Valencia Green Routes
These routes were created to mark European Green Capital to help you discover the efforts and achievements of Valencia in three key areas: green infrastructure and biodiversity, sustainable mobility, and the recovery of public spaces and the preservation of a healthy food model.
With three specific itineraries and a fourth that provides a panoramic route with the most significant points, four routes are proposed to materialize and make visible the spirit of the European Green Capital, allowing it to be explored and visited.
Route 1 - The Green River
This route follows the nine kilometres of the Turia Garden as the finest example of the city’s expanding green infrastructure. You are in a 120-hectare climate oasis that stretches from west to east across the city and is one of the largest urban parks in Europe.
The thousands of trees that fill it provide exceptional thermal comfort, with temperature differences of up to three degrees compared to other parts of the city. The former riverbed is also a laboratory for renaturalisation, home to an experimental meadow designed to boost biodiversity, as well as squirrels and 70 species of birds. Along much of its route, the garden acts as a natural sponge, retaining water and filtering it into the subsoil, helping to prevent flooding and erosion.
A meeting place for locals and visitors alike, it is not only a green lung but also the city’s healthy, cultural and sporting heartbeat. It also stands out as a space where cutting-edge design meets tradition, thanks to the heritage and architecture that line both banks, offering a showcase of València’s rich history through the ages.
In terms of urban mobility, the Turia Garden is a model to follow. Its pedestrian paths and cycle lanes encourage an active and sustainable lifestyle, helping to reduce polluting emissions.
Route accessibility
This route is accessible for wheelchair users and people with physical disabilities. The itinerary offers optimal physical accessibility conditions, with stable and passable surfaces along almost its entire length, with only slight irregularities at very specific points of the route.
"The green river" route: 7.5 km / Walking 1:45 minutes or by bike 30 minutes
Route 2 - A historic center to share
This itinerary is a perfect setting to contemplate the full coexistence of people, public and private transport in an urban space.
Starting from the modernist North Station, one can walk through one of the largest historical centers in Europe, crossing squares and pedestrianized streets full of monuments from all times and heritage buildings rehabilitated for the enjoyment of citizens and visitors.
The recovery of public spaces has transformed the old town into a huge meeting point that promotes sustainable mobility and an active and environmentally friendly lifestyle.
"A historic center to share" route: 2.5km / Walking 45 minutes
Route 3 - The orchard, the sea, and L’Albufera, the city’s pantries
From the place where paella was born, the Natural Park of L’Albufera, this route starts, which covers the three natural pantries of Valencia: rice fields, Mediterranean fish, and vegetables and fruits from the orchard that surrounds the city.
A triple guarantee of healthy food and local products that can be tasted in the hundreds of restaurants in the city. By public transport or by bicycle, this route embraces the city from the peri-urban orchard and dyes the landscape with green and blue.
From the south, the rice fields give way to the beaches that proudly wave the European Blue Flag and to the Marina de Valencia, a huge public balcony to the Mediterranean that relieves other areas of the city frequented by travelers.
"The orchard, the sea, and L’Albufera, the city’s pantries" route: 25 km / By bike 1:30 minutes
Route 4 - Essential route
This route integrates the three previous itineraries, designed for a visit with limited time to provide a simplified overview of the main values on which the European Green Capital is based in the city of Valencia.
