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What to see and do in Tavernes de la Valldigna

What to see and do in Tavernes de la Valldigna (La Safor, Valencia): 9 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 2 Nature · 2 Activities · 1 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Tavernes de la Valldigna: festival calendar

March: Fallas of Tavernes de la Valldigna (March 15-19)

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What to see and do in Tavernes de la Valldigna

Tavernes de la Valldigna
Village
Tavernes de la Valldigna is the largest urban centre of the Valldigna, a horseshoe-shaped valley formed by four municipalities in the north of the comarca of La Safor, province of Valencia, which opens onto the Mediterranean with two kilometres of coastline. It has 17,866 inhabitants (INE 2025). Within its municipal area, the Cueva de Bolomor has yielded the oldest evidence of human activity in the Valencian Community, from pre-Neanderthal hominids dating between 347,000 and 242,000 years ago. According to legend, King Jaume II, admiring the beauty of the place, asked the abbot of Santes Creus for a monastery worthy of such a valley, and so in 1298 the Cistercian monastery of Santa María de la Valldigna was born, the most important in the former Kingdom of Valencia. Tavernes was granted the title of city in 1916, by Alfonso XIII.
Festivities of Sant Llorenç i Crist de la Sang de Tavernes de la Valldigna
Activity
Tavernes de la Valldigna's festival combines the pilgrimage of Sant Llorenç, on 10 August, which ends at the hermitage with a popular porrat, with the September patronal festival, which opens and closes with the procession of the Crist de la Sang.
Cave of Bolomor
Nature
The cave of Bolomor is an archaeological site about two kilometres southeast of Tavernes de la Valldigna, in the ravine of the same name, between the Mondúver massif and the Valldigna depression. It has yielded the oldest known hearth on the Iberian Peninsula, dating back 250,000 years, as well as lithic and bone remains and hominid fossils from the Lower Palaeolithic, between 350,000 and 90,000 years BC; these are the oldest settlement remains in the Comunitat Valenciana and the earliest evidence of the domestication of fire on the peninsula. Explored since the 19th century by geologists such as Vilanova i Piera, Leandro Calvo and Henri Breuil, by the early 20th century it was already one of the most important Valencian sites. In 1935, dynamite works destroyed close to 70% of the deposit.
Tower of Guaita de Tavernes de la Valldigna
Monument
The Torre de Guaita is a circular watchtower with defensive features, located next to the beach of Tavernes de la Valldigna. It dates from the 17th century and formed part of the network of coastal watchtowers built to defend against attacks by Barbary pirates along the Mediterranean coast. Its silhouette was depicted on the municipality's coat of arms, according to the 1953 report of the Real Academia de la Historia, which records it as one of its distinctive elements.
Church of San Pedro de Tavernes de la Valldigna
Monument
The church of San Pedro de Tavernes de la Valldigna (Valencia) was a suffragan of the parish of Ràfol de Salem (formerly Rafol de Alfanadec) until 1535, the year it was declared independent. Its restored façade preserves sundials and a side door facing the Monastery of Santa María de la Valldigna, with which the church maintains a direct visual relationship.
Beach of Tavernes de la Valldigna
Nature
The beach of Tavernes de la Valldigna, in the comarca of La Safor, has fine golden sand and stretches for about 2,070 metres of Mediterranean coastline. It has a lifeguard service, a medical clinic and a seafront promenade where various water sports are practised. Next to it lies the beach of la Goleta, about 760 metres long and with similar features, beside which sits the Parc del Llac, an open-air recreation area.
Fallas of Tavernes de la Valldigna
Activity
The Fallas of Tavernes de la Valldigna are held from 15 to 19 March, when the town fills with colour and music with its six fallas committees: la Dula, Prado, la Vía, Passeig, Cambro and Portal de Valldigna.
City title granted in 1916
Historical milestone
Alfonso XIII granted Tavernes the title of city in December 1916, recognising the demographic and economic growth brought by the export of oranges. In a few decades the agricultural town of the valley became one of the largest centres of the comarca.
Arnadí, pumpkin sweet of the Valldigna
Food and drink
The arnadí is a sweet of Andalusi origin made with roasted pumpkin, ground almond, sugar and cinnamon, baked in an earthenware dish and decorated with almonds and pine nuts stuck into it. In the Valldigna it is made above all at Easter and for the patron saint festivities.