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An Insider’s Guide to Valencia

Posted by Annie Fitzsimmons in Urban Insider on January 17, 2013
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L'Hemisfèric & L'Umbracle, two of the sculpture-like buildings that make up the City of Arts and Sciences complex. (Photograph by Wojtek Gurak, Flickr)

Travelers often overlook Valencia in favor of Spain’s larger cities like Madrid and Barcelona. But that may be a mistake. Annie Fitzsimmons and an in-the-know local at her favorite hotel explain why this Mediterranean port city deserves a world-class-destination designation.