Fallas 2012 in Valencia are held between 15 and 19th March. Almost 400 Fallas monuments of cardboard are planted with gigantic figures that often exceed 20 meters height. The main theme or issue is usually satiric. These monuments compete for several awards.

In Home Hostels Valencia we have chosen several Fallas events that you cannot miss during your stay at Valencia City in Fallas festival

Fallas 2012 Mascletas (daylight fireworks)

The pyrotechnic shows “Mascletas” are one of the main elements of this Valencian Festival. Gunpowder and pyrotechnics have always been linked to Valencia festivals.

Mascletás are carried out every day at 2:00 pm from March 1 until 19^th March in Plaza del Ayuntamiento (City Hall Square) . They are very appreciated by people from Valencia, but it is also a firecrackers show not very understood by tourists until they attend one of them. You should be next to the place where pyrotechnical products explode, because it is not about seeing, but feeling and hearing.

Fallas 2012 fireworks

During Fallas festival, from 15 to 19 March, every night there are fireworks that take place at night throughout the old Turia River around 00:00 pm.

The Flowers Offer “Ofrenda”

The Desamparados Virgin is the saint of the city of Valencia and the Valencian Community. The “Ofrenda” Flowers Offer to Virgin is carried out on 17 and 18th March. Every fallera offers a bouquet of flowers making a spectacular tapestry of flowers as a mantle that covers the body of the Virgin which is about 14 meters height.

Saturday March 17 Flowers Offer “Ofrenda” starts, falleras go through Calle San Vicente (San Vicente Street) and Calle de la Paz (La paz Street) until Plaza de la Virgen (Virgin Square) at 3:30 pm. Sunday March 18 They follow the same way at the same time. From Home Hostels Valencia you can walk to Ofrenda, is just 15 minutes walking.

Fallas 2012 burning “Crema”

Fallas burn the last day: 19^th March honouring Saint Joseph. This day at 00:00 am nearly 400 Fallas monuments burn in Valencia streets, city temperature rises and the aerial view is a city disappearing among huge bonfires

It is a unique experience because it symbolizes the end of Fallas 2012 festival and the beginning of next Fallas.

Hostel for Fallas 2012 in Valencia City

Home Hostels Valencia are located in the Valencia City centre, Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers hostel are centrally located, just a few steps walking from Mascletas in Plaza del Ayuntamiento (City Hall Square) and where main Fallas monuments are: Valencia old town. The day of the Flowers Offer “Ofrenda” you can reach it in a few minutes walking and have a nice view of the Virgin

Home Hostels Valencia are very cheap accommodation centrally located and next to all Fallas events.

Home Youth Hostel, a low cost hostel, has the best view from its balconies; you can be witness of the Dr. Collado Falla burning in the front row. The view is unbeatable.

Both hostels, Home Backpackers and Youth Hostel are two cheap hostels, placed at the core of Valencia Fallas. If you are coming to Valencia for Fallas or any other festival and looking for cheap accommodation come to Home Hostels Valencia you will feel like at home.

Fallas in Valencia are the main festivals of the city with a deeply rooted tradition in Valencia. Fallas Valencia 2012 take place from 15 to 19th March. This Valencia Festival has become an important tourist attraction. Fallas are listed as Fiestas of International Tourist Interest in Spain

There is a popular version of the Fallas origin. The old story tells that they were initiated by carpenters during the night of Saint Joseph when burning into a purifying fire the old junk and surplus chips, this way cleaning their workshops at the same time as welcoming the imminent start of spring in their lives. This tradition has evolved to the present day. The art of Fallas has generated monuments larger than 30 metres height. Today the Fallas move nearly a million tourists annually. There are 385 Fallas monuments in the city of Valencia and more than 250 in the rest of the province.

Low cost Hostels in the heart of Fallas 2012 in Valencia city centre

The low cost hostels Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel have an unbeatable location to enjoy Fallas in Valencia: Valencia City Centre, the heart of Fallas Festival. Both hostels are two cheap accommodation centrally located, easy for walking to see the most important Fallas monuments, mascletas in Plaza del Ayuntamiento (City Hall Square), night fireworks and Ofrenda de Flores (Flowers Offer to Virgin).

Enjoy your stay at Home Youth Hostel or Home Backpackers Hostel, both hostels are two budget accommodation in Valencia City with the same services as a Valencia Inn, but with much more colour and fun.

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Carnival costume party at Home Hostels Valencia!

Your place to be is at Home Backpackers Hostel.

Come with an original costume on Saturday February 18, Carnival Party starts at 7:30 pm.

