The Huerta of Valencia Walking Tour with Local Lunch
Valencia, Spain
Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 4 hours
Enjoy the charms and flavors of the Huerta de Valencia, a stunning agricultural area. We invite you to walk it, appreciate it and live it so closely! The North Valencia's fields (Huerta of Valencia) is not only a landscape, a region or an agricultural environment. It's also an important cultural and historical benchmark, worth the centenary of its architecture and rural engineering, you will appreciate its farmhouses, mills, irrigation ditches, hermitages. A unique space that you cannot miss in your visit to Valencia.
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Enjoy the charms and flavors of the Huerta de Valencia, a stunning agricultural area. We invite you to walk it, appreciate it and live it so closely! The North Valencia's fields (Huerta of Valencia) is not only a landscape, a region or an agricultural environment. It's also an important cultural and historical benchmark, worth the centenary of its architecture and rural engineering, you will appreciate its farmhouses, mills, irrigation ditches, hermitages. A unique space that you cannot miss in your visit to Valencia.Would you like to know one of the latest suburban field in Europe? In the Huerta of Valencia the mixture of water, the productive land and the wisdom of farmers have created a unique environment that will make us forget that the city is at your doorstep. We’ll enjoy an agricultural area plenty of outstanding environmental, cultural and historical values. A heritage that treasures constructions such as norias, Arab ditches, terraces, little fields, fountains and traditional houses as alquerías (farm houses) and the latest barracas (huts) that still survive.
In this tour you will understand how the essence of Valencia has taken shape, as the rural activities has been the main way of life for many Valencians, along centuries.
Now let’s walk through rural little roads that meander between local crops: artichokes, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, tigernuts… You could feel its freshness, its smells and its colors very closely.
You will discover everything about of the institution that regulates water irrigation in this area: the Tribunal de las Aguas (Water Court), the oldest known in Europe. It has been declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and still has a great importance to resolve many conflicts between farmers, that have been generated by the use of water.
And to end this journey full of sensations, we will arrive to a village situated in the hearth of the huerta to enjoy a delicious full menu lunch with Valencian rice and tapas, in a restaurant especialized in Valencian gastronomy.
In this tour you will understand how the essence of Valencia has taken shape, as the rural activities has been the main way of life for many Valencians, along centuries.
Now let’s walk through rural little roads that meander between local crops: artichokes, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, tigernuts… You could feel its freshness, its smells and its colors very closely.
You will discover everything about of the institution that regulates water irrigation in this area: the Tribunal de las Aguas (Water Court), the oldest known in Europe. It has been declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and still has a great importance to resolve many conflicts between farmers, that have been generated by the use of water.
And to end this journey full of sensations, we will arrive to a village situated in the hearth of the huerta to enjoy a delicious full menu lunch with Valencian rice and tapas, in a restaurant especialized in Valencian gastronomy.
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