Living in La Fonteta de Sant Lluís, Valencia: a neighborhood guide
An old huerta village in the south of Quatre Carreres, grown around a fountain and its church, cut off from the city by ring roads
Living in La Fonteta de Sant Lluís
La Fonteta de Sant Lluís () is a barrio of the Quatre Carreres district, in the south of Valencia. Its Valencian name is the official one; in Castilian it is Fuente de San Luis, and most people just call it La Fonteta. It is bounded by the Ronda Sud to the north, the Avinguda d'Ausiàs March to the west, the old Saler motorway to the east, and the Cercanías tracks and the new bed of the Turia to the south. Those roads keep it apart from the rest of the city, and the old village core still feels like the huerta village it was.
Fonteta means "little fountain" in Valencian, and Sant Lluís is Saint Louis Bertrand, the sixteenth-century Valencian Dominican. According to the tradition recorded by his eighteenth-century biographer, the friar fell ill in 1579, drank from a spring on the road from Russafa to the Albufera, felt better and blessed it. A hermitage was later built there in his memory; the hamlet that grew around it became a parish in 1902, when the church of Sant Lluís Bertran took its present form. The miracle is a pious tradition, not a documented event, but the fountain and the dedication are where the name comes from.
According to the Ajuntament's municipal register, 3,308 people lived in La Fonteta de Sant Lluís on 1 January 2025, on 23.9 hectares, almost the same as the 3,120 recorded in 1991. The old village around the church and its three small squares sits beside blocks built from the 1970s onwards. Many people also count neighbouring Na Rovella, north of the Ronda Sud, as part of La Fonteta, which is why the old basketball pavilion there carries its name.
Transport and trade-offs: there is no metro station in the barrio; the Quatre Carreres stop on tram-train line 10 is across the Ronda Sud, and EMT buses link it to the centre. The ring roads bring traffic noise and make walking anywhere a matter of crossing big junctions, and shops are few. Na Rovella lies to the north, and Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències to the north-east.
What rent costs in La Fonteta de Sant Lluís (September 2026)
La Fonteta de Sant Lluís asks 18 EUR per m² a month on Fotocasa's rent index for September 2026, level with the city of Valencia as a whole. At that rate a 70 m² two-bedroom lists at around 1,260 EUR a month, before you negotiate. These are asking prices on new listings, not what sitting tenants pay.
Asking prices here are 2.9% above a year earlier, against 7% for the city as a whole.
This is the figure for the barrio itself. The Quatre Carreres district it belongs to reads 17 EUR on the same index.
Fotocasa publishes exactly the same figure and trend for La Fonteta de Sant Lluís as for the whole Quatre Carreres district, so read it as a guide to the district rather than a figure for this barrio.
Our renting guide explains what landlords ask for and what the fianza and agency fee add on signing day, and the upfront cost calculator runs the maths for any rent.
Where La Fonteta de Sant Lluís Sits in Valencia
What Living in La Fonteta de Sant Lluís Is Really Like
Pros: What Residents Love
- A real village core with its own church square
- Quiet streets for the city
- Rents in line with the district
- The City of Arts and Sciences within reach
Cons: What to Know First
- No metro station
- Cut off by ring roads and railway tracks
- Few shops and restaurants
- Traffic noise on the edges
Typical Properties in La Fonteta de Sant Lluís
Local Amenities
Landmark
The church of Sant Lluís Bertran, a parish since 1902
History
Named after a fountain blessed, by tradition, by Saint Louis Bertrand in 1579
Transport
Quatre Carreres stop on tram-train line 10, across the Ronda Sud
Population
3,308 residents on 23.9 hectares (padrón, 1 January 2025)
More neighborhoods
Na Rovella
A triangle of 1970s housing blocks in Quatre Carreres, home of the old Fonteta basketball pavilion and the new Roig Arena
Explore Na RovellaCiutat de les Arts i les Ciències
The barrio around Calatrava's complex, between the Turia garden and the Ronda Sud, with new towers, the courts and a tram line
Explore Ciutat de les Arts i les CiènciesLa Punta
Traditional huerta barrio between the port and the southern rice fields
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Reviewed 5 September 2026 by Michael Bastin