Car rental at Valencia Airport (VLC) is big-league: desks line the Terminal 1 arrivals level - Europcar, Sixt and Fox list VLC locations - while volume Spanish operators including Centauro, Record Go and Wiber work from shuttle-served offices minutes away, a split worth checking on your voucher before you land. The city itself rewards a car-free start: the old town restricts traffic, the Turia gardens and City of Arts and Sciences connect on foot and by bike, and parking is metered everywhere central. Collect the car for the region - the Albufera lagoon and rice villages 30 minutes south, the orange-country roads toward Xativa's castle, Requena's wine caves inland, and the Costa Blanca beaches south in an hour-plus. Summer beach weekends jam the coastal motorways; drive early.
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