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City Of Arts and Sciences

DOMINATING the expanse of the old Turia riverbed, stands an other-worldly complex composed of lagoons, lush gardens, the l’Oceanografic aquarium and marine park, the l’Hemisferic planetarium and the Palau de les Arts opera house (£36, for three-day pass to all main museums, cac.es).

Street Art of El Carmen

GIRLS with trees sprouting from their hair, decomposing drum kits, skeletons in pork pie hats . . . just some of the hundreds of examples of street art that line the walls of the El Carmen neighbourhood. Free walking tours Monday and Friday at 4pm (freetourvalencia.com).

Albufera National Park

IT’S just 45 minutes by bus from central Valencia to this wetland retreat, home to herons, egrets and raffish-looking flamingos. Try paellas made the old-school way with rabbits and snails in the 200-yearold restaurant of La Genuina (restauranteslagenuina.com) in nearby Pinedo. A vast bowl is just over £10.

Church of San Nicolás

PAINSTAKINGLY, restored after an attack by future dictator Franco, this church boasts an array of immense 17th-century Baroque frescos of Saint Nicholas designed by Antonio Palomino, also the personal painter to King Charles II (entry free, sannico lasvalencia.com).

Escape: Budget break

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