Valencia, Spain

Curated by Fran Silvestre

/ location

Valencia,
Spain

/ curated by

Fran Silvestre
2025

Fran Silvestre

“The studio’s relationship with the city always emerges from the place and its identity. We work from a deeply rooted Mediterranean tradition, closely linked to the landscape, the climate, and ways of living. The territory, with its physical and cultural conditions, guides the decisions of each project in an almost involuntary way. Within this dialogue between architecture and the city, the influence of the valencian sculptor Andreu Alfaro is fundamental. We are fortunate to work at “Espai Alfaro”, where our 7,000 m² studio is surrounded by his sculptures. His capacity for synthesis and his way of understanding sculpture through an almost architectural logic are part of our daily life. This constant coexistence naturally filters into the work of the studio, bringing a precise, essential outlook that is deeply connected to place.”

Google maps

/ Genuí Cosmopolita Restaurant

Ctra. San Antonio de Benagéber, Km 1

Precise, contemporary cuisine where care for the product and attention to detail are evident, set in an idyllic location overlooking a golf course.

/ LAVOE Arroz y Mar

C/ de la Creu Nova, 4

A place where rice is the true protagonist, treated with precision and deep respect for the product.

/ Restaurante Hōchō

Pg. de l'Albereda, 32

A space where calm, detail, and product come together, with an open kitchen that dialogues with a Japanese proposal reinterpreted with contemporary sensitivity.

/ HABITUAL by Ricard Camarena

Carrer de Jorge Juan, 19

Honest and essential cuisine that reconnects with origins, inviting a rediscovery of well-being and the depth of Mediterranean tradition by the highly awarded chef Ricard Camarena.

/ Llisa Negra

C/ de Pascual i Genís, 10

A contemporary interpretation of Valencian cuisine signed by Quique Dacosta, where fire and wood shape an honest, product-driven proposal, with rice dishes treated with precision and character at Llisa Negra.

/ Aquarium Valencia

Gran Via del Marqués del Túria, 57

A historic bar with a unique atmosphere and strong personality.

/ Rooftop Palacio Santa Clara

C/ de Pascual i Genís, 22

A magical terrace with unique views, signature cocktails, live music, and a modernist essence.

/ Hifi Valencia

C/ de Jesús, 91

A unique space in Valencia where handcrafted sound is the true protagonist, featuring high-quality vinyl sessions, live performances, and a carefully curated cocktail selection.

/ GRAN MARTÍNEZ.

Av. del Port, 318

A borderland venue next to the port where the sea breeze defines its character, and where Fitzgerald-inspired literary elegance blends with the physical history of the former J. Martínez pharmacy to shape this cocktail bar.

/ Café de las Horas

C/ del Comte d'Almodóvar, 1

A baroque-style cocktail bar hidden in the center of Valencia, where 18th-century paintings and sculptures create a theatrical atmosphere to enjoy one of the most authentic versions of Agua de Valencia, made with house-produced orange liqueur.

/ ESTIMAR Valencia

C. del Pintor Sorolla, 17

A boutique hotel that transforms a former bank headquarters into a comfortable, warmly designed hotel in the historic center.

/ Caro Hotel

C/ de l'Almirall, 14

Located in the heart of the city, it sits on the former Islamic city wall, which has been restored and integrated into its restaurant. The hotel itself occupies a historic Baroque palace rich in history.

/ VIVOOD Landscape Hotel

Carretera Guadalest - Alcoi, 10

Located in the Guadalest Valley, in Alicante although within the Valencian Community, this is a sustainable luxury hotel fully integrated into nature, designed to achieve complete disconnection from everyday life.

/ Hotel Hospes Palau de la Mar

Av. de Navarro Reverter, 14

A hotel located in the city’s noble Eixample district, featuring a spa and a restaurant called Ampar.

/ Gràffica Showroom

El Almudín, 16

A space open to presentations, screenings, and a bookstore, run by the creators of Gràffica, the most widely read Spanish-language digital editorial platform internationally.

