The North Station ( es, Estación del Norte, ca-valencia, Estació del Nord) is the major

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

. It is located in the city centre next to the

Plaza de Toros de Valencia Plaza de