Purple Nest Backpackers Hostel is the result of more than a year working with backpackers and other young travellers from all around the world in our sister backpackers hostel Red Nest Youth Hostel (previously called Nest Youth Hostel). We have been able to fulfil our dream to offer everyone a backpackers hostel which has all the facilities they need when they are far from their own home, such a bar, air conditioning and heating in every room, etc. We can say, without doubt that Purple Nest Backpackers Hostel is the best backpackers hostel of the city.

In 1944, during a parade of gigantes y cabezudos, young men who wanted to participate in the same event staged a brawl. Since there was a vegetable stand nearby, they picked tomatoes and used them as a weapon. The police had to intervene to break up the fight, and forced those responsible to pay the damages incurred.

The following year the young people repeated the fight, only this time brought their own tomatoes from home. They were again dispersed by the police. After repeating this in subsequent years, the party was, albeit unofficially, established.

When walking through the streets of Valencia, the traveler can feel, among its walls and under the pavement, the beat of many centuries. From the remains of the Roman Forum, founded by Junius Brutus on the site of today's Plaza de la Virgen, giving rise to Valentia, to the emblematic Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of the Arts and Sciences), Valencia has transformed its layout, while preserving monuments that are a living testimony of bygone periods.

The Cathedral of Valencia stands in the same place where the first temple of the Roman city was erected, and later, an Arab mosque. Built between 1262 and 1426, the many expansions and alterations it has gone through have left their mark in the interesting juxtaposition of styles laid over the prevailing primitive Gothic.

The Miguelete, the tower most closely identified with Valencia by people from outside, is the Gothic bell tower of the Cathedral. It rises to a height of 50.85 metres, the same dimensions of its perimeter. The effort it takes to climb all 207 steps to the top of the tower are more than rewarded by the splendid view of the city that it presents.