Christmas in Valencia.. Holiday trip to the beautiful Spain
For this Christmas and I Giancarlo we decided to give a holiday to Valencia in fact was a little bit that we wanted to take Matthew to visit the Oceanographic of this city which they say is one of the most beautiful in the world.
As usual we have relied on the purchase of airline tickets to Ryanair found it very good, 3 tickets round trip from Bergamo to Valencia cost us almost $ 300 not much considering that it was Christmas week, regarding the arrangement hotel while traveling with a child about 3 years, we have opted for renting an apartment we found one in center city that have cost us 300 euros for the whole week (www.homelidays.com).
As for the parking of our car all'areoporto Bergamo we would trust travelparking (http://www.travelparking.it/bergamofoto.htm), the cost was 32 euros.
We started from Bergamo on the morning of 21 December, the flight took off and landed in Valencia is punctuated, as soon as we arrived we immediately slingshots to tourist information point is located inside of the airport, here a gentle used us given all the information necessary for a pleasant holiday tracorrere We also purchased the card daily Valencia (8 euros) with which you can have several different discounts on admission tickets, for all we were advised to take the subway that starts from ' airport we decided to take a taxi to Valencia are notoriously cheap and in fact our taxi came to cost us 17 euros up to our apartment. In Valencia during the Christmas season you can watch different shows in the circus, we've counted at least 5 located in various strategic points of the city and our visit began the purchase of tickets for the most characteristic one in just inside the plaza de toros arenahttp : / / www.grancircowonderland.com/, the baby has been particularly pleased to see the fantasy of Aladdin that he liked so much, outside of the arena there is a well-stocked grocery store that sells candy at affordable prices I'll recommend it. The next day we devoted entirely to the visit of Oceanography, at home we had seen the site several times and eventually we bought a combined ticket for the Oceanographic and hemispheric (25 euros) excluding the city of science as inappropriate we believe a child so small.
Oceanography and the pride of Valencia is very big and beautiful, the visit began hemisphere which is nothing more than a three-dimensional cinema, the ticket you must choose the show and the times in which you want to attend None, however, in Italian we have opted for the dinosaurs in Spanish and loved it, coming out of there we went to eat. opposite hemisphere is an enormous shopping mall with mec donald attached and that's where we ate. In the afternoon visit to oceanography, which is amazing, with entire pavilion devoted to the various marine habitats, we even watched the dolphin show, saw the shark tank of penguins and seals. In the evening we took advantage of the proximity of the mall for shopping Christmas. The next day we visited the town center plaza with dell'Ayuntamento where he set up a nativity scene, the queen's plaza, the cathedral (very beautiful), the Lonya (UNESCO) and the market centale (really missed especially under the holidays) for lunch, we followed the directions of our loyal routard and we were fresh from a full menu where it cost about 8 euros per person.
We arrived on Christmas Eve, today we visit the art museum Pius 6, say it is really nice and it really is worth a visit, this is the only museum that we were allowed to visit despite the city ce they are different, finished visiting the museum we visited the royal gardens that inside the aviaries and beautiful then a beautiful walk to the Turia. The turia is really very nice, you meet many people who are walking and jogging are also you can admire the famous bridges of Valencia from the historical ones until you get to the most moderni.la Our destination is the famous gardens of Gulliver, a playground free very singular, Matthew after a couple of hours is exhausted and we all go to house where everything is ready to celebrate Christmas together.
E 'Christmas finally arrived, having smashed the gifts with the child, we head to the beach which is Malvarossa in Valencia is a beautiful day and many like us, although party have the opportunity to enjoy this sunny day. It's all right, Matthew plays with sand and dotted with various games along the promenade, Giancarlo a look at the menus offered by restaurants today, it's almost 3 when we finally at the table we chose a nice restaurant Beach House isabel (www.casaisabel.es) where we ate and celebrated Christmas in divinely joyful (but salty account is Christmas) we finished eating another long walk and then we go to Luna Park which is at this lively, we did some laps on the pony rides and too or do I have to confess I went a little girl, we give discounts to the nearby American circus and decide to end this beautiful day with a 'another show of the circus that has as its major attractiveness of Cuban artists really bravi.torniamo home in a taxi after a certain hour because the buses do not go paying race on Christmas Eve, only 6 million (the face of our holiday extras and night).
For transportation in Valencia we bought a good bus at a cost of 5.60 valid for 10 races, is very convenient because you can use it in more people, obviously we must stamp it several times, including the taxi is very convenient. The last day was to be devoted to visiting the zoo, but then because of bad weather we opted for a stroll downtown and making the final purchases