City: Valencian Country
Top Things to do in Valencian Country
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What to do and see in Valencian Country, Spain: The Best Points of Interest & Landmarks
The Valencian Community, or the Valencian Country, is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid with more than 4.9 million inhabitants. Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian peninsula. It borders with Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south. The Valencian Community consists of three provinces which are Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.
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1. Misteri D'Elx
2. Sierra de Bernia y Ferrer
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By knmdurango - Durango, United States
We started the hike at the parking area near Restaurante Serra de Bèrnia on CV749. We have done this hike before as a clockwise circuit, climbing up the NE side of the ridge to the natural tunnel at Forat, through the tunnel to the south side of the ridge, with a return to the start via Fort Bèrnia toward the west end of the ridge. The climb to the tunnel is steep, and in winter can be quite slippery. Because of this, we opted to start the loop in a counter-clockwise direction to the Fort, and returned the same way. This made for a very pleasant outing into the spectacular scenery of Serra de Bèrnia.
3. Plaza del Ayuntamiento
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2,028 reviews
The palatial Ayuntamiento (Town Hall) of Valencia dominates the square, and its bells chime out the hours. Surrounding the plaza are other buildings from the city's golden age, such as the Correos (the main post office). In the center of the plaza, a fountain is surrounded by flower stalls with all the colors, sizes, varieties imagineable. This is a good starting point from which to visit Valencia's old quarter or today's most fashionable shops.
Reviewed By northants90 - Northampton, United Kingdom
My favourite part of VLC. The city hall and surrounding buildings are just beautiful and a real city feature. Lots of paces to stop and refresh and watch the world pass you by. A great place to visit and viewing is free. Check out the square as there are often events and festivals/fiestas there too.
4. Plaza del Mercado (Placa del Mercat)
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,494 reviews
In this still bustling plaza you will find three of the must-visit buildings in the city, including the Mercat Central.
Reviewed By GeysirGal - Surrey, United Kingdom
This big open plaza takes its name of course from the indoor market which is the centrepiece, flanked by marble steps and with a huge array of all kinds of delicious things to consume. The Valencia card entitles you to a free drink and tapas from a variety of different sellers - choose which one appeals to you the most, there are several avaialble. The plaza itself is busy and bustling as you would expect - close to both the tourist district in the old part of town and the more modern part of the city towards the main railway station. A great place for getting to know the city and for people watching.
5. Mirador Monte Toix
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 204 reviews
Reviewed By BVI1954 - Almaty, Kazakhstan
My tips would be: go on foot but take a lot of water - just avoid very hot and sunny days. I was in Calpe in October, 2019. One pretty cloudy afternoon I decided it was time for me to take a good view of the town and places around it from above. It took me about 1,5 hours to get to walk to the top from the Iglesia Antigua in the Old Town. The walk was not physically difficult – I live in Almaty, Kazakhstan and a hike in the mountains is like a walk in the park in some cities, but it’s pretty tedious for most of the way for you have to walk between luxury villas behind monotonous high stone fences with occasional luxury cars superciliously passing you by trying to make as much dust and roar as they can – at least that was my impression, but then maybe I was just fastidious for not being able to stay away from such signs of civilization (pretty naïve of me, too). On the other hand, you can always get back at those luxury villas – at least those on your left-hand side as you walk up – for they are all open to your curiosity as you pass them by – maybe hence the reaction of the car owners. I am not sure I would like to live in a place worth a few hundred thousand (maybe over 1 million) euros open for peeping, gaping or staring into - except for the inside of the house - to all the idling passers-by even if they don’t have any field-glasses nor sit on the road side above your swimming pool where you wanted to have a few moments to yourself. All the way I kept wondering what were those 3 metre high stone fences for if one could easily view the whole of your property from the road above. Actually, some of the swimming pools are so close to the road that on a hot summer afternoon one could be easily tempted into jumping into them from above – just to refresh oneself. Well, I was on top at about 3 p.m. and it looked more and more like rain, maybe due to that for a while the place was all to myself. I need hardly say – it’s been done thousands of times before in all tourist guides etc – that the views from Monte Toix are really magnificent; you can have a good picture of Calpe, its surroundings and more importantly – of the sea. It seems to me that if you are on the shore the sea doesn’t show how great it is, especially on a sunny quiet day, but if you look upon it from above it really looks awesome. Boundless, so that the town and all its neighbourhood seem to shrink before it. I believe that Monte Toix is really one of the places one must go to while in Calpe – and if possible – on foot, I don’t think I would have half enjoyed the views and the visit itself had I come by car. I walked another 200 metres or so towards Altea (away from Calpe) and but for the