all right guys adventure elliott coming to you from park
on the map it's in the valencia language so i'm not sure if i pronounce it right
but basically it's a urban park that runs through the city a narrow park and you can just
keep walking it or biking it or running it for kilometers eventually i will end up near the city
center which is where i'll end the video but it is a really beautiful park and you need to see this
it's really nice how in spain in particular but i'm sure other european countries that i'm not so
aware of really combine the the urban with the rural architecture right so this is landscape
design and architecture beautifully infused with the urban landscape to each side of the park
is basically urbanizations and city structures and the same can happen in madrid barcelona
where you're in the city but just a few minutes walking and you feel like you're really in nature
you have some peace and quiet a lot of safety i especially like to go to casa del campo
in madrid and if i lived in valencia i would be here every day for sure walking through this park
also if you want to grab a bite to eat there's probably more than one of these in the park
a little terrace to sit down at with spectacular views and weather and likely
fair prices maybe a little more expensive than outside of the park but just a really
good environment to relax during the afternoon as you see this lady's here enjoying her book
a little skate park
the park is just continuous and here we have some sort of different structure some pillars
here is some sort of performance center
a venue behind there and another little lake here with some pillars and palm trees
all right so i got some clarification i talked with a valencian walking through the park and
he says this was an old river and it makes sense it's lower called rio turia t-u-r-i-a and
now it's turned into a garden and when it rains a lot when there's extra water obviously they have
drainage systems underneath all of this that goes into the port and into the ocean so this is a
old riverbed that was part of valencia and so i guess you could call this parqueturia something
like that because of the old riverbed and it makes sense with all the greenery that the water
would support all these gardens and green spaces here in the city so parqueturia
so i'm going to walk up this bridge and go into the city a little bit because
i need to check out a bus stop where a bus leaves from to a place that i want to go tomorrow
south of valencia a little village on the ocean it starts at the end it's like
and i need to see the bus stop to confirm when the bus leaves let's check this out up here
this is the ponte arrago which in valencia or in spanish means puente de arago bridge the
arago bridge and we are sort of approaching the historical scent center of valencia so if i were
to keep walking that way i would be in the heart of the historical center and i believe i'm close
to gran via there's a grand via here as well not just in madrid and there was also one in marcia
so this is the start of grand via grand via
and i'm surprised at how wild it sounds with all the bugs and animals here
but after this i'm gonna go back to the park and keep heading north so we can
finish the tour of the park this is the ponte la mar puente del mar ocean bridge sea bridge
one of several bridges here that go over this former river
river turia and there's some more even up this way before we get to the northern part
of the tour of the park and really beautiful wow
man so majestic can't believe it another bridge and here we have a metro stop alameda i've been
walking for well over an hour granted i've been walking slowly and taking it all in
but i still have a couple more kilometers to go and it'll be worth it
even though it's the hottest part of the day upwards of 38 degrees celsius
i can do it no excuses
we have a nice shaded area here
there's a football field over there
very jungle-esque
all right guys check these trees out i've never seen anything like these
got some people in some hammocks wow these trees i haven't even seen these in tropical countries
i don't know what they are if anyone knows let me know in the comments what species these trees are
el nombre
yeah yeah i speak english in english i mean i understand spanish but that's all right
the real bridge
i was informed that this part of the park is the most green area um i'm in
like the middle of the park it doesn't go directly north and south but this is the green area
all right guys i'm almost done with my tour here i'm finishing at a castle-like structure
up there that is a very nice piece of work and i'll show you when i get there
the structure i'm going to show you is called the porter serrano
all right guys i hope you enjoyed that video of parque rio turia a riverbed that is converted into
a nice urban nature park here in valencia a beautiful city adventure elliott checking out