10 reasons to fall in love with Valencia

Valencia is going to flood its streets this year with 100 design actions of all kinds to celebrate its designation as World Design Capital. All the more reason to enjoy new spaces by the sea in the Mediterranean city or in the pedestrian heart of a pulsating millenary city that walks and pedals like never before while recovering the splendor of its patrimonial past. These are 10 essential stops to fall in love with her.

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Sails and Vents

It is a verse from the great 15th century poet Ausiàs March, the name of the futuristic building in the port of Valencia, designed by David Chipperfield and Fermín Vázquez, and the headquarters of the organization of Valencia World Design Capital 2022. It will add to its varied gastronomic and leisure offer, and its magnificent views, a program full of events with some of the most prestigious designers. This enclave is also a good starting point to visit the old poblats marítims from the city and enter the neighborhood of El Cabanyal, whose popular modernism struggles to defeat abandonment with new premises and renovations not always at the desired pace.

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Wake up in front of the sea

The hotel boutique Balandret has established itself on the front line of Las Arenas beach, paying homage to the famous painting The sloop (1909), in which Sorolla painted that same sea. The tiles, the esparto grass, the baskets for collecting oranges or the jars are details of a decoration that stands out for its luminosity.

Cocktail and gilda

Still in the district maritime, the Great Martinez has recently opened its doors to offer cocktails and other drinks in a very special atmosphere in an old renovated shop, with light snacks

Paella, but with baked rice

In a territory that last November declared the paella of Cultural Interest can not miss the rice. Among a very varied and numerous offer, the oven-baked rice paella stands out for its originality and forcefulness, which unites two typical dishes of Valencian gastronomy. The Lavoe restaurant, next to the stately Calle de la Paz, embroiders it.

A resurrected kiosk

In the heart of the city, a newspaper kiosk has been reinvented in the Plaza del Doctor Collado. and now, with the name of News & Coffee offers excellent coffees and design magazines under the nearby and hypnotic gargoyles of La Lonja.

Modern Classic

Yes, it appears in all the guides, but how not to mention the spectacular and modernist Mercat Central of fresh produce and full of decorative allusions to the garden and

the gardens of Valencia , and more so now that its entire heritage environment is being pedestrianized.

Things from here

La Postalera is far from the typical souvenirs to single out the souvenirs with good taste, as well as the store Buenavista, already in the night-owl neighborhood of Carmen, brings together ingenious and practical objects native design.

The Bakalao Route ‘revised’

The bad fame of the route of nightclubs that alternated so as not to close on weekends in the decade of the eighties and nineties will be reviewed from the point of view of its graphic design by the consolidated Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM).Graphic route. The sound design of València

can be visited from 3 from March to June 12.

Out of route

Beyond the most touristic neighborhoods of the city, such as El Carmen or the cool

By bike to the lake

The old Turia riverbed, converted into a garden, crosses Valencia and leads to a bike lane whose route is full of contrasts and attractions. The path runs through the open seams of the outskirts, with the port cranes in the background, and through the surviving remnants of the orchard until it advances between pine trees and the El Saler sea and reaches the natural park of Lago de la Albufera.

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