rain might have tried the path to see how far it would take me, but then changed my mind in favour of some lunch. I came back to the top with some benches over there and decided I had deserved a small picnick. Besides the water (at least 1l per person is absolutely required if you walk up, better more) I had some excellent Spanish brandy (Magno, I believe) so much underestimated in the world in favour of its French neighbour’s cognac/Armagnac) and no less wonderful Spanish 50% cocoa dark chocolate with whole almonds and I just started to enjoy them all when a strong 4-wheel drive stopped about 100m down the road and a man with a serious looking dog (Alsatian I believe) appeared from it – both looking strangely native to the place – kind of security maybe. I fortunately asked him if one could walk from that place to Altea or near it (there is a beautiful Russian Orthodox Church between Altea and Calpe but they told me I could only get there by car – which I didn’t want to get at all), he told me I couldn’t, which saved me maybe a couple of hours of a tiresome and fruitless exercise. Before taking my leave I drank a drop of Magno to Monte Toix and the views I had from there and began the descent happy that the rain had started on my way back and not the other way around. I decided that under the rain it would be wiser to trust the Android navigator rather then my own eyes. I did use it going up, but only to make sure that it agreed with my eyes and the road signs. I wasn’t so lucky on the way back. For some reason the navigator told me to turn left when I was sure the way back to Maryvilla (the urbanizacion between Calpe proper and the Monte Toix) was to my right. Well, I don’t know why but I decided to follow the unnatural instinct (I am a rather old man – past 60 when I was there, so for me the navigators and other gadgets still seem to be less natural than my own eyes, though I believe the younger generation would see it the other way about) and followed the navigator. Well, I wasn’t lost or anything, maybe actually the route proposed by the phone was even shorter than the one I had used before, but as I went down, I found myself on the motorway between Calpe and Benidorm – N332. It’s a very good road for all sorts of vehicles, including huge trucks and buses, but absolutely unfit for pedestrians. In some places it had no pavement or foot-path so that I had to walk on the carriage-way with all those huge buses and lorries rushing by at 80 or more km/hour. If you do go to Monte Toix on foot, don’t follow the navigator if it takes you to that highway – better follow the winding road among the villas – they begin to look tiny and friendly compared with the monsters of the highway. I left it as soon as I had a chance – after about 10 minute walk along it – and turned into a maze of winding small streets between still more villas even though less luxurious and standing on a flat ground (Canuta Baja is the name of the “Urbanizacion” I believe). It all looked fine after the highway venture, but the rain was getting stronger and the streets were a real maze, not just metaphorically speaking, and absolutely empty. A couple of nice ladies doing something in the patios did give me some advice as to how to walk back to Calpe (the idea of getting there without a car seemed a folly to them), but still it took me nearly 2 hours to find myself in the same place where I started my upwards journey. That not to count the time for getting down to that maze, twice the time I had spent in going up. Well, the reward was that I entered the town in a place that looked weirdly Spanish and un-tourist like – close to the Old Town (Casco Antiguo) with tangerine trees along the streets with fruit rotting on them and beneath because of the humid autumn, never saw such a waste of the New Year symbol of my childhood. It was dusk when I got back to Calpe proper, I was all wet in spite of the pretty good coat for rough weather and tired. Fortunately, I remembered the Café Bar Sport that was nearby and went there for something to fortify my fallen spirits and buy some honey, too. If you care for real home-made honey, not the stuff they sell under the name in supermarkets, the Café Bar Sport is the only place in Calpe to buy it. Isn’t it funny that in a place with so many real natural wonders like Monte Toix, Ifach, el Paseo Ecologico to Benissa with its tiny and cozy coves, Salinas, etc, there is only one place where one can buy some real honey!
6. Mirador Cronistas de Espana
7. Parroquia Nuestra Senora del Consuelo
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 473 reviews
Reviewed By aaron2510 - Oxford, United Kingdom
A charming and impressive church which is well worth the walk through Altea's winding streets and passageways.
8. Balcon del Mediterraneo
9. Placa del Castell
10. Faro de l'Albir
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 397 reviews
Reviewed By Wetravelalot12
The lighthouse is located in the Parc Natural de la Serra Gelada.This is a 5km round trip walk from the car park to the light house. Parking is free. There are other off shoots from the route which you can take. There is a path to take you down to a small rocky bay. Another path to take you to a viewing area, and another one to take you to an area where they did mining many years ago. The main path to the lighthouse is all tarmac so we saw people with buggies a few runners and a few cyclists. The path is on a small incline all the way up, but then you get the down hill part coming back. There is a toilet at the car park, but none en route or at the top where the light house is. Take your own drinks too as there is no where to purchase any on the way. The views along the pathway are stunning and provide a way of looking back over the bay to Albir and out to sea. The route also has a few information boards along the way for you to stop and read. Near the beginning of the route, there is a picnic area.
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