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 Car Hire & Driving in Valencia, SpainWelcome to Valencia Car Hire, Spain; available at Valencia Airport.Valencia Car HireJust 2 miles (3km) from the Mediterranean in your hire car and straddling the Rio Turia, the city of Valencia has is a fantastic site to discover in your hire car. Valencia lies in the middle of one of Europe’s most densely developed agricultural regions that you can explore in your hire car. The field surrounding the city of Valencia can yield three to four crops a year. Orange and lemon trees line the roads that you can explore around Valencia in your hire car, while rice grows alongside sweet corn in the fields, providing very picturesque Spanish countryside around Valencia to discover in your hire car. Shimmering canals also weave their way through the land around Valencia, giving it life. This is the ‘huerta’ area of Valencia, a cultivated and irrigated plain that was considered by the Muslims to be heaven on earth. Even the Spanish hero El Cid was taken by it, as you will be in your hire car. On his entry in to Valencia he proclaimed: From the day when I saw Valencia I found it to my liking, and I I desired it, and I asked God to make me master of Valencia. Valencia the city that he so desperately wanted had already seen the glories of past empires. Valencia had been founded by the Romans in 138 BC and became known as a retirement town for old soldiers. Valencia was chosen for its mild year round temperatures and the Romans took advantage of the sunshine and the runoff from the surrounding mountains to turn the rich soil around Valencia into some of the most efficiently irrigated farmland in their domain, a tradition that you will see has continued today when you explore Valencia in your hire car. The natural place to begin a tour of Valencia itself in your hire car is the main square. Like most main squares you will find the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in the centre of Valencia in your hire car and is the place where you can find the city hall, post office and bus stops in your hire car in Valencia. The history of the nation of Valencia is told in the Museo Historico Municipal, which is housed on the second floor of the city hall and can be visited in your hire car while in Valencia’s main square. Of special interest at the museum is the first map of Valencia drawn at the time when Valencia was bigger than Barcelona, Madrid and Genova, which you can also visit in your hire car while. The map, drawn in 1704, took five years to complete as the cartographer measured Valencia street by street with a tape. It is still one of the most accurate maps of Valencia in existence. The people of Valencia are known for their individualism, sensuality, creativity, their desire to show off, and their pride in the natural abundance of water on which Valencia is built. For evidence of this you need look no further than Valencia’s railway station in your hire car, which is decorated on the outside with bunches of sculpted oranges that you will be able to see from your hire car and inside Valencia’s railway stations there are stained glass and ceramic mosaic decorations. The craft that Valencia developed in to a fine art, ceramics, is represented in the Palacio del Marques de Dos Aguas, which you will find on Calle Poeta Querol in your hire car, and houses the Museo Nacional de Ceramica. The oldest pieces in Valencia’s ceramic museum come from tow towns in the Huerta, Paterna and Maises, which are also worth investigating in you hire car. Round the corner in your hire car from the ceramic museum in Valencia is the Real Colegio de Corpus Cristi, which is commonly known as the Colegio del Patriarca, in honour of its founder, the 16th century archbishop and viceroy of Valencia. Grouped around its renowned two-storey Renaissance patio are a church and a museum housing an important collection of art by both Spanish and foreign masters, which you can investigate in your hire car while in Valencia. To the north of Valencia’s main square in your hire car is the Plaza del Mercado, site of the Central Market which you can explore in your hire car everyday of the week, except Sunday and is one of the largest markets in Europe. Just across the street in your hire car is the Lonjo which you can visit in your hire car while in Valencia and is the old commercial exchange, built in the 15th century for the ever increasing mercantile industry. Behind the Lonja is a maze of narrow streets and squares that lead to the Plaza de Zaragoza, on which stands the cathedral. This area of Valencia is best explore on foot without the hire car, when you will be able to find the likes of the charming Plaza Redoda, a circular covered market whose stalls sell a mixture of haberdashery, clothes and crafts that you may have missed if touring this area of Valencia in your hire car. Valencia’s cathedral may be visited in your hire car. Begun in 1262 in traditional Gothic style the focal point of the structure is the unfinished 15th century octagonal bell tower known as the Miguelete, which you can also visit while on a trip to Valencia’s cathedral in your hire car. From the top there is a find view of the glazer-tile domes of Valencia and the stretching countryside beyond. Calle de Caballeros, close to Valencia’s cathedral complex in you hire car, is the old main street of Valencia. Its commercial importance has waned but its former glory is seen in the Gothic residence that you will see in your hire car while are interspersed with restaurants, bars and cafes which make for a good stop off point in your hire car while exploring Valencia. The maze of streets that branch off from Caballeros towards the river form the oldest part of Valencia, which is worth exploring in your hire car and known as the Barrio del Carmen. As late as 1762, Valencia was still a network of 428 narrow streets held within fortified walls. In 1777 the dangers of these dark alleyways gave rise to the establishment of the first night watchmen in Valencia, who later became a standard feature of most Spanish towns. For decades this area of Valencia lay in ruins but now it is being rapidly refurbished as you will be able to witness in your hire car. At the end of Caballeros