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Discover the Best Nightlife in Valencia: Exclusive Clubs, Trendy Venues, and Unforgettable Events

Valencia, Spain, is known for its rich culture, stunning architecture, and delicious cuisine. But when the sun sets, this vibrant city comes alive with a nightlife scene that attracts partygoers from all over the world. From exclusive clubs to trendy venues, there’s something for everyone in Valencia’s after-dark landscape. In this guide, we’ll explore the best nightclubs near you, the coolest late-night spots, and valuable nightlife tips for making the most of your evening in Valencia.

Exclusive Clubs in Valencia: VIP Experiences and Glitz

For those looking to indulge in the luxury side of Valencia's nightlife, exclusive clubs offer the perfect environment. These venues boast top-notch service, premium cocktails, and glamorous atmospheres where the city’s elite and international visitors gather.

Committee Club Valencia stands out as one of the city's top exclusive spots. Located in the heart of Valencia, this club offers a refined experience with an impressive sound system, live DJ performances, and stylish décor. It’s the place to be if you're looking to party in style. Whether you're celebrating a special occasion or just want to enjoy an unforgettable night, Committee Club Valencia promises an experience you won’t forget.

Another well-known exclusive venue is Mya Club, located in the City of Arts and Sciences. With a chic interior and a selection of the best DJs, Mya offers a high-energy atmosphere where partygoers dance until the early hours of the morning.

Trendy Clubs in Valencia: The Hottest Venues Right Now

Valencia is home to many trendy clubs that keep the city's nightlife scene fresh and exciting. From underground techno spots to pop-and-dance hotspots, these clubs always know how to throw a great party.

La3 Club is a must-visit for those who love electronic music. With its intimate yet buzzing atmosphere, this club brings together top DJs from around the world. The club’s mix of music genres, from techno to house, ensures there’s something for everyone. It’s one of the trendiest spots for locals and tourists alike.

Akuarela Playa is another trendy venue located by the beach. Its blend of outdoor and indoor spaces creates the perfect environment for those who want to enjoy a relaxed yet lively vibe. With regular events and live performances, Akuarela is a favorite for both day and night entertainment.

Nightclubs Near Me in Valencia: Where to Dance All Night Long

If you’re searching for nightclubs near you, Valencia offers a wide variety of venues that cater to all tastes. Whether you’re looking for a glamorous VIP experience or a more laid-back vibe, you’ll find the perfect spot.

For those staying near the city center, L’Umbracle is a top choice. This iconic open-air venue features stunning views of the city, a large dance floor, and some of the best live DJs. It’s an excellent spot for those who love to dance until dawn while soaking in the Valencia skyline.

If you're near the beach, Chango Club is an amazing late-night venue to check out. With its relaxed beachy vibes and electronic music, it’s an ideal location to unwind after a long day.

Late-Night Venues in Valencia: Keep the Party Going

As the night progresses, Valencia's late-night venues offer a perfect setting for after-party fun. If you’re not ready to call it a night just yet, head to one of these late-night hotspots.

Café del Mar Valencia is a great place to extend your evening. With its laid-back yet vibrant atmosphere, it’s an excellent choice for those who want to enjoy cocktails while listening to smooth tunes. The beautiful terrace also offers stunning views of the Mediterranean Sea, making it a perfect spot to unwind after a night of dancing.

Another late-night venue to check out is Bingo Club Valencia, where you can enjoy a unique mix of games, drinks, and music. It’s a bit different from the usual nightclub scene but offers a fun, relaxed vibe that’s perfect for a casual hangout.

Valencia Nightlife Tips: Make the Most of Your Night Out

To ensure you make the most of Valencia’s nightlife scene, here are some valuable tips:

Start Late: The nightlife in Valencia typically starts late, with clubs and bars getting busy around midnight and continuing until 6 AM or later. If you want to experience the full nightlife, make sure you stay up late!

Dress to Impress: Many of Valencia’s exclusive clubs have a dress code, so be sure to dress stylishly. While casual outfits work for some venues, high-end spots often expect a more polished look.

Stay Safe: While Valencia is a relatively safe city, always be aware of your surroundings. Opt for trusted transport methods like taxis or rideshare apps, especially when heading back to your accommodation.

Drink Responsibly: The vibrant nightlife can be tempting, but it's important to pace yourself and enjoy the night without overindulging. Take breaks and stay hydrated.

Valencia Nightlife Events: What’s On

If you're visiting during a special time of year, you’ll be in luck, as Valencia hosts various nightlife events and festivals. From electronic music festivals to glamorous parties at top clubs, there’s always something exciting happening.