/ Chapeau

C. d'Hernán Cortés, 5

A fashion store designed by Ramón Esteve, located in the Noble Eixample, notable for its enveloping reflective surfaces.

/ Librería Paris Valencia

C/ de Pelai, 7

A bookstore that also functions as an exhibition space, allowing visitors to browse books while enjoying works of art.

/ Pasaje 94

C/ dels Trinitaris, 13

An exhibition space for design products that coexists with an architecture studio.

/ Espai Alfaro

Avinguda del Escultor Andreu Alfaro, 13

A highly inspiring place, the former workshop of sculptor Andreu Alfaro, housing his legacy and the Alfaro Hofmann Collection of product design, as well as the FSA studio and the MArch Valencia postgraduate school.

/ Centro Cultural Hortensia Herrero

C. del Mar, 31

The former Gothic Valeriola Palace, now converted into an art center with a collection featuring top-level works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Sam Scully, Anselm Kiefer, Eduardo Chillida, Manolo Valdés, Juan Genovés, and Andreu Alfaro, among others.

/ Bombas Gens Centro de Artes Digitales

Av. de Burjassot, 54-56

A 19th-century factory designed by Cayetano Borso di Carminati, now converted into a digital arts center. It also includes a Civil War air-raid shelter.

/ Veles e Vents

Edificio Veles e Vents, La Marina de València

A multi-purpose building designed by David Chipperfield for the 2006 America’s Cup, located in the Marina of Valencia. It is characterized by a series of horizontally stacked, offset planes. Its name comes from a poem by Ausiàs March.

/ La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia

C/ de la Llotja, 2

Built by Pere Compte, one of the oldest Gothic civil buildings in Europe, notable for its Solomonically twisted columns and exquisite ribbed vaults.

/ El Umbracle

Av. del Professor López Piñero, 5

A structure within the City of Arts and Sciences complex, opposite the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, formed by a sequence of arches sheltering a landscaped promenade.

/ Central Market

C/ de Palafox, 13

A modernist building considered the largest covered market in Europe, constructed with a metal structure. Its decoration includes references to oranges, the driving force of the Valencian economy at the time of its construction. Today it houses food stalls and café-restaurant spaces.

/ Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas

Carrer del Marquès de Dos Aigües

A Rococo-style building, renowned for its grand alabaster entrance richly ornamented with two atlantes on each side representing the two rivers that give the marquisate its name. Inside, it holds one of the largest ceramic collections as well as notable carriages.

/ Albufera de Valencia

Pobles del Sud

A natural park formed by a shallow coastal lagoon, about one meter deep and nearly 24 km² in area, surrounded by rice fields. It is separated from the sea by a narrow sandy strip with dunes and a pine forest. Its fauna, especially birdlife, is particularly rich. It is located 10 km south of Valencia.

/ Jardín del Turia

Puente de la Exposición

The former riverbed of the Turia River, which once crossed the city from southwest to east, is now a vast garden and one of the most important landscape recovery projects of the 20th century. The regeneration was carried out in sections, each designed by a different team, including figures such as Ricardo Bofill.

/ Valencia Cathedral

Pl. de l'Almoina

The largest church in Valencia, featuring a Romanesque portal, a Gothic one known as the Apostles’ Door, and a Baroque portal that serves as the main entrance today. It has an impressive Gothic crossing tower and Renaissance-style paintings above the altar.

/ Parque Central

C. de les Filipines

A landscape recovery project on a former railway yard now buried underground, over which a large central city garden is being developed based on a design by Kathryn Gustafson. Once completed, it will cover an area of 244,000 m².

/ Parque de Cabecera

Av. Pío Baroja

Connected to the Turia River Garden as one of its endpoints, it integrates vegetation, topography, and water, using the latter as the organizing axis. Everything revolves around a central water channel, in a design by Eduardo de Miguel, Arancha Muñoz, and Vicente Corell.