Valencia Nightlife: Places and Districts to Go Out in Valencia
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Well known across Spain for the quality, variety and sheer unrelenting nature of its nightlife, the word’s also gotten out further afield in recent years. ‘Valencianos’ enjoy a good party as much as any city in Spain, (a country of party-lovers) and for many of the younger generation sleep is a commodity best left for when they get older!
To the north of the city center, the narrow streets of Carme have their own trendily alternative scene. Here, a bunch of smoky, bohemian places and atmospheric ‘tascas’ (taverns) huddle together at the south end of Calle Alta and around the Plaza del Musico Lopez Chavarri and, a little to the east, on Calle de Caballeros.
East of the center, the area of Canovas has a much more mainstream, but no less lively, feel to its nightlife. The streets around Calle Comte Altea, Calle Salamanca and (just to the north) Calle de Morales Serrano are all packed with noisy bars and a couple of clubs.
Out to the northeast of the city, the university district is similarly lively. There’s a concentration of places tightly packed in around Calle Juan Llorens and Avenida Blasco Ibanez where the city’s student population go in search of the best of ‘La Movida’, or 'the action.'
As summer rolls around, this shifts emphasis to the open-air bars on Malavarossa and La Floridita. Here, on warm evenings, the bars of the Paseo Marítimo and Paseo Netuno, and those that line the beaches, are full to bursting with tanned, thirsty people fresh from a scorching hot day in the sun.
To see how Valencians really party, however, a trip to the city during Las Fallas (running up to Saint Joseph's Day on March 19th every year) is an absolute must. Each neighborhood creates a large effigy which is eventually burned, but not before all the communities converge onto the streets where firecrackers and fireworks fill the air.
But the exuberant partying of Las Fallas is a pinnacle of, rather than an exception to, nightlife in the city. The rest of the year may not quite scale those giddy heights but nor is it ever exactly a place that’s reluctant to have a good time.