Valencia

Visit Fusión: An inexpensive mixed kebab restaurant serving falafel, hummus, vegan pizza and vegan burgers. State clearly that the order must be vegan.

Visit Copenhagen: A polished vegetarian Russafa dining room with multiple vegan plates and good sharing options. Not fully vegan.

Visit Maybean Café: A breakfast and lunch café with vegan wraps, bowls, sandwiches, desserts, smoothies and plant milks.

Visit Oslo: Vegetarian old-city restaurant with a broad vegan selection in a handsome historic interior. Not fully vegan.

Visit Del Mundo Bistro: A daytime brunch restaurant with vegan smoothies, toast, a hummus-vegetable wrap, sandwich and bowl.

Visit Kimpira: Plant-based macrobiotic cooking with seasonal Mediterranean ingredients. Calmer and more vegetable-led than the city’s burger-focused options.

Visit Cantina Mariachi — Aqua: A practical mixed-group option near Aqua and the City of Arts. Vegan nachos and a Heura burrito are listed. Confirm sauces and adaptations because vegan cheese is not offered.

Visit Jardín Urbano: A relaxed vegan café for brunch, bowls, burgers and cakes, well placed for a Russafa morning.

Visit MESTIZA in Valencia to explore the menu at this fully vegan venue. Check the current menu before you go.

Visit The Nature Restaurant in Valencia to explore the menu at this fully vegan venue. Check the current menu before you go.

Visit Lo de Ponxe En El Kinto Pino: Informal fully vegan lunch bar with a changing weekly menu.

Visit La Tavernaire: Fully vegan small plates, crêpes and Sunday Valencian paella.

Visit La Mandrágora: A community-minded vegan kitchen and cultural space with affordable daily food in El Carmen.

Visit Let It Bloom: A vegan breakfast and café option near Russafa’s tiled streets and market.

Visit Khambú Ruzafa: Fully vegan burgers, tacos, share plates and a popular baked cheesecake in Russafa.

Visit Cor del Pilar: Fully vegan fusion restaurant. Reservations are required.

Visit Vegan Dining Room at Institute Macrobiotic of Spain: Weekday vegan macrobiotic lunchroom using seasonal local produce.

Visit VHOI - Vegan Hostaria Itinerante: Fully vegan Italian takeaway with tray pizza, lasagne, sandwiches and desserts.

Explore Museu Faller de València: The surviving ninots document the craft, satire and visual culture of the Falles festival.

Visit Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas: Its extravagantly carved alabaster portal is Valencia’s Baroque showpiece. Inside, the ceramics museum connects craft, domestic life and status.

Visit L’Almoina Archaeological Centre: A glass-covered excavation reveals Roman Valentia, Visigothic layers and the Islamic city directly beside the cathedral.

Visit La Lonja de la Seda: The UNESCO-listed silk exchange expresses Valencia’s 15th-century mercantile power through spiral columns and an almost cathedral-like trading hall.

Visit Mercado Central: One of Europe’s great Modernista markets: iron, tile and stained glass built to dignify everyday food commerce. Go near opening time.

Experience Patacona promenade: Continue north beyond Malvarrosa for a calmer seafront walk and a more residential slice of Valencia’s coast.

Experience Russafa street circuit: A walk through tiled façades, produce stalls and the everyday social heart of modern Valencia.

Visit Torres de Quart: A heavier late-Gothic city gate still bearing scars from Napoleonic artillery. Less polished and often quieter than Serranos.

Visit Torres de Serranos: The monumental northern gate of the medieval walls offers a compact lesson in defensive architecture and a broad old-city view.

Experience Turia Gardens bike ride: Follow the former riverbed through gardens and bridges in one of Europe’s most successful urban landscape conversions.

Visit Valencia Cathedral & Miguelete: Roman, Islamic and Christian Valencia overlap here. Climb the Miguelete for the clearest reading of the old city’s roofscape.