Valencia is the third most important city in our country. If you’re on your way or you’re starting out here, come with time to enjoy the city full of history, bustling and quiet, luminous and cheerful; Let yourself be carried away by the old quarter and visit its medieval palaces, its noble houses, its churches with Romanesque and Gothic traces elevated above the previous mosques, its Arab walls… Enter the Cathedral and come and see the Holy Grail, that Chalice through which so many knights threw themselves into unsuspected adventures, and in the penumbra of the Chapterhouse where it is located, it rests a little; then look at that alabaster Santiago, not very big, which to the right of the urn and to your left seems to stand guard.

If you want to see the city as a whole, climb the Miguelete tower and you will have it at your feet: now you can get an idea of what this city looks like. If you want to dream, go for a walk in its gardens or contemplate the Mediterranean Sea, that sea so many times painted by Sorolla and so many times named by Blasco Ibáñez (valencian writer). Valencia is well worth your time.

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It is important to know that the route within the city of Valencia is marked with brass tiles “with scallops”, embedded in the sidewalks.

Taking as a starting point at the door of the Apostles of the Cathedral, Gothic from the 14th century, with pilgrim Santiago about to start the walk with us, the pilgrim enters the street El Micalet to the Plaza de la Reina, which crosses along its length to seek the exit from the city following the street San Vicente Mártir. Before leaving the square, on the right you can see the church of Santa Catalina (13th century), with its baroque hexagonal tower. At the beginning of San Vicente Mártir St. and on the left, a Jacobean symbol on the tympanum of the door of the church of San Martín: San Martín on horseback sharing his cape with a pilgrim, a sculptural group dating from the fifteenth century that was paid for by the knight of the Order of Santiago Vicente Peñarroja.

Leaving behind the crossroads with the Town Hall square and without leaving San Vicente Mártir St. one reaches and crosses the Plaza de San Agustín, in whose church the Virgen de Gracia is venerated: the legend says that it was carved by a pilgrim. After crossing the Plaza de España where the statue of El Cid is located, on our right appears the monastery-hospital of San Vicente Mártir, martyred by Daciano in the fourth century and of great renown throughout the Christian world at the time. The street of San Vicente Mártir crosses the Giorgeta Avenue and continues to the district of San Marcelino, beyond the city limits.

Approximately two kms away, a 15th-century cruise ship called Cruz Cubierta (Covered Cross) marks this limit. Ausias March Avenue is crossed further on, which will be bordered on the left to continue along José Soto Micó Street, the new Turia riverbed is crossed by a bridge and you enter the neighborhood La Torre, where the signposting ends with the tiles embedded in the sidewalks (from here the itinerary to follow is marked with ceramics with scallops on the walls, with yellow arrows and white and red stripes of GR path (long distance)). The path turns left onto Concepción Arenal St., Jiménez y Costa St., and Hellín St., continuing along a path parallel to the railway track on our left; cross the post level crossing and you get into Alfafar village through Blasco Ibáñez St. (old Vía Augusta), San Sebastián St. and Plaça País Valencià.