Living in Ciutat Fallera, Valencia: a neighborhood guide

Living in Ciutat Fallera

Ciutat Fallera (play_arrow) is a barrio of the Benicalap district, at the north-western edge of Valencia. Its full name is Ciutat de l'Artista Faller; in Castilian it is Ciudad Fallera or Ciudad del Artista Fallero. It is a small rectangle bounded by the Ronda Nord motorway to the north, the Avinguda dels Germans Machado to the east, Carrer de Salvador Cerveró and Carrer de Lluís Braille to the south, and Carrer de la Florista to the west. Beyond it lie the rest of Benicalap, Beniferri, the huerta of Poble Nou and Burjassot.

Ciutat fallera means "Fallas city". The barrio was built as a home for the workshops of the falla artists, the craftspeople who make the monuments burned every March. The idea is credited to Regino Mas, head of the falla artists' guild, in the 1940s; the first stone was laid on 17 March 1965, and its streets are named after legendary figures of the Fallas.

According to the Ajuntament's municipal register, 6,397 people lived in Ciutat Fallera on 1 January 2025, on 49.7 hectares. The barrio has two halves: the big workshops, where much of each year's Fallas takes shape, with the Museu de l'Artista Faller (opened in 1993), the guild house and the parish of Sant Josep Artesà; and a residential area with shops and a school. The Parc de Benicalap, despite its name, lies inside Ciutat Fallera.

Transport and trade-offs: tram line 4 stops at Florista, on the western edge, and EMT buses link the barrio to the centre. Rents follow the district and the park is a real asset, but the Ronda Nord brings traffic noise and the workshop half is an industrial landscape of warehouses. Benicalap lies to the south, and Beniferri to the west.