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                <title>Turia park</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[One of best things about Valencia is the empty riverbed of the Turia, which has been turned into an 8km-long, twisting park through the middle of the city, with a lagoon, gardens and playing fields plus the amazing City of Arts and Sciences, an architectural wonderland. <br><br>You can cycle from the old town and through cycle paths in the park and on to the revamped port, seeing everything in half a day. Hire bikes (including tandems) at Cycletour, next to the fab Gulliver’s playground in the park, or in town at the excellent Orange bikes.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cafe's Valiente, Plaza de la Virgen</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I've lived in Valencia for six months now and this is one of my favourite places to go for a coffee. <br><br>Choose a table outside in the sun and you can look at the view of the Neptuno fountain and the cathedral, it's lovely. <br><br>The cafes around the square can charge a higher than average price for a coffee but this one doesn't and you also get the best view of the square.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Peniscola</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A long day trip from Valencia, but worth the effort. Why it is such an effort is anyone’s guess, but this is not straightforward. <br><br>The trains run at slightly odd hours, and when you get to the nearest stop (Benicarlo) there’s no information or even a bus. It leaves instead from a stop a good 15-minute walk away in the town. By the time the bus gets within view of this medieval walled city that juts out into the crystal blue Mediterranean, however, you’ll forget all that hassle. <br><br>Take as much time as you can to wander through its narrow cobbled streets, take in the views from the castle, eat lunch in one of its many restaurants, have a swim or a sunbathe. Just leave enough time to do the bus/walk/train back to the city.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mullets</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[After living here for the past 6 months I have discovered that Valencia offers some of the best mullet viewing in Europe, if not the whole world.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Turia river gardens</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hire bikes for a morning (try Orange Bikes at Calle Santa Teresa, 8, in the Carmen) and take a leisurely ride though the Turia river gardens – it’s too far to walk the full 10km length. The river Turia, which used to flow here, was diverted around the city after a flood in 1957 that killed dozens of people. For a while, the city authorities debated whether to turn the dry riverbed, still with its grand bridges and embankments, into a giant car park. Thankfully, they opted for a more environmentally friendly option. Today, “el río” is full of beautiful and varied sights, from landscaped gardens to leaping fountains, childrens’ adventure playgrounds, grassy picnic areas and civic spaces such as sports fields and exhibition areas. Kids will also love the little white train that carries visitors to and from the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, at the river gardens’ end. (Resist the urge, if you have one, to take a pony and trap from the Plaza de la Virgen around the old town. Exposed for hours in the suffocating summer heat as they wait for punters, the horses are often visibly distressed, and you probably will be too after trundling around the dark and narrow streets of the old town inhaling petrol fumes.)]]></description>
                
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                <title>Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The blazing white, sea creature-like buildings designed by golden-boy local architect Santiago Calatrava. Housing the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences), these futuristic constructions rise up at the very end of the Turia river gardens, surrounded by pools of cooling turquoise water. The almost-finished Palau de les Artes (to be a state-of-the-art concert hall) is half-ship, half-sea snail, apparently in full sail/crawl down the dry Turia. Just beyond, the curved, spiky science museum squats like a nesting sea urchin. In the distance you can see the undulating blue curves of the Oceanogràfic (oceanarium).]]></description>
                
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