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The Region of Valencia has a great artistic and cultural legacy. From rock art dating back millennia to countless castles and galleries displaying contemporary works, our destination will plunge you into a world of artistry and history.
Cultural tourism in the Region of Valencia has been formed by centuries of history. Across the destination, you’ll have the opportunity to see ancient paintings depicting the collection of honey dating to between 9000 and 1400 BC and a contemporary art museum housed in a Gothic palace in Vilafamés. Use our searcher to discover museums, cultural tours, festivals and much, much more.
There is a wealth of cultural tourism on offer in the Region of Valencia, in part because we have been the home of great artists who have left behind enduring literary, architectural, sculptural and artistic legacies.
Our land has been inhabited by ancient civilisations that built countless towers, walls and castles. We’ve kept alive oral traditions that are part of our DNA and every week a session of the Water Tribunal is still held in València.
The footprints of dinosaurs, dry stone constructions protected by UNESCO as well as Immaterial Heritage like Las Fallas, La Mare de Déu de la Salut Festival in Algemesí and Misteri d’Elx: we are a destination that breathes culture.
Use our searcher to find cultural activities in the provinces of Castellón, Valencia and Alicante and start planning getaways to soak up the culture. Experience festivals with long traditions, wander around fascinating archaeological museums, enjoy listening to our bands and feel our palpable cultural legacy and the spark that inspires avant-garde artists.
Departure by bus from Alicante or Valencia, arrival in Villena and guided visit to the Castle, visit the treasure in the Museum of the City and visit the old town. Visit to the Francisco Gómez winery and tasting of five wines and two AOVES accompanied by local bread, local sausage, cheese and snacks. Tapas lunch at the winery.
A route during which we are going to discover where silk comes from and why it is so important in Valencia. Itinerary of 4 days. Transfer and accommodation.
Guided tour of the historic center with a visit to the silk college, Silk Market (UNESCO) and Valencian silk store. Silk painting workshop - enjoying art, ceramics, colors and silk ... Afterwards, transfer to the Valencian garden to eat traditional Valencian paella and enjoy horseback riding and visit the barraka - traditional house. Airport transfer.
Through this route we will discover the difference between graffiti and street art or urban art. We will visit the old neighborhood of El Carmen, discovering art in its streets and the different artists who have participated, giving the necessary keys to interpret their work. At the end of the tour, you will be able to recognize the works on the different walls of the city.
Are you coming to discover them? Do you dare to live the experience?
Mariano Benlliure will be the guideline of our visit and with him we will tour the city of Valencia paying special attention not only to the city but also to the sculptures that decorate it. It is a time when the institutions spent a lot of money on public works and sculpture is generally manifested in their squares. Large avenues, groves, parks, gardens and monumental sculptures that will guide our walk through the city.
Do you want to step back in time?
Alpuente is known for the numerous and important fossil sites with bones and tracks of dinosaurs found in the area. In the Paleontological Museum of Alpuente you can see part of a skeleton of a large sauropod dinosaur and a good number of fossils of other dinosaurs and other organisms that lived at the end of the Jurassic, during the era of these giant reptiles. With one of our workshops, you will also have the experience of feeling for a while as true paleontologists, discovering how these researchers of the past work. You can complete your getaway with a Paleontological Rally and a visit (with or without a guide) to the Corcolilla dinosaur footprints site, with more than a hundred ichnites, and/or the Cañada París site, with a sauropod dinosaur track, the only place equipped to receive visitors in the Region of Valencia with ichnites of this type.
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Discover and live all the family-friendly activities that await and make your trip to the Region of Valencia the adventure of the year.
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