The GoToValencia.com travel guide to Valencia

Welcome to the GoToValencia.com guide to the city of Valencia. Valencia is fast becoming a major competitor in the Spanish Tourism market. Valencia is now challenging Madrid and Barcelona in popularity, especially for weekend breaks. Valencia has the advantage of not being too overcrowded like its larger contemporaries, while still managing to cram a huge amount of top class hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs into its relatively small city centre. More and more direct flights are arriving to this beautiful city, considered by many (including this writer who is a resident) to be the jewel in the crown of the Costa del Azahar.

With its average temperature of 18°C and 300 days of sunshine a year, Valencia is an ideal holiday destination catering for the best in cultural, tourist and sporting activities in the relaxing backdrop of the sunny Mediterranean. One of the many highlights of the city is the beautifully restored riverbed of the River Turia. This 7 kilometre stretch of park is home to numerous playing fields, cycle paths and leisure activities.

Valencia is host to the heats and finals of the America's Cup races in 2007. The city is busy preparing itself for the events with numerous ambitious and futuristic construction projects. The famous City of Arts and Sciences is a marvelous new addition the the city's landscape.

Valencia distinguishes itself from most other tourist destinations with its combination of traditional old city charm in the Carmen area, beach life in the splendid el Saler and Malvarrosa districts and modern prosperity and economic ambition in the chic shopping areas of Colón and the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.

So, you will find contained within the pages of this travel guide all the information you need to book flights, reserve accommodation, eat in the best restaurants, visit the most interesting sights and experience the beauty and wonder that is on display in Valencia.