Valencia Plaza del Mercado Tours and Activities

Cycle from Valencia city to the beach on this small-group bike tour. Your guide will lead the way, which means you can focus on the scenery and pedaling. End up at the beach for a drink and a snack while discussing Valencian culture and history and asking any questions. A small group of just eight people gives you plenty of personalized attention.

Dive into history to discover why Valencia is blessed with abundance since antiquity. While marching through the city and its colourful details you´ll disclose how Valencia flourished to be the bread basket of Spain. Travel through centuries to see how our city developed to become the inviting and fruitful city that it is today. Return to nature and unearth why both Valencia as the Albufera lagoon share a common history. Explore the source of our bountiful countryside and relive the daily life of farmers, fishermen and hunters in the royal lands. A trip by boat on the Albufera Lagoon will free you to reconnect with your roots. While enjoying the breeze on your faces, you will get to know even more secrets about this region.

Step back in time on a visit to Valencia’s golden age in the 15th and 16th centuries during this history and architecture-themed walking excursion. Go beyond beach and plates of paella as you learn about Valencia’s role in Spain’s Aragon Kingdom and visit age-old attractions like the Serranos Towers and ‘Ayuntamiento’ (city hall).

The street art scene is strong in Valencia, and on this walking tour with a local guide, you’ll discover murals of all sizes by both Spanish and international artists. Learn about the different techniques used by street artists and discover the hidden messages behind public works of art. Tours are available in several languages.

Explore Barcelona like a local on a 3-hour private walking tour of the city with a small group of up to eight people. Discover the city's turbulent history and thriving modern culture as you wander the narrow streets of El Raval, San Antoni, and Poble Sec — three neighborhoods rarely braved by travelers yet brimming with local flavor.

Valencia, early 20th century. Don Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is at the height of his career: his works are world famous and his adaptations to the cinema are having great success. The city of Valencia turns with him and pays him an entire week of tributes. But he also faces political failures and the loss of great friends. A different proposal for those looking for things to do in Valencia. A route that brings the figure of Blasco Ibáñez, both to visitors, and to those inhabitants of Valencia who want to discover the history of their city. Through the anecdotes of a lifetime we will meet Don Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and his great friends: Mariano Benlliure and Joaquín Sorolla. We will talk about all its facets: editor, writer, and, above all, the adventurous Blasco Ibáñez who founded colonies and survived gun duels. Valencia through the eyes of his most illustrious chronicler.

Valencia is a vibrant city full of life. It was also in the Middle Ages. Nobles, merchants of the Silk Road, serranos from the outskirts strolled through its streets ... A cultural amalgam that gave our urban fabric a variety of colors. But Valencia also had a dark part linked to executions and practices closely related to the inquisition and torture. The death penalty was in force in the city until the mid-19th century. The large squares we are walking through today: Almoina, the Mercado ... have witnessed for the longest periods the cruelest torture and the bloodiest deaths. Do you dare to know all these stories with us? On the tour we will know the story of an illustrious doctor who was tried and executed by the Holy Inquisition for unconventional practices. Innocent or guilty? Participants in the Hangman's Route may make their own personal judgment.

On this route we will see the essential monuments in Valencia, to know its most emblematic places and its most charming streets. We will start in the Plaza de la Almoina and then we will go to the Serrano Towers, passing through Plaza de la Virgen and the Benicarló Palace, known as the Borja Palace. After that, we will go to Palau de la Generalitat, we will walk in Caballeros street, and then, we will go into the Central Market and the ancient Silk Market, which it is a world heritage site. The route will end at Santa Catalina, in front of the Cathedral. We wait for you to fall in love with Valencia as we already are. See you soon !!

In Valencia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a great transformative process was experienced. The great avenues that emerge in the wake of the demolition of the Christian walls of 1865 will be dotted with buildings in which modernism will coexist with Neomudéjar, Neomedieval, Neo-Byzantine or Neo-Baroque architectures, also incorporating decorative elements linked to local tradition: floral motifs, fruit, marine, or clothing and own iconography. The greatest exponent will be the Regional Exhibition of 1909.