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With a week, you can choose to cover the city exhaustively by adding some of the smaller museums to the suggestions outlined above, or spend a few days making trips out of town. Mountain-lovers should make the trip up to Morella, a spectacular medieval city crowning a hilltop which is still enclosed behind perfectly intact walls. Stay the night to take it in properly and enjoy some hiking in the surrounding hills. Peníscola is also well worth a visit, although it's a couple of hours drive north of Valencia. This tiny town is piled up dramatically on a rock almost completely surrounded by the sea, but it's a good idea to get there early before the tour buses start disgorging their endless streams of day-trippers. West of the city are the engaging little wine towns of Utiel and Requena, a must for wine buffs, but not especially interesting for anyone else, and south of Valencia stretches the legendary Costa Blanca. If you are in the mood for kitsch and neon, make for Benidorm which boasts two glorious beaches, or spend some time in the prettier and smaller coastal towns of Xàbia/Jávea and Altea.
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