Heritage towns in Valencia
11 towns in this province.
A city written into ancient history, Sagunto rises above Valencia's coastal plain with a castle hill that has seen Carthaginian sieges, Roman theatres, and the footsteps of conquerors across three thousand years.
A hilltop city in Valencia province whose castle and old town walls have watched over the plain since the Middle Ages, and whose streets connect to both the Camino del Cid and one of the longest histories of human settlement on Spain's Mediterranean coast.
A fortified medieval quarter rising from limestone bedrock above Valencia's wine country, where Moorish cave cellars run beneath Gothic churches and the Bobal grape has been king for centuries.
A hilltop town in Valencia province where a medieval quarter of steep, winding lanes rises above prehistoric cave sites, a Moorish castle site, and Spain's oldest bullring cut entirely from rock.
A hill town in Valencia's Serranía where Moorish, Jewish, Mudéjar and Christian quarters survive as distinct neighbourhoods, watched over by an Almohad tower and a Baroque church that doubles as one of the finest in the region.
A frontier castle town above the Turia river, where Aragonese kings, Hospitaller knights, and the Order of Montesa all left their mark on a comarca that geography kept apart from the rest of Valencia.
A walled hilltop town in Valencia's interior, once capital of its own Muslim emirate, where a ruined castle, medieval aqueduct, and dinosaur trackways older than 140 million years share the same municipal territory.
A town in Valencia province whose roots go back to a major Iberian capital, later remade as a Roman city, and whose layers of history — prehistoric, Islamic, medieval, and noble — survive in excavated sites, ruins, and street names.
A city on the Valencian coast shaped by the Borja dynasty, whose ducal palace, Gothic collegiate church, and nearby Jeronymite monastery still stand as testament to one of medieval Spain's most powerful noble houses.
A Valencia province town where a bell tower — the tallest in the Comunidad Valenciana — rises above a river, a medieval bridge, and streets that have been continuously settled since the Bronze Age.
Above the Valencia plain, Montesa's ruined castle-monastery—birthplace of a medieval military order and twice shaken by earthquake—stands as one of the region's most dramatic pieces of standing history.