GET DRESSED UP! If you show up in a costume you get a little surprise, and if you have the best costume you will even get a reward!! So get dressed, have fun and let’s get this party started!

Home Backpackers Hostel Valencia

Carnival Party will be at Home Backpackers Hostel placed in Carmen Neighbourhood (Barrio del Carmen), just in Valencia City Centre.

Come to this nice, funny and chill-out Hostel in Valencia and enjoy your holidays in sunny Valencia City!!!

Photo: Javier Gragera

Address: C/ Museo, 2 – 4, 46003 Valencia, Spain

The museum Centro del Carmen is an old convent very close to Home Hostels Valencia. It is situated in the old town of Valencia. The museum is an architectural mixture; it was built to offer a place to refuge for friars of the religious order Santa María del Monte Carmelo. Nowadays, nine centuries later, the Centro del Carmen is an amazing and majestic stage for art exhibitions.

The monastery gardens of Centro del Carmen

The Centro del Carmen has been founded in 1281. In its origins, the old convent was constituted of a church and a few common rooms located around the monastery garden. The garden was built in a gothic style. Later, in the 16th century the convent was growing, they built a second monastery garden, but now in renaissance style. At this time, it was as well the most splendid and prosperous time for the city of Valencia and the Valencian economy.

The Gothic and the Renaissance monastery gardens are the main architectural attractions of the old convent. Both represent the spirit of two different historical eras. The visitor of Centro del Carmen lives a voyage through history of art just by passing the entrance door.

Moreover, for the neighbours of El Carmen, Carmen Neighbourhood which is centrally located, just in the Valencia City Centre, the gardens are as well a calm place to be: you can enjoy a walk through the shadows freshness from the colonnade, and you will feel like being away in a different world. Therefore it is possible forgetting the big, noisy city behind the antique walls of the old building.

A convent reinvented as Museum

The old convent has been declared as a public building in the 19th century. The Spanish government demanded at that time the building from the church, and they converted it to a museum of religious relics, and a part, it is as well the main office of Valencian Art school: Escuela de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes.

The decision to reform the building and transform it to a public cultural space was taken not long time ago, at the end of the last century. Therefore, the old rooms where life of monkhood has taken place like the refectory, the main hall or dormitories are now amazing exhibition halls where time seems to be stuck into the walls.

At this time the Centro del Carmen is a polyvalent space that exhibits mainly works of Valencian artists and about the Valencian history of art of the 19th and 20th century. Right now the Centro del Carmen exhibits a temporal sample of one of the most representative Valencian artist: Joaquín Sorolla.

Hostels nearby the Centro del Carmen in Valencia City Centre

Home Hostels Valencia has two vintage and low cost hostels: Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel. They are situated in the neighbourhood of El Carmen, this is one of the most attractive and nightlife area of Valencia City Centre. There is as well the location of the old convent Centro del Carmen.

Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel are cheap accommodation; they are centrally located, trendy accommodation for backpackers, university students, Erasmus, funny and curious travellers… Both centrally located hostels offer free in-room lockers, free Internet and WIFI connection, all included in the price.

If you are thinking about travelling to Valencia, sunny holidays in Valencia City and besides visiting the Museum Centro del Carmen, book your accommodation at the hostels Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel. They are two options for sleeping cheap with the same services as a Valencia Inn.

Museum Centro del Carmen Localization – Valencia City Centre

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The Central Market of Valencia (Mercado Central) has his origins in the Arabic periods of Valencia; anyhow you will see a modern architecture of the year 1914. It’s one of the most fascinating and genius places of Valencia. The central market is a sensorial experience. You will find it in the old town of the city, just next to the Hôme Hostel Valencia. See, smell, listen, and of course taste; your five senses will be revolutioned during your stroll through hundreds of little food market stands.

The Central Market is notable for its vitality, its freshness, its daily life. For these reasons, the Central Market is a must for travellers who want to feel the vital pulse of the city, for those who enjoy the social spectacle, unsweetened, of Valencia.

The “Cathedral of the Good Taste”

With over a thousand years of history, the Central Market of Valencia as we know it, sheltered under a sturdy iron roof, windows and domes, was opened in 1928. Its unique architectural structure and light spectacular modernist style has earned him the nickname the “Cathedral of the Good Taste”.

A space that exudes humanity

But beyond its architectural or historic value, the Central Market seduces all who visit it because it is a space that exudes humanity. The Central Market Square has a large, urban amphitheatre, a monument erected to support life, human contact.

