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Street parking is a pain. There are large underground car parks beneath Plazas de
la Reina and Alfonso el Magnánimo and, biggest of all, near the train station, cover-
ing the area between Calle Xàtiva and the Gran Vía.
Public Transport
Most buses run until about 10pm, with seven night services continuing until around
1am. Buy a Móbilis , a touch-sensitive, rechargeable card (€2), sold at major metro
stations, most tobacconists and some newspaper kiosks.
The high-speed tram is a pleasant way to get to the beach port. Pick it up at Pont
de Fusta or where it intersects with the metro at Benimaclet.
Taxi
Call Radio-Taxi (
96 370 33 33) or Valencia Taxi (
96 357 13 13) .
La Tomatina
Buñol? It'll make you see red.
The last or penultimate Wednesday in August (the date varies) marks Spain's messiest
festival. Held in Buñol, an otherwise drab industrial town 40km west of Valencia city, La
Tomatina is a tomato-throwing orgy that attracts more than 40,000 visitors to a town of
just 9000 inhabitants.
At precisely 11am a rocket swooshes skywards and over 100 tonnes of ripe, squishy to-
matoes are tipped from trucks to the waiting crowd. For precisely one hour, until a second
rocket is fired, everyone joins in a frenzied, cheerful, anarchic tomato battle. After being
pounded with pulp, expect to be sluiced down with hoses by the local fire brigade.
The mayhem takes place on the town's main square and Calle del Cid. Most people
come for the day, arriving on the morning train from Valencia and heading back in the af-
ternoon. Don't forget a set of fresh clothes and perhaps a pair of goggles to protect the
eyes.
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