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Valencia
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Valencia's Nightlife
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The city of Valencia is known for its active and attractive night atmosphere, with a great range of possibilities which makes visitors feel at ease out in the streets. The mild characteristic weather invites everybody to stay out in the terraces and open air bars, many of them open almost all year.
This city has one of the highest rates of music bars and leisure zones, up to the point that even people from other spanish cities come to spend one night, attracted by the so known as the "Ruta del Bacalao" (a road which has lots of discos on each side, one after the other).
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Terraces in Barrio del Carmen
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Valencia offers you, from the old part until the beach, more than one hundred of bars, discos and terraces, each one with its own style and atmosphere.
The Barrio del Carmen, the old part of the city, is located behind the cathedral (Caballeros street), and is particularly famous for being a meeting place for the most modern bohemian people. Many of the old houses and palaces have been rebuilt and adapted as bars or pubs, restaurants... Here, you will also be able to find quiet cafes and peaceful terraces.
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Many of this music bars and pubs have the attraction of including live music performances (rock, jazz, blues...).
On the other side of the old river Turia is the Canovas Square, with a more selected atmosphere and very recommendable terraces. It's different from the big avenues: Blasco Ibáñez and Aragón, close to the Mestalla football field, where many pubs play mainly latin music and rhytms.
Maybe the biggest zone that attracts more people is Juan Llorens, with an ever-increasing offer in pubs and bars, usually the best place to dance with the latest caribbean rhytms. Xúquer, is another leisure area for the youngest people. Buzz usually starts on Thursday with the end of the classes in the Universities.
Apart from these zones inside the city, Valencia, as a city on the coast, offers a more attractive nightlife in summer, when most of the people go to the bars and pubs located on the beach zone, along the Neptuno Avenue. With the best views to the sea, here we have some of the most renowned restaurants and terraces in Valencia. This diversity is ideal for both inhabitants and tourists, who can choose among different styles and concepts of fun: rock, pop, latin rhytms, techno...
The most visited discos are in around the Viveros Gardens, in Blasco Ibáñez and Primado Reig (near the road to Barcelona) avenues, stretching out to the macrodiscotheques of the "Ruta del Bacalao", which are located in the road that runs along the coast.
There are also, for good music lovers, bars with their particular style that offer jam sessions and concerts. Among many other, the most famous are Black Note Club, La Caverna, El Asesino, El Escondite, La Flaca, La Balada, Matisse, Max o Slavia, Wah Wah...
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Valencia at night
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In general, in the city of Valencia the bars, cafes and pubs remain open for many hours, due to the fact that a morning meeting with friends can sometimes take all day and stretch well into midnight.
People usually go out around 23,00 or 00,00. Some people go out a bit earlier to have some "tapas" (aps) for dinner. |
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Everything depends, though, on the season of the year we are in. In winter, the pubs are jammed on Thursday and Friday, that is, the days when university students go out. In summer however, it is easier to find nighlife in the zones next to the beach, where the night breeze helps to bear the warm atmosphere.
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Here you have some of the prices that the tourist my find in his tour around the leisure areas. All prices are in euros.
Transport:
- Bus 1,00
- Taxi 3,75 approx.
Party:
- Ticket for pubs (most of them are free).
- Disco entry ticket 6 - 9 - 12
- Spirits 4 - 5
- Beer (pub) 2,00 - 3,00
- Soda (pub) 2,00 |
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This prices are approximate, and they will probably vary in case the bars or pubs offer some kind of live show. Here, the prices may increase or there may be a symbolic price in an entry ticket.
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