Located right on the sea and with balmy weather through most of the year, the third largest city of Spain is magnificent place to be. Alongside Valencia’s elegant Art Nouveau buildings and splendid Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque monuments, two decades of bold development further added to the city’s architectural wealth through the construction of several contemporary buildings and the creation of the phenomenal City of Arts and Sciences - a futuristic architectural masterpiece by Santiago Calatrava. Valencia also boasts some of the best museums in Spain that are surprisingly hassle-free to get into as the city’s relatively low levels of tourism mean you will rarely have to wait in line. Add to this a long stretch of beach, a charming old quarter and one of the finest restaurant scenes in Spain and it becomes easy to see why Valencia is a destination on the rise.