in your hire car is the Torres de Quart, a city gate built in the 1390s and one of two left standing in Valencia; the other being the Torres de Serranos which you will find north of Valencia’s cathedral on Calle de Serranos in your hire car. To the north west of Valencia city centre in your hire car on Calle Guillem de Castro is the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, which you can visit in your hire car while in Valencia and is considered to be one of Spain’s most dynamic contemporary art galleries. From here you can look out across the dry bed of the Rio Turia in your hire car which now forms a picturesque green oasis in the centre of Valencia. Following this green belt to the opposite side of Valencia in your hire car you will come to Valencia’s largest gardens, the Jardines del Real which you can visit in your hire car. Beside the gardens stands the Museo de Ballas Artes one of the most important provincial galleries, which is the last place of note to visit in your hire car in Valencia before venturing off to explore the places of interest that surround Valencia that should also be explored in your hire car while in the Valencia and Murcia region of Spain. There may be plenty of things to see and do in your hire car while in Valencia city, thought there is also plenty to see and do in your hire car in the area around Valencia, in the towns of the Valencia and Murcia region of Spain, and this is where your hire car become particularly useful. To the north of Valencia in your hire car you will find Sagunt, the Roman town of Saguntum. The theatre that the Romans built into the hillside above the town in the 1st century AD is worth a visit in your hire car from Valencia as it has been restored for performances of plays and music, which you may be lucky enough to see on a trip from Valencia in your hire car. The castle above the theatre in Sagunt is also worth a visit in your hire car while on a trip from Valencia, as it incorporates remains from all the races to have passed through this part of the Valencia region, from the Iberians to the Moors. South of Valencia in your hire car is the beautiful L’Albufera where you will find a fascinating freshwater lake separated from the sea by a sandbar, which is worth exploring in your hire car from Valencia. While here in your hire car from Valencia you can also learn about the Albufera’s bird life in the visitors centre at Raco de l’Olla or leave your hire car and take a boat trip from the neighbouring village of El Palmar. El Palmar is also good place to stop and eat while exploring in your hire car from Valencia, as they serve fine paella that you can enjoy against a beautiful background of a maze of paddy fields, which you can then go off an explore further in your hire car from Valencia. Further south of Valencia in your hire car the next bay you will find is the famous Costa Blanca where you can visit the popular resorts of Benidorm and Alicante in your hire car from Valencia. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip from Valencia to either Benidorm or Alicante in your hire car, visit our Benidorm Car Hire and Alicante Car Hire links. The interior of the Valencia region to the east of Valencia city in your hire car is not unmissable, but it is worth exploring in your hire car if you have the time. There are several beautiful spots worth visiting in your hire car in the valley of the Rio Turia in the Valencia region including the remains of a Roman aqueduct near Chelva. Another place here in the Valencia regions to visit in your hire car from Valencia is Alpuente, which is some what out of the way and has a tiny town hall crammed into a tower above a 14th century gateway that you can visit in your hire car from Valencia. Also Requena, to the south of the Turia in your hire car, is worth a visit as it is considered Valencia’s principal wine town. If you are a sensation seeker then a pilgrimage in your hire car to Bunol in this area of Valencia during late August for the extraordinary phenomenon of La Tomatina is a must to witness the free for all tomato throwing fiesta; you really won’t see anything else like it while touring Valencia in your hire car. Valencia Airport Car HireValencia Airport lies 4 miles (8km) from Valencia city in your hire car. Valencia Airport sees over 2 million passengers pass through every year and Valencia Airport operates 24 hours a day. At Valencia Airport there is parking for your hire car, should you need to leave your hire car at Valencia Airport. Valencia Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including a bank, bureau de change, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, a VIP lounge, duty free shop, gift shop, a travel agent, first aid facilities and car rental desk. Valencia Airport also has a tourist help desk, which can provide assistance on what to see an do in your hire car while in Valencia. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Valencia and Murcia region Car HireTogether, these two regions of Spain are often known as the Levant. Valencia and Murcia between them enjoy more than half of Spain’s eastern coastline, stretching from Catalonia to Almeria, providing you with plenty of scope for exploring in your hire car. The 9,000 square miles (23,300sq km) of the Communidad Valencia is split into three provinces that you can explore in your hire car: Valencia, Castellon and Alicante. This region approximately follows the boundaries of the old Kingdom od Valencia, which was captured from the Muslims in the 13th century by an army of Catalans, who left their language in Valencia in the form of the ‘valenciano’ dialect. Valencia, according to the ‘paso doble’ that has become the Valencia regions unofficial anthem, ‘is the land of flowers, light and love’, and you can see if you agree while touring the Valencia region in your hire car. Thanks to an equable Mediterranean climate, all good things seem in abundance in the Valencia region. Sunshine saturates Valencia’s many attractive beaches that you can visit in your hire car, and warm temperatures make for an active outdoor life day and night, almost all year round, so it does not matter when you visit the Valencia region in your hire car.
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