Platja de la Malvarrosa
Golden urban beach where wealthy families once summered and Sorolla painted children at play in the surf.
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This guide to Platja de la Malvarrosa in Valencia follows painter Joaquin Sorolla, who spent thirty summers wading into these waves chasing children who would not sit still for his brush. It traces how he turned this exact stretch of sand into some of his best-known canvases, and how a beach that was marshland until the mid-1800s came to exist at all, once a French botanist drained it and planted the flowers that gave it its name. Wealthy Valencian families followed those same flowers here, decades before anyone strung up a volleyball net. Walk the shoreline early, before the crowds, to see the light Sorolla kept chasing.
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