Inside, the food is drawn from its status as a commercial product, and in contrast to a supermarket, what it sells doesn’t appeal because of its price or design of its label, but by its quality or the person who is behind the counter. Shopping becomes an exchange between people, not a cold business transaction, as if it was a romantic gesture, ancestral, almost a trip back in time and space. And that, today, is a luxury that is priceless.

Hostels next to Valencia Central Market

Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel, both low cost hostels of Home Hostels Valencia, are located in Valencia City Centre in Carmen Neighbourhood one of the most attractive and lively areas of Valencia old town. Home Youth Hostel, in particular, is a cheap hostel very close to the Plaza del Mercado, one of the key centres of the city, because there you can find both the symbolic and gothic building Silk Market and the Central Market, all in the center of the city.

Home Youth Hostel has an enviable location for those gourmet lovers because of the short walk to the Central Market where you can buy local produce, fresh, of high quality, and then cook in the kitchen of the hostel, whose space is open for use and free to all guests. Home Youth hostels is the perfect cozy and vintage accommodation next to Central Market like a Valencia Inn. This is a unique opportunity to develop traditional recipes with particular ingredients of the area, feeling with the stove in the kitchen of the hostel as if you were in your own home, spending less money and enjoying the culinary virtues of Spanish food.

Both Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel are two cheap hostels, located in the heart of Valencia, and designed for backpackers, students, Erasmus, daring and restless travellers… Both low cost hostels offer lockers in all rooms, all included in the price, plus free internet and WIFI, better and cheaper accommodation than a guesthouse in Valencia.

Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel are two clear examples that sleeping cheap in Valencia is possible. Budget accommodation, hostels centrally located with cheap beds and rooms where you can enjoy your stay in the city of Valencia.

Do you know the Tapas and Flamenco Tour of Home Hostels Valencia?

Every Tuesday and Sunday starts the Flamenco and Tapas Tour from Hôme Hostels Valencia through the city center.

The tour includes Tapas and Flamenco shows at different places in the old town of Valencia very close to Hôme Hostels Valencia at the Carmen neighbourhood.

The tour includes:

3 drinks (sangria / beer / wine)

3 tapas

Flamenco show

Price: 16 Euros

Meeting point: at 8pm. at the fountain of Plaza de la Virgen

For 24 Euros you can join as well the bar tour in the city center.

Hostels centrally located

Our low cost hostels in Valencia: Home Youth Hostel and Home Backpackers Hostel are centrally located at the heart of Valencia city. They are just a few steps from the main places to visit in Valencia such as the Silk Market (Lonja de la Seda) or Central Market (Mercado Central). The hostels are budget accommodation with free in-room lockers, free internet. They have cheap bunks bed dorms but if you do not like bunk bed dorms go to Home Youth Hostel placed in the Carmen Neighbourhood, city centre of Valencia without bunk beds!!!

Home Hostels Valencia are like Valencia Inns but cheaper and with more services like free linen and free internet. Our low cost hostels are located in the best areas of Valencia like the Carmen Neighbourhood, full of young people.

If you are an international traveller looking for cheap accommodation in Valencia come to our low tariff hotels and enjoy the best of Valencia!!

“Lonja de la seda” is an old Silk Market in the middle age. It is placed in the middle of the Valencian old town, next to Home Hostels Valencia and it’s a masterpiece of the gothic architecture. Historians, artists and any Valencian you ask will consider “la Lonja de la Seda” as the most beautiful gothic building all over Spain. Even UNESCO declared this unique building as a world heritage. Therefore if you want to know the real history of Valencia you must visit the silk market.

Neither a castle nor a church, but an old commerce place

The old Silk Market represents a mystery. Its appearance leads to confusion. Looking at the huge tower some people would think about a castle. Other people, having a closer look at the decorated main door, the windows, the columns and the wide space would consider it as a church. But surprisingly it’s not a castle or a church; it is an old market for silk exchange.

A heritage of the Valencian “Gold century”

“La Lonja” shows with elegance and purity the splendour of the medieval Valencia. Built in the 15th century, it was the place where the silk traders met to make business, fix the prices and close deals. The “Golden century” was a time Valencia’s economy was growing a lot and its port was the silk trade connection throughout the Mediterranean Sea. The prosperity of the commerce was important for the upcoming Valencian bourgeoisie who aimed to create a city according their social status.

The large columnar hall is the main space, and it is just telling about the social prestige and the economic ostentation. This hall represents with its eight columns the most fascinating and genuine image of Valencia. Those impressive pillars are bent on themselves and reach the roof which seems to be unreachable.

The “Lonja de la Seda” it’s for sure the most beautiful heritage of the Valencian “Golden Age”.