Check out Valencia Nightlife for the latest updates on events happening during your stay. Whether you’re interested in seeing a world-renowned DJ or experiencing local festivities, there's always something on the agenda to elevate your nightlife experience.

Conclusion

Valencia’s nightlife offers something for everyone, whether you're seeking exclusive clubs, trendy venues, or late-night hangouts. Clubs like Committee Club Valencia and La3 are the heartbeat of the city's vibrant nightlife scene, while late-night spots like Café del Mar provide a perfect ending to your evening. By following a few nightlife tips and staying informed about the best events, you can make your nights out in Valencia unforgettable.

For more information about the best places to go and what's happening in the city's nightlife scene, check out Valencia Nightlife. Whether you're a local or just visiting, you're sure to have an amazing time exploring Valencia's energetic nightlife!

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The Júcar gorge: Spain’s very own grand canyon | Travel

The young woman in Alcalá del Júcar’s tourist office seems surprised when we say we have come from England. “How did you find us?” she asks. “Nobody knows about this place.” Nobody, she means, except the Spanish, and even for them, Alcalá is far from famous.

Alcala map

In La Manchuela, in central Spain, Alcalá is one of a string of villages in the Júcar canyon, a spectacular limestone gorge running for some 40km through the province of Albacete. I more or less fell in love with the place before I got here. First, I’d been seduced by a photograph of Jorquera – a village on a rock that looked so magical, I couldn’t quite believe it wasn’t computer-generated. Then I heard about a new boutique cave hotel nearby (Xuq – more on that later).

And Alcalá, I read (thanks to Google Translate) “is a wonder to discover … a place of unique natural environments and a very unique architecture”.

It has quite a lot in common with Matera – the rock-hewn city in Basilicata, southern Italy, which is currently enjoying a year as a European Capital of Culture. Like Matera, many of Júcar’s villages are carved from the cliffs of a gorge; both have underground tunnels, grotto-like cave dwellings and medieval roots. But while Matera is struggling to cope with visitor numbers, Júcar’s inspiring landscapes (Alcalá was named a site of special historic and artistic heritage in 1982) remain largely unknown. So if you don’t fancy elbowing your way through the Sassi di Matera, this could be a quieter, more adventurous alternative.

Alcalá del Júcar on the edge of the gorge. Photograph: Alamy

We arrive from Alicante – a two-hour drive. One minute we are rolling across the grassy plains of Castilla-La Mancha, the next we plunge into the gorge. On empty roads, hugging the banks of the River Júcar, we loop around giant rocky outcrops, slip under bulges of limestone overhang and zigzag up and down vertiginous cliffs. There are views to take your breath away at every hairpin bend. My husband, Dave, is wishing he’d brought his bike (he says it again – “this is better than the Alps”).

The young woman from the tourist office – Petra, a Slovakian, married to a local lad she met on a kayaking holiday – jumps at the chance to practise her rusty English and takes us on a walking tour of her adopted home.

We begin with the castle, a Moorish fortress perched atop a tower of rock with dizzy views of Alcalá as it tumbles downhill, slipping into folds and fissures of the valley and leaning into its rugged limestone walls. Petra points out the egg-shaped bullring (which may be Roman), the Roman bridge (which isn’t), and the 15th-century bell tower of San Andrés church. Alcalá’s uneven terraces of white and terracotta houses look as though they have been pressed into the rock. Half-house, half-cave seems to be the norm around here.

Alcalá, with Júcar bridge and fortress atop the crag. Photograph: Getty Images

Casa Cueva el Castillo is a once-ruined cave house that has been restored and turned into a mini-museum. The dug-out rooms once lived in by peasant farmers (nobody seems sure exactly when) have fresh white paint and are filled with rustic furniture, pottery and old farm tools. To add authenticity, there are live chickens in the yard, and a donkey called Margarita in a rock-cut stable.

Donkeys aside, hundreds of Júcar’s caves, just like this one, are still inhabited. There are cave rooms under our feet, Petra tells us, as we walk the cobbled streets down to the river. Some are open to the public – if you can find them.

An inconspicuous doorway leads into the Cave of King Garaden – a vast subterranean palace used as a stronghold in the 12th century, with a 170-metre tunnel that takes us under the castle to a medieval lookout cut high in the gorge. The passage, which is cool, dank and dimly lit, probably hasn’t changed in hundreds of years.

From here a staircase takes us down to Cuevas del Diablo, named after its current owner – El Diablo, a nickname he picked up in childhood. A poet and former bullfighter with a waxed Salvador Dalí moustache, this “devil” has furnished his warren of caves – some of which he dug himself – with a large and eccentric collection of vintage stuff (sewing machines, radios, guns, cash registers, numerous Diablo selfies). At one time, he ran a nightclub here: a glitter ball still sprinkles light on the craggy walls of a cave the size of a ballroom.

Cuevas del Diablo

The €3 entry fee includes Garaden’s cave, a drink from the bar there and entry to Alcalá’s disused cinema. Another Diablo enterprise, this too is crowded with curious collectables (a stuffed gorilla in a telephone box, rusty farm implements, a horseless cart) but high up on the balcony, rows of hard bench seats and an original projector recall this atmospheric relic’s silent-movie roots.

At Café Masago, in another street, in another cave, at the end of another long tunnel, we eat slow-cooked partridge with white beans and a gazpacho manchego – a rustic La Manchuela stew of rabbit or chicken (or both) cooked with squares of unleavened bread. Seated at a circular window cut into the stone, we are at the penthouse level of the gorge, with views of the river a hundred metres or so below.

The sinuous Júcar is a green snake of a river, flanked by forest, river beaches and allotments: the latter a patchwork of fruit trees, almonds, olives and neat rows of lettuce. Traditionally this was a market garden economy; now the area specialises in adventure sports (kayaking, rafting, rock climbing, hiking, cycling and canyoning among others). Groups of canoeing (often shrieking) children in orange life jackets are a common sight on the river, which offers miles of rocks and rapids stretching all the way to Cuenca, nearly two hours’ drive to the north.

There are several cheap hostales in Alcalá, but we spend the night in one of its cave-house holiday homes. Casa Cueva Las Tinajas de Naya (sleeps six from €300) resembles a normal village house from the outside but inside, three windowless double bedrooms have been scooped out of the rock – dark, womb-like and completely silent, other than the hum of a dehumidifier.

The River Júcar in its gorge near Cuenca. Photograph: Alamy

In the morning, we follow the Júcar to Tolosa, a tiny hamlet 6km to the east, where the river widens and the vertical gorge is green with aromatic forests of juniper and pine. The place is deserted, but the stone-built AvenJúcar hostel (bed €32pp B&B) advertises energetic group experiences (such as paddleboarding, rafting and hiking) so it’s probably not always so tranquil.

In the opposite direction, Jorquera – half an hour’s drive from Alcalá, is the walled medieval village whose photograph brought me here. From a bend in the road that climbs out of the gorge, we stop to take a photograph: perched on a lump of rock, with the river wrapped around its base like a moat, Jorquera looks like a floating island.

With one tiny shop and a restaurant-bar that isn’t open, deserted Jorquera seems locked in a time-warp but at the foot of its cliff we find an unexpected pocket of 21st-century cool. A glassy new-build restaurant, La Playa has tables on a jetty over the river, a manmade beach with parasols, a menu of modern takes on Spanish classics (grilled octopus, seafood paella, patatas bravas), decent prices (starters from €8, mains from €14) and staff who speak good English, a rarity around here (at last, no need for Google Translate).A few kilometres further on, we cross the river on a narrow, rather rickety bridge and check into Xuq (suites from €124 B&B), the aforementioned boutique “apart hotel” with eight groovy suites tucked into the walls of the gorge.

The hotel was created by friends Victor Pinedo and Fernando Monteagudo, who left their jobs (in engineering and accountancy), bought a row of rundown, middle-of-nowhere cave dwellings, and embarked on a “new concept in rural tourism”. They took the name from Xuquer (Arabic for Júcar) and jazzed up the cave rooms with memory foam pillows, original art, retro fridges, dinky kitchenettes and designer furniture (the odd Eames chair). Nearly every room has an oversized spa bath (some of them sunk into the rock); some have shower rooms and all feature bumpy walls of natural limestone.

A bedroom at the Xuq hotel, with bumpy limestone wall

From here there’s plenty of walking and cycling (there are bikes to borrow), and towns and villages to explore. Xuq doesn’t serve food other than a continental breakfast buffet and although all the rooms have a kitchenette, the nearest supermarket is in Alcalá.

One of the owners’ objectives, they say, is to spread the word about their region – and it seems to be working. The hotel is full, mostly with young couples swapping Madrid or Valencia for the soothing rush of the river in its canyon, and the smell of pines and wild rosemary. Overtourism is a long way off.

• Accommodation was provided by Xuq (doubles from €124 B&B). Alcalá del Júcar is two-and-a-half hours’ drive from Madrid, or just under two hours from Valencia or Alicante. More information from lamanchuelarural.com

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