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From March 12 to 19, around the saint's day of San José, Valencia erupts in a blaze of colour and noise for the fiesta de las Fallas. During the year, each barrio or neighbourhood builds a satirical caricature or falla. These begin to appear in the plazzas of each barrio at the beginning of March and are judged and awarded prizes before being set alight at midnight on March 19, the nit the Foc. The festival takes its name from the Valencian word of torch. Traditionally, carpenters celebrated the day of San José and the beginning of spring with a ritual burning of spare wood. They would decorate the torches used over the winter and add them to the bonfire. This simple rite of spring has become an international tourist attraction , and it's an extroardinary sight to watch these painstakingly constructed models, some as tall as buildings, some big enough to walk inside, be strung with firecrackers and litterally go up in smoke. The fallas are ignited in succession; the last to go up are the prizewinners. each falla has a small model or ninot beside it, usually created by the children of the barrio. Finally, around 1 am, the falla of the plza del ayuntamiento goes up in flames, set off by a string of firecrackers, followed by the last thunderous firework display on the fiesta.
On march 20, Valencia returns to normality-the streets are cleaned overnight, and the planning begins for the next year's Fallas.
If you decide to stay in this region, you have a large choice of apartments and hotels in Valencia.

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Sitges, 40 km from Barcelona, situated in the Costa Brava is definitely the highlight of the coast south of Barcelona. Established in the 1960's as a holiday town whose loose attitudes openly challenged the rigidity of franco's Spain, it has now become the great weekend escape for young Barcelonans, who have created a resort very much in their own image. It's also a noted gay holiday destination, with a nightlige to match: indeed, if you don't like vigorous action of all kinds, you'd be wise to avoid Sitges in the summer. As well as a ceratin style, the Barcelona trippers have brought with them the high prices from the Catalan capital. The town is reasnoably attractive- aformer fishing village whose pleasing houses and narrow streets have attracted artistes and opted-out intellectuals for a century or so. The beaches, though crowded, are fr from oppressive, and the town has a smattering of cultural interest.
If you would like to stay in Sitges for a couple of days, have a look to the hotels in Sitges or apartments in Sitges!

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Tarragona makes a great stopover.The nicest rooms in town, or at least the ones in the best location, are in the predestrianized Plaça de la Font, just in the old town off Rambla Vella. If these are full, there are a couple a couple of less desirable places near the train station.
A few kilometres out of town, are some more small hotels and campsites.
Make sure to book your accomodation in advance, specially if you are going to la Costa Dorada in the summer, try to book at least one or two months in advance, otherwise, all the acommoadations in the Costa Dorada will be booked.

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Gastrtonomy is of great cultural importance to the Valencians. Rice is the dominant ingredient in dishes of the region, grown locally in paddy fields still irrigated by the Moorish canal system. The genuine Pealla Valenciana does not mix fish and meat. It typically contains chicken, rabbit, green beans, snails, artichokes and saffron. Shellfish are eaten as a starter.
Rice dishes vary around the region: arroz negro is rice cooked with squid complete with ink which gives the dish its colour, and served with all i oli, a powerful garlic mayonnaise.
Arroz al horno is drier, baked with chickpeas. Fideua is sesfood and noodles cooked paella-style. You'll find arroz a banda further south on the coast around Denia.
Around Alicante you can try arroz con costra, which is a meat-bases paella topped with a baked egg crust. Apart from rice, vegetables are always fresh and plentiful.
Don't hesitate to stay in a hotel in la Costa de Azahar, in order to enjoy the region!

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Gibraltar's interest is essentially its novelty: the genuine appeal of the strange, looming physical presence of its rock, and the dubious one of its preservation as one of Britain's last remaining colonies. For most of its history it has existed in a limbo between two worlds without being fully part of either. It's a curious place to visit, not least to witness the bizarre process oth its opening to mass tourism from the Costa Del Sol. Ironically, this threatens both to destroy Gilbratar's highly individual hybrid society and at the same time to make it much more British, after the fashion of the expatriate communities and huge resorts of the Costa. In recent years the economic boom Gilbratar enjoyed throughout the 1980's, following the reopening of the border with Spain, has started to wane, and the future of the colony is almost certain to involve closer ties with Spain.
But be carefull, places to stay are at a premium: so have a look a the differents types of acomodation for la costa del Sol

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If you would like to have a last drink at the end of the day, or going for diner, Girona 's chic bars and restaurants are grouped on c/ de la Força on and around the riverside Rambla Llibertat and on the parallel Plaça Del Vi: it's where you will find the best daytime cafés with outdoor seating.
Going to the Pedret area, on the road to Palamos north of the river, you'll find a wide variety of eateries and late-night bars.
After, you can keep on going , with the Nightlife in Girona which has undergone a transformation in recent years with a number of very lively and fashionable bars opening in and around Plaça independencia and in Pedret. The old city is gradually re-emerging as a late-night venue. During the summer, there are also some pricey open air bars -known as les carpes- in the parc de la Devesa, which have live music or dancing from Wednesday to Saturday.
Don't hesitate to have a look to the hotels in Costa Brava or apartments in Costa Brava!

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