The hostel next to “Lonja de la Seda” (Silk Market) in Valencia

Home Hostels Valencia are two hostels called Youth Hostel and Backpackers Hostel which are placed in the Carmen neighbourhood. This is the most attractive and lively area of the city center. Home Youth Hostel is located just behind the “Lonja de la Seda”. The low cost hostel and the silk market (Lonja de la Seda) are divided just by a narrow street.

The view from the balconies of the Youth Hostel is priceless. The high proximity of both buildings allows you to contemplate closely at the elaborate ornamentation of Gothic architecture, and as well the gargoyles of the roof seem to be so close that you could reach and touch them.

Youth Hostel and Backpackers are two cheap hostels located at the heart of Valencia City. They are cheap accommodation for backpackers, students, Erasmus and restless travellers… Room prices include free internet, and free in room lockers.

The cheapest and best hostels in Valencia are Home Youth hostel and Home Backpackers hostel, in Valencia downtown just next to the Silk Market, vintage accommodation like a Valencia Inn but even better. Come to Valencia Home Hostels and discover our budget accommodation placed in the old town of Valencia!!

For 10 euros you can participate in the Tapas Tour. The tour includes Tapas and Drinks in several Tapas Restaurants around Valencia. Tapas Tour starts everyday at 2:30 pm in “Plaza de la Vigen” meeting Point.

For more information ask in the Hall of Home Hostels Valencia. Home Backpackers Hostel and Home Youth Hostel are two hostels placed in the City Center of Valencia for international travellers, backpackers, students… these youth hostels are cheap and clean accommodation in the heart of the City.

Hostel in the City Centre of Valencia

Our Youth hostels in Valencia have lockers inside rooms, free internet and free linen. They have cheap bunks bed dorms but if you do not like bunk bed dorms go to Home Youth Hostel placed in the Carmen Neighbourhood, city centre of Valencia without bunk beds!!!

Home Hostels Valencia are like Valencia Inns or guesthouses but cheaper and with more services like free internet. Our low cost hostels are located in the best areas of Valencia like the Carmen Neighbourhood, full of young people.

If you are an international traveller looking for cheap lodging in Valencia come to our low tariff hotels and enjoy the best of Valencia!!

Do not miss the chance to stay in the cheapest and best youth Hostel in Valencia!!!

What about a Party Monday in Valencia?

Get the best start of your week, come to Supersonic Monday at Radio City, special DJ session from different part of the world.

Radio City is placed in Carmen Neighbourhood very close to Home Hostels Valencia, the best and cheapest youth Hostel in Valencia.

And if you show you Home Hostels Valencia card you get a free Mojito!!!

Cheap hostels in Valencia

Home Hostels Valencia are youth hostels for backpackers, international travellers, students…placed in the City Centre of Valencia, next to Central Market and Silk Market. Very cheap hotel in Valencia and extremely clean. Come and enjoy our low cost hostels!!!

In the mid 20th century a young guy called Charlie stayed in this hostel, due to good quality service and value. When he arrived there was a young Italian receptionist in the hall. She was asleep on her knees but as soon as she heard John’s steps, she woke up immediately. Charlie asked for a room, but a single one just for him as he didn’t want to share. The nice receptionist told him that there was just one single room but warned him about it, because no customer wanted this room. A foreigner called John committed suicide in this room years ago.

A slight smile grew on Charlie’s face. He didn’t pay attention to the receptionist´s warning. He asked for John’s room and at nightfall in Valencia, Charlie exhausted fell asleep. When he was sleeping deeply, somebody whispered “Charlie, Charlie, Charlie…”. He got up and looked around searching for somebody but he didn’t see anyone. He fell asleep again and after 15 minutes again the same voice but deeper; “Charlie, Charlie, Charlie…”. He got up frightened and went to the bathroom, suddenly he saw the face of a young man in the mirror. He turned around and asked the guy who he was and what he was doing in his room. The guy replied “I am John”. The face of Charlie became pale, as John continued talking; “this is my room, what are you doing here?”.

Charlie couldn’t say a word, his lips were paralyzed due to terror. John said “you were rude to me, you should not have stayed in this room and for that you will die”. Charlie could not react and John holding a knife moved closer to Charlie. Charlie only had two options: let John kill him or jumpthrough the window, hoping to survive. Without thinking, as a survival instinct he jumped and fell in front of the Hostel entrance. All his bones were broken and he knew he had just a few minutes left. From the floor he saw through the window John smiling but little by little his figure disappeared in the dark.

Moral of the story: do not sleep alone and if your room mate is called John change the room.

Come to Halloween Party at Home Hostels Valencia and you may find John!!!