VALENCIA HIGHLIGHTS RUN – 5K

Lace up and experience Valencia with all five senses on our 5K Valencia Highlights Run — a guided jog through the city’s most iconic landmarks, buzzing markets, and palm-lined plazas. This isn’t just a sightseeing tour. It’s the heartbeat of the city, felt through your feet.

We start our adventure in the colorful city center and run past Estació del Nord — a train station that looks like it was designed by an artist on a citrus high. Look up and you’ll spot tiles covered in oranges, flowers, and even the city’s famous bats. Next door, the grand Plaza de Toros reminds us that Valencia has a flair for drama, whether in the bullring or on the concert stage.

As we jog toward Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the city starts to wake up around us. You’ll hear the clatter of café chairs, smell freshly baked pan con tomate, and feel the wide plaza open up beneath your stride. This is where Fallas explodes into life every March, where city pride reaches its highest decibels, and where pigeons strut like they own the place. The towering Town Hall and domed Post Office create a dramatic skyline that demands a photo stop — if you can stop staring.

From there, we breeze into Mercado Central, and the air instantly shifts: salty, sweet, alive. Inside this iron-and-glass masterpiece, the scent of cured ham, oranges, and roasted almonds fills the air. You’ll hear fishmongers calling out daily deals and catch glimpses of chefs in a hurry. Right across the street, we slow our pace in front of La Lonja de la Seda — a stunning Gothic silk exchange that once echoed with whispers of million-dollar trades and stone gargoyles silently judging from above.

As we continue into Plaza de la Virgen, it feels like entering a postcard. Surrounded by fountains, flowers, and the graceful curves of the Basilica and Cathedral, this is Valencia’s sacred heart. Locals sip horchata in the shade while guitar music drifts through the morning light. We pause briefly at the Cathedral — where the Holy Grail rests in a quiet side chapel — and catch our breath beneath centuries of history.

The final stretch brings a refreshing change of scenery as we enter the lush green ribbon of Turia Park. The air cools, flowers bloom all around us, and the path opens up. We cross Puente de las Flores — Valencia’s beloved flower bridge — and soak in the smell of orange blossoms carried on the breeze.

We finish where we started, hearts pumping, spirits lifted, and a little more in love with this dazzling Mediterranean city. Whether it’s your first time in Valencia or you’re rediscovering it with fresh eyes, the Valencia Highlights Run offers the perfect blend of movement, memory, and magic.

PICK-UP SERVICE
Pick-up service from your hotel/apartment or another meeting point is possible and will be checked by the tour provider individually. If your hotel/apartment should be too far away from the city centre or not close to the tour route, then we will meet you at our standard meeting point.

MEETING DETAILS
The tour provider will get in contact with you to provide you with more detailed information after the tour was booked. Please, bring along your mobile phone in case we need to contact each other.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• Private guide/tour
• Individual pace
• Digital photos
• Tour route
• Pick-up service
• Water