Sunset by boat on l'Albufera

Sueca, Valencia//Activities/5 min read

Rice fields under water, herons and the best hour of the day.

Written with by Clara Ibáñez
Sueca, Valencia.

Draft. This story will cross l'Albufera by boat with a local fisherman.

Bomba rice, Arroz de Valencia PDO, Marjal de Sueca. Sueca, Valencia.

It will finish at the Marjal de Sueca and the bomba rice that comes out of it.

Xixona, Alicante.

[The full text of this story is still to be written. Photos will go in as the story needs them.]

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The place

Valencian Community

Around l'Albufera, the big lagoon south of the city of Valencia, the land is flat and wet: rice fields flooded in spring and harvested in September. Sueca, in the middle of them, grows the bomba rice for paella.

Things to love about Valencia

  • Sunset by boat on l'Albufera
  • Rice fields under water all summer
  • Paella cooked over a wood fire
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Bomba rice, Arroz de Valencia PDO

Bomba rice, Arroz de Valencia PDO

Sueca, Valencia
€6.50
Turrón de Jijona PGI

Turrón de Jijona PGI

Xixona, Alicante
€11.00
Tuna mojama

Tuna mojama

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€12.00

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