New year, new life! This January Valencia is full of activities to start the year in the best way. And in our city, the slope of January does not apply to cultural programming, as the agenda of the city of Cap i Casal is fuller than ever.
Therefore, we bring you the best plans to do this January in Valencia so you can make the most of everything the city has to offer. From exhibitions, concerts, markets and fairs. So if your resolution for this 2026 is to get out of the house, don’t think twice, grab a pen and paper and write down all these activities.
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Enlightenment, the immersive show inside a church
The church of San José de Calasanz is the setting for this multisensory show that combines videomapping and music, specifically, a reinterpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. It is a show that surprises with its staging and invites to meditation and illumination.
📍Location: Real Colegio de las Escuelas Pías (PP. Escolapios). C/ dels Carnissers, 6
📆Dates : All month from Thursday to Sunday, until January 23
💸Price: Tickets from 10,90€.
The exhibition La Ruta: Modernity, culture and uncontrolled.
The popularly known as “Ruta del Bakalao” is one of the most famous artistic expressions of the twentieth century in Valencia and can now be seen from new perspectives with this immersive experience, which not only tells us the history of the movement, but talks about how it influenced later and demolishes all its myths. We will be able to do it through immersive room, virtual reality, exhibition of original objects and much more.
Dates: Open every day except Tuesdays; until February 1st.
📍 Location: Bombas Gens Centre d’Arts Digitals. Avenida de Burjassot, 54-56.
💸 Price: Tickets from 9,50€.
Visit the Christmas markets
Between Christmas and Epiphany, many of Valencia’s Christmas markets are still open. This way, you can enjoy the magic of Christmas during the first week of January and take the opportunity to do your Christmas shopping.
Pinazo exhibition at IVAM
Last 2024, an exhibition on the artist Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench opened at IVAM. If you haven’t had time to see it yet, don’t worry, but don’t sleep either, as it ends next January 25.
The exhibition has about 50 paintings and a hundred paintings by the artist. As well as some unpublished texts that have been read for the first time at IVAM.
📆 Dates: until January 25th
📍Location: IVAM Centre Julio González
💸 Price: entrance to IVAM 5€.
Three Kings Parade
One of the most anticipated moments of the Christmas holidays is the great parade of the Three Kings that runs through the center of Valencia. As every year, at 16:30h, the Kings will arrive at the Marina of Valencia to start an hour later, at 17:30h, their usual route through the streets of the city.
📆 Date: January 5, 2025
⏰ S chedule: starting at 17:30h
Large interactive installation at the Palau de Cervelló.
During the month of January, and until the end of March, a documentary installation by the Valencian artist Rodolfo Navarro can be visited at the Cervelló Palace.
It is “La Transfiguración”, a surface of 200 square meters in which artistic interaction with its public is sought.
📆 Dates: the whole month of January
Amusement fair
Until January 19 you can enjoy the mythical Christmas amusement fair, very close to the Clock Building. There you can find dozens of attractions that will fill your body with adrenaline.
On weekends it will be open until midnight.
📆 Dates: until January 19