Market · Valencian Community
Mercado Central, Valencia
The Mercado Central (Mercat Central) is Valencia's central food market, a modernista market hall opened in 1928 on the square it shares with the Lonja de la Seda.
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Valencia
Valencia (València) is the capital city of the Valencian Community in Spain, crossed by the Turia Garden in the old bed of the River Turia. XTOUR maps places inside the city, such as its cathedral, the Lonja de la Seda, the Central Market and the Museum of Fine Arts, at their own locations.
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Historic site · Valencian Community
La Lonja de la Seda
La Lonja de la Seda (Llotja de la Seda) is a late-Gothic former merchants' exchange in the centre of Valencia, built between the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Church · Valencian Community
Valencia Cathedral
Valencia Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral church of Valencia, whose bell tower is the Miguelete (Micalet).
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Gallery · Valencian Community
Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia
The Museu de Belles Arts de València is the Generalitat Valenciana's fine-arts museum in Valencia, on Calle San Pío V beside the Turia Garden.
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Park · Valencian Community
Turia Gardens
The Turia Garden (Jardí del Túria) is a linear urban park in the former bed of the River Turia, running for more than nine kilometres across Valencia.
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Guides to Valencia
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Travel Guide01
Spain's co-official languages and the place names on signs
Spain has one state language and several co-official regional ones, and the laws on place names differ from region to region. This explainer sets out what the Constitution and the statutes of autonomy say, which form of a place name is official in Catalonia, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country and the Valencian Community, and what that means for the names of the cities XTOUR covers.
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Travel Guide02
Spain travel guide: choosing regions and city bases
XTOUR plans Spain around city bases rather than regions: Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Córdoba, Valencia, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Palma and Málaga. This guide explains how Spain's autonomous communities relate to those bases, which community each base is in, and which XTOUR guide to read next for each.
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Travel Guide03
Spanish food guide: regions, DOP labels and how to read an Iberian ham label
Spanish food is regional, and the labels on its best-known products are legal categories, not marketing. This guide explains what DOP and IGP mean, how Spain's Iberian ham standard uses four coloured seals and where Spain's own tourism board describes them differently, what the Manchego cheese DOP requires, and which dishes official sources tie to which regions.
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Travel Guide04
Alcázar, alcazaba, mezquita, seu, lonja, mirador: Spanish heritage words explained
Six words on Spanish heritage signs name kinds of building, not particular places: an alcázar is a fortified royal residence, an alcazaba a fortified enclosure, a mezquita a mosque, a seu a bishop's seat or cathedral, a lonja a merchants' exchange and a mirador a place to look out from. The meanings come from the Institut d'Estudis Catalans dictionary and the monuments' own operators, and two buildings that share a word in their names are often run by different bodies with different histories.
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Travel Guide05
Tapas customs in Spain: free tapas, pintxos and how official sources describe them
Tapas are small portions served with a drink, pintxos are the Basque Country's version, and whether one comes free depends on the city and the bar. Spain's national tourism board and San Sebastián's tourism office describe each custom in their own words, their pages disagree on some details, and XTOUR keeps their wording rather than generalising.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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