Costa Valenciana Map
Valencia’s own coastline runs either side of the city, and its defining feature is not a beach but a lagoon. The Albufera, just south of the city, is a freshwater lake ringed by rice fields — the paddies where paella was invented and where the rice for it still grows. North and south of that the coast is long, flat and sandy, with Gandia the biggest resort.
What is plotted on the Costa Valenciana map
The map carries 11 places on this coast: 5 historic sites, 3 towns, 2 museums, 1 natural park. They span roughly 79 km in a straight line, from Sagunto in the north to Archaeological Museum of Gandia in the south.
The Costa Valenciana coast, north to south
Every marker on the map, in the order you would meet it driving south. The distance is a straight line from the place above it.
| Place | Type | From previous |
|---|---|---|
| Sagunto | Historic site | — |
| Torres de Serranos Torres de Serranos survived Valencia’s demolished city walls largely because it was still a working prison — a use that | Historic site | 24 km |
| Valencia Cathedral Valencia Cathedral hid Renaissance frescoes for 357 years, and still holds a chalice many believe to be the Holy Grail. | Historic site | 0 km |
| Valencia | Town | 1 km |
| City of Arts and Sciences Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences exists because a 1957 flood forced the city to divert its river, leaving a | Museum | 3 km |
| Albufera | Natural park | 14 km |
| Cullera | Town | 20 km |
| Xàtiva | Historic site | 30 km |
| Gandia | Town | 29 km |
| Collegiate Basilica of Gandia The Collegiate Basilica of Gandia baptised Francis Borgia, the one member of the notorious papal family who became a canonised | Historic site | 0 km |
| Archaeological Museum of Gandia Gandia’s archaeological museum closed for 16 years (1987-2003) for research and restoration — its collection includes some of Europe’s earliest | Museum | 0 km |
By what you are looking for
Historic site (5): Sagunto, Torres de Serranos, Valencia Cathedral, Xàtiva, Collegiate Basilica of Gandia
Town (3): Valencia, Cullera, Gandia
Museum (2): City of Arts and Sciences, Archaeological Museum of Gandia
Natural park (1): Albufera
How to read the map
Each marker is coloured by place type, so a glance tells you whether a point is a beach, a town or a natural park. Clicking a marker opens its name, type and a link to the full page. The checkbox bar above the map filters by type: untick everything except beaches to see only the coastline, or leave only historic sites to plan a day inland. Markers cluster when zoomed out, so a number in a circle means several places sit close together — zoom in and the cluster splits.
For the coast written up as a single read, see the region page.
How to use this map
The map is scoped to this coast: the pins are the destinations on it, not the whole of Spain. The filters above narrow it further — show only beaches, or only coves, viewpoints, castles, museums or natural parks.
Town guides on this coast
- Alboraya — the home of horchata
- Algemesí — a UNESCO-listed September festival, human towers and a grand basilica near Valencia
- Alzira — a historic island town on the Júcar river
- Burjassot — the historic Los Silos granary
- Buñol — What Buñol is really like
- Bétera — an inland Valencia town on the metro line, with a medieval castle
- Carcaixent — Commercial orange cultivation in Spain started in Carcaixent in the eighteenth century
- Catarroja — a town on Valencia’s Albufera lagoon, its harbour and paella heartland
- Chiva — 31 km inland on the A-3
- Cullera — What Cullera is really like
- El Puig de Santa Maria — What El Puig de Santa Maria is really like
- Foios — a Valencian huerta town just north of the city
- Gandia — What Gandia is really like
- La Pobla de Vallbona — history, festivals, pilota and how to visit this inland Costa town
- Llíria — What Llíria is really like
- Mislata — What Mislata is really like
- Oliva — 10 km of dune-backed beaches
- Ontinyent — the Pou Clar river pools, a medieval La Vila quarter
- Paiporta — a Valencia metro town known for horchata and Horta farmland
- Paterna — What Paterna is really like
- Picassent — ceramics, Albufera rice fields
- Puçol — Mediterranean sand at El Puig, the Sierra Calderona behind
- Quart de Poblet — What Quart de Poblet is really like
- Requena — The walled La Villa quarter sits over a network of medieval cellars
- Riba-roja de Túria — The Visigothic settlement of València la Vella sits above the Túria here
- Sagunto — What Sagunto is really like
- Sueca — What Sueca is really like
- Valencia — What Valencia is really like
For the coast in words, see the full guide, or the region page for its destinations by area. Every Spanish coast is on the main CostaMap map.
Every place we have mapped on the Costa Valenciana
11 towns, beaches, coves and landmarks, kept up to date automatically.