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Regions

Cities

• 39.4666-0.3751 Valence  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 38.3452-0.4832 Alicante  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 37.879194-4.7797223 Elche  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 37.879194-4.7797224 Castellón de la Plana  (last update Feb. 2018)

Other destinations

• 39.1659-0.25261 Cullera  – Seaside town. (last update Feb. 2018)
• 38.64460.04552 Calpe (Calp)  – Seaside town (last update Feb. 2018)

Understand

The Valencian Community has two official languages: Castilian (Spanish) and Valencian (a Catalan dialect). If you speak one of these two languages, you will make yourself understood anywhere in the Community. Otherwise, rest assured, a large portion of Spanish people speak at least English, and many of them speak French.

To go

From France

• From Languedoc and Sillon Rhodanien : follow the highway A9 to the Col du Perthus and the AP-7 once you have crossed the border.

• From the South West : it is possible to go through the Col du Perthus or the Col du Somport. There is a possibility to cross the border on the Basque Coast and go through Pamplona.

From the rest of Spain

• Madrid and Castile : follow the fast lane A-3 which leads directly to Valence.

• Barcelona : take the highway AP-7 (paying ...) or successively the fast lane A-7 and the road N-340 which run along the entire route via Tarragona and Castellon de la Plana.

• Andalusia and Murcia : the de facto arrival by the fast track A-7 then by the highway AP-7.

• Aragon : take the fast lane A-23 from Zaragoza and of Huesca.

By plane

• 40.20970.06971 Castellón-Costa Azahar Airport (IATA : CDT, ICAO: THE CH, Aeropuerto de Castellón-Costa Azahar) in Vilanova d'Alcolea and Benlloc (30 km north of Castellón de la Plana) (last updated Oct 2019)

Circulate

The road and motorway network is in perfect condition throughout the region.

Many expressways connect most of the localities, a single toll freeway (called "autopista" ...) exists along the coast, very busy during summer migrations. This numbered axis AP-7 serves the towns of Castellon de la Plana and of Valence, its course continues in the direction of Benidorm and D'Alicante.

Other expressways (known as "autovia" ...) were built on the route of old national roads not running alongside the toll motorway, offering the same levels of service and safety expected on a toll motorway:

• A-3 : from Madrid and dessert Requena then Valence
• A-7 : more or less follows the course of its great cousin theAP-7 and extends to Murcia
• A-23 : connects Sagunto in the north of Valence directly to theAragon
• A-31 : connects Alicante at Albacete
• A-35 : connects Xàtiva at Albacete
• A-38 : new expressway which gradually absorbs the layout of the current road N-332 Between Sollana and Benidorm and double the toll freeway AP-7
• A-70 : ring roadAlicante
• V-15 : East access Valence leading to the beaches via El Saler
• V-21 : North access from Valence
• V-31 : southern access from Valence
• CV-10 : fast track avoiding Castellon de la Plana by inland from Sagunto and is now a free alternative toAP-7 in this sector

The service stations are located as well on the main axes as on the ordinary roads, they tend to become rarer in the mountainous massifs. International payment cards are generally accepted.

Watch out for the nervous conduct of locals, unsuitable gait and disregarding safety distances are common.

Speed ​​limits:

• Motorway and expressway: 120 km / h
• Ordinary route: 90 or 100 km / h
• City : 50 km / h

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