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Paterna
City and municipality in Valencian Community, Spain

Paterna

Paterna is a city and a municipality in the province of Valencia in the Valencian Community, Spain.

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It is located northeast of the comarca of L'Horta de València, 5 kilometres northwest of the inland suburbs of Valencia, and on the left bank of the river Turia. Its population in 2014 was 67,156 inhabitants, being the eleventh biggest city by population in the Valencian Community.

Get in

Getting to Paterna

The city is most easily reached by Valencia's metro 1, which stops at

  1. 01
    Paterna

    From Valencia a one-way fare costs €2.10, and a round trip fare costs €4.

See

Worth seeing

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    Torre Mudèjar

    This defensive tower is believed to have been built in the Moorish period sometime between the 11th and 12th centuries, as a square tower.

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    Parque de la Torre

    It is believed that the custom of living in cave dwellings is Moorish in origin, and was not uncommon in areas of Andalucia.

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    Espai Cultural Coves del Batà
  4. 04
    Museu de Ceràmica
  5. 05
    Església de Sant Pere

    Built in the 14th century on the site that had been occupied by the town mosque, and remodelled in the 18th century.

Do

Things to do

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    Falles

    As in neighbouring Valencia, this annual celebration is dedicated to San Josep (San José / St.

  2. 02
    La Cordà

    Carrer Major (btw Carrer de Sant Antoni and Carrer Mestre Soler).

  3. 03
    Kinépolis

    Avinguda de Francisco Tomàs I Valiente, s/n (in the Heron City Paterna shopping centre),.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Restaurante la Fuente

    C/ Villa de Madrid, s/n (Polígono Industrial Fuente del Jarro),.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.