Valencia walking tours compared: pay-what-you-wish old-town tours, €15 to €20 paid walks and the €49 tour with the tickets included

💡 The Short Version: Walkative’s pay-what-you-wish old-town tour is 2 hours 30 minutes in English, with obligatory booking. Paid walks start at €15 (2 hours) and €20 (the Essentials tour, with the Lonja entry). The €49 Valencia & Go tour includes the cathedral, San Nicolás and the Lonja: the tickets are €30 on their own, so the guide costs about €19. Visit València’s own Holy Grail tour is €18 with the cathedral ticket, on Fridays at 10:00. On Mondays the €49 tour replaces San Nicolás with the Ayuntamiento, whose visits are suspended. The Tourist Card takes up to 15% off. Or book now: the old-town tour with ticketsad is from €49 and the Essentials walking tourad from €20 (GetYourGuide).

The tours compared

Prices are the operators’ own, or GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price, per adult.

Pay-what-you-wish tours

Walkative · 2 hours 30 minutes · English · book ahead

Walkative runs two tours in Valencia, and you decide what to pay at the end.

• Welcome to Valencia, the old town: from Plaza de la Ciudad de Brujas, past the Central Market, the Lonja, the cathedral and the Torres de Serranos, ending at Plaza de la Crida. Look for the guide with the yellow umbrella.
• Modern Valencia, the city beyond the old town: 2 hours 30 minutes, rated 5.0 from 11 reviews.

Booking is obligatory. Groups of 8 or more cannot join the pay-what-you-wish tours; they book the €20 paid option or a private tour. The tours run in all weather and are cancelled only in extreme weather, if a guide is ill, or if fewer than 5 people have registered. The old-town tour is suitable for pushchairs and reduced mobility. FREETOUR.com is a booking marketplace that lists 156 Valencia tours in English and other languages.

Paid walks

Essentials and World Heritage Sites

From €20 · 2 hours · up to 20 people · English

Visit València’s own shop sells the Essential Valencia tour from €20 (4.8 from 41 reviews, 10% off with the Tourist Card), and GetYourGuide lists the Turiart versionad at the same €20, up to 20 people, meeting at Carrer de Xàtiva 24A. It is built around the city’s three UNESCO properties: the Lonja de la Seda, the Water Tribunal and the Fallas. The Lonja entry (€2 on its own) is in the price. The listing also names the Ayuntamiento, whose visits are suspended.

Historical walking tour of the old town

From €15 · 2 hours to 2 hours 15 minutes · English, Italian, Spanish

DescubreValencia’s tourad starts at either the Torres de Serranos or Plaza Redonda and passes the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the old bullring, the cathedral, the Lonja, the railway station and the Central Market, with an official guide.

The fountain and shop kiosks of the Plaza Redonda. Photo: Joanbanjo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cathedral, San Nicolás and the Lonja

From €49 · 3 to 4 hours · tickets included

The Valencia & Go tourad starts at the Torres de Serranos and visits San Nicolás, the Lonja and the cathedral, and crosses the Plaza de la Reina and the Plaza de la Virgen. It is the only tour here with three tickets in the price. On Mondays it replaces San Nicolás with a visit to the Ayuntamiento, whose visits are suspended, so check before booking a Monday. Languages include English, French, German, Italian and Polish, and a private option is available.

Cathedral only

Visit València, Friday at 10:00, €18 · GetYourGuide from €19.50

Visit València’s tour, “Valencia, city of the Holy Grail”, is 2 hours with the cathedral ticket, on Fridays at 10:00, with 15% off on the Tourist Card. GetYourGuide’s guided tour with the ticket and a headsetad is 85 minutes and is labelled “fast-track”; the cathedral prints no queue, so that buys the guide, not a quicker entry. The ticket alone is €12: cathedral tickets.

Other ways to walk

• On your own: the old town walk is a 3.9 km self-guided route from Xàtiva metro station to the Torres de Serranos with the opening days of each stop, and the Turia Gardens walk carries on from the towers along the old riverbed to the City of Arts and Sciences.
• Themed tours: Visit València also sells a Sorolla tour on Sundays for €20 (2 hours, Spanish and English) and a Fallas tour on Saturdays at 10:30 for €35.
• Food and wine: Valencia food tours compares the market and tapas walks.
• On wheels: Valencia bike tours and the tuk-tuk tours, such as the tuk-tuk sightseeing tourad from €24.98, cover the longer distances.

Before you go

• The thing that ruins a tour: the day. On Sundays the cathedral opens only from 14:00 and the Central Market is closed; on Mondays San Nicolás admits no visitors. Tuesday to Saturday suits every tour above.
• Which to take: Walkative if you want the cheapest introduction; the €20 Essentials tour for the Lonja; the €49 tour if you will visit all three monuments; the tickets alone if you want no guide.

Things to do in Valencia ranks the sights, and the Tourist Card sums say whether its tour discounts pay. The Lonja and the Central Market are on every route. Where to stay in Valencia compares the areas, and what to book before you go to Valencia lists the closed days.