 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K PORTADA INGLES.pdf 2 3/12/15 8:36 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K © Agència Valenciana del Turisme, 2015 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 1 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 2 Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias. Valencia. 39° 27’ 17.82” N 0° 21’ 10.88” W 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 3 02 04 The Region of Valencia 06 Emotion and leisure 12 Several destinations, just one heartbeat 22 The beach is life 26 Cities with their own style 40 Diverse and plural 42 Visions 52 Nature 70 Culture 86 Gastronomy 98 People who love festivals 106 Sports 114 Adventure 118 Health 120 Shopping 124 The night 128 Tourism portal for the Region of Valencia 130 Tourist Info Network 133 Practical information 136 Tourist map 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 4 Lonja. Valencia. 39° 28’ 28.09” N 0° 22’ 41.45” W This is an inviting town that loves its traditions and has been open to tourism for decades. In the Region of Valencia, receiving the traveller is a duty of courtesy that has become a profession, carried out with an informal style. Like a surprising, large and diverse interior, in the areas that border the Region of Valencia offers to its kaleidoscope, the Region of Valencia Aragón and Castilla-la Mancha. visitors. For thousands of years, is spread along the shore of the Changing and renewed, full of expansive and cordial people, hard- Spanish Mediterranean. It is an charming sites, the Region of working and festival-loving, attentive to inviting and sunny territory with Valencia hopes to capture the agriculture, industry and commerce, open and active people. It is a land traveller’s senses. have lived between the generous soil that, bordering the sea for over 500 Costa Blanca, Benidorm, València Terra i and a blue sky that stays clear most of kilometres, changes its landscape Mar, Castellón Mediterráneo and the year. This is the famous land of rice and becomes mountainous in the Valencia. These are the tourist areas that and the fertile orange tree orchards. But 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 5 04 - 05 Promenade of la Explanada. Alicante. El Fadrí Tower. Castellón de la Plana. 39° 28’ 28.09” N 0° 22’ 41.45” W 39° 59’ 10.01” N 0° 2’ 14.93” W it is also the land of olive oil and wine, as wish, in this land the tourists soon well as fruit and almond trees that look become travellers; and at once they out to the sea. become a guest that is treated as if they Surprises are still possible in the Region were in their own home. In the Region of Valencia. Here, discovering the of Valencia, the experience of travelling landscape is an adventure that turns the is always a safe bet. Rock fortresses and trip into an unforgettable personal thermal springs, solitude and jubilation, experience. As inviting as they are lovers sea and mountain, sun and soil: the of their own traditions and roots, the ranges of colours and tastes are always Valencian people have been open to open in the four tourist areas of the tourism for decades, a duty of courtesy Region of Valencia. Because this is a land that has become a profession carried of contrasts, of flavours and aromas, of out with affection and an informal style. complementary and varied places. It does not matter where we go. From north to south, going wherever they Benidorm. 38° 32’ 3.14” N 0° 7’ 49.47” W 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 6 The roar of motors or the silent Emotion advance of the prow on the waves. Tight sails or vibrating accelerations. In the Region of Valencia, the main and leisure sporting events, media spectacles that summon thousands of people are a phenomenon of our century that serve to attract thousands of tourists as well as to generate dynamics that spread 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 7 06 - 07 Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias. 39° 27’ 23.13” N 0° 21’ 12,61”W our reality in a globalised world. worldwide dissemination of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias to Thousands of people have visited the milestones of Valencian tourism. Terra Mítica, from the Oceanogràfic to Region of Valencia because of these But the Region of Valencia has many the Circuito de Velocidad Ricardo large events. other attractions and incentives. They Tormo in Cheste, each year the The America’s Cup, the Castelló Golf are the large infrastructures of leisure, Valencian lands offer unexpected Masters that took place in Castellón culture and sports that are capable of incentives. and the start of the Volvo Ocean Race attracting thousands of visitors and from Alicante have been specific turning the traveller’s experience into events which have led to the an unforgettable adventure. From the 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 8 Circuit Ricardo Tormo. 39° 29’ 5.34” N 0° 37’ 34.51” W Club Excitement in Cheste The first Valencian commitment to Comunitat Valenciana. The annual and fields at Cheste to see its stars. highly competitive events took circuit of world motorcycle racing, But the Cheste Circuit, after these place at the Cheste Circuit. with all the famous Spanish racers, autumn events, is still active. For over Dedicated to the great Valencian close its long run in Cheste every 300 days a year there are training, champion Ricardo Tormo, each year. Thousands of fans come from all trials, techniques, rehearsals, concerts autumn it is the setting for the final over Spain and liven up the town’s and every type of activity. trial of the World Motorcycle Racing streets and even Valencia. Over Championship: the Gran Premio de la 100,000 spectators meet in the stands 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 9 Club de Golf Ifach. Benissa. Alicante. 38° 41’ 15.04” N 0° 6’ 16.15” E 08 - 09 Golf and tennis The international golf and tennis demands. In 2008, the Castelló Masters This new sports form is an important elites met on the courses and courts tournament brought together, near the event aimed at transmitting the external of the Region of Valencia to sea, not only Sergio García, who started image of the Region of Valencia. The participate in the tournaments his sports career there, but also the best exclusive tennis circuit also is made up reserved for the great stars. The Spanish and European figures of the of Rotterdam, Dubai, Acapulco, informative impact that these events moment. Memphis, Barcelona, Washington, had the world over highlights the The Agora of the Ciudad de las Artes Peking, Tokyo and Basel, among other attractiveness of a golf course network y las Ciencias of Valencia hosted the cities. where travellers can satisfy their highest 500 ATP tennis tournament, since 2009. 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 10 Veles e Vents. Valencia Port. 39° 27’ 36.19” N 0° 19’ 25.20” W Biop Sails and winds Between 2003 and 2010, the old dock best sporting and leisure infrastructures Alicante to compete in the Volvo of the Valencian port was the setting to house every kind of competition, Ocean Race. for the 32nd and 33rd edition of the regatta and nautical event. The weather Alicante is home to the Volvo Ocean America’s Cup, the oldest sports conditions are excellent for nautical Race Museum. This is the first museum competition in the world and the most sports and its strategic location has to offer visitors the chance to recreate prestigious among nautical sports. The turned the Marina Real Juan Carlos I of the extreme challenge faced by the port of Valencia changed, the building Valencia into a benchmark in the crews aboard the boats participating in Veles e Vents was created, which is now European Mediterranean. the Volvo Ocean Race, an exceptional a new reference point in the city. In October 2008, the world’s most round the world yacht race. Valencia is opened to the sea with the intrepid navigators left the port of 001-055 Turisme ING.qxp_Maquetación 1 3/12/15 8:12 Página 11 Bioparc. Valencia. 39° 28’ 40.57” N 0° 24’ 41.80” W 10 - 11 Animals and myths from ancient times Valencia has two facilities dedicated spectators can closely observe, with through intrepid installations of risk to land and sea wildlife that are complete safety, the life of dozens of and adventure. The most exciting roller leaders in Europe. They are the species of African wildlife. Provided coasters, the most intrepid and daring L'Oceanogràfic and the Bioparc. with great freedom and the most slides imaginable, compete with its The first, which is part of the Ciudad de favourable living conditions, elephants, visitors’ emotions. But in the Region of las Artes y las Ciencias, is one of the giraffes, rhinoceros, lions and every Valencia there are other many theme largest aquariums of marine water in kind of animal from the savannah parks, some of them dedicated to the world, where hundreds of species delight children and adults. water games. They are leisure coexist in five large circular pools.