An other picture dump - this time images of things you can see around la Plaza de la Reina:

Fancy a ride through Valencia in a horse carriage? Then you’ll be happy to know that la Plaza de la Reina is the right place to go. Anyone know how much an hour through Valencia costs?

Entrance [...]

Worship Me, Please
Fallas seems as though it were just yesterday, but there can apparently be no rest in this city.
On the second Sunday of May, the festivals celebrating Our Lady of the Forsaken (La Virgen de los Desamparados) begin. Actually, the festivities truly begin the day before.
Mostly for ourselves, we’ve compiled a [...]

This statement is of course very subjective, since I’ve only been to 3 different horchaterias since living in the city.
The origin of the horchata can be found in Alboraya, a town bordering Valencia. And Alboraya’s Horchateria Daniel is the place to be. Huge and extremely popular, it’s also the birthplace of fartons [...]

Every Tuesday night, there is a Flamenco session at Radio City (location). We went this week, and had an excellent time.

I’m not an expert in Flamenco (and in fact, before I bought a Camarón de la Isla album 4 weeks ago, I had never really listened to it at all), but I think the [...]

If you like books, don’t miss this year’s book fair being held in Viveros Gardens (location).
We went today, and spent about an hour wandering about the 81 stands. Just about every bookstore in Valencia has a presence here, from Libreria Patagonia (yea!), to Futurama Comics (hurrah!), to El Corte Ingles (boo!)
Just about every genre [...]

One of Valencia’s most well-known regular events is the Tribunal de las Aguas, which is held every Thursday at noon outside the Puerta de los Apostles in the Plaza de la Virgen (location).

The Tribunal’s fame is due mainly to its age. It’s difficult to find definitive information about exactly when the tribunals began — [...]

On Monday, we scaled the Micalet’s 60 meters & 207 stairs to get a beautiful bird’s eye view of the old city (location)
La Plaza de la Virgen
It cost €2 to access the stairs, which is probably less than what you pay for a similar workout at your local fitness studio. Mercifully, the wind from [...]

Last night, Valencia CF beat Getafe 3 - 1, to win the Spain’s Copa del Rey.
Image courtesy Levante
Guests had just arrived for a visit, so we decided to skip watching the game in favor of dinner at El Albero (a decision I had been opposed to — guests schmests, hunger schmonger). Luckily, the [...]

The former Royal gardens are today more well-known as the Gardens of Viveros (location).

The huge grounds, adjacent to the even more expansive parks of the Turia riverbed, used to be the home to the royal palace, before it was bombed to pieces in 1810 during the Peninsular War against the occupying French. [...]

From April 17th to May 11th, the University of Valencia’s La Nau (location) will be the location of Digital Media 1.0. Here’s a short description of the festival, which I’ve translated from their awesome website:
More than an exposition, Digital Media 1.0 is a meeting point and forum of debate for artists, experts and public, [...]