Major monuments include Valencia Cathedral, the "Torres de Serranos", the "Torres de Quart", the "Llotja de la Seda" (declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996), and the "Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències" (City of Arts and Sciences), an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela.
Mesto se nahaja na bregovih Turia, na vzhodni obali Iberskega polotoka, v zalivu Valencia ob Sredozemskem morju.