Álvaro Moliner

Valencia


Drop into this venerable, courteous shop to admire the fabulous colours and designs used to create traditional valenciana outfits for the Fallas.


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Nearby Valencia attractions

1. Museo Nacional de Cerámica

0.09 MILES

Inside a striking palace, this ceramics museum celebrates an important local industry. Downstairs (which also features a decadent hand-painted 1753…

2. Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas

0.09 MILES

Quite a sight from outside, this immoderate palace has a pair of wonderfully extravagant rococo caryatids curling around the main entrance. The exterior…

3. Iglesia de Santa Catalina

0.14 MILES

This church, badly knocked about in the civil war, is starkly impressive inside. It’s dwarfed by the striking late-17th-century hexagonal baroque bell…

4. Centro Cultural La Nau

0.16 MILES

Long the headquarters of the University of Valencia, with a harmonious cloister-courtyard that's worth popping into. It's lined with plaques of notable…

5. Ayuntamiento

0.16 MILES

Valencia’s handsome neoclassical town hall dominates the square that takes its name. Within is the Museo Histórico Municipal, a repository of items…

6. Museo del Patriarca

0.17 MILES

This seminary was founded in the late 16th century by San Juan de Ribera, a towering Counter-Reformation figure who wielded enormous spiritual and…

7. Mercado Central

0.19 MILES

Valencia’s vast Modernista covered market, constructed in 1928, is a swirl of smells, movement and colour. Spectacular seafood counters display…

8. La Lonja

0.21 MILES

This splendid building, a Unesco World Heritage Site, was originally Valencia’s silk and commodity exchange, built in the late 15th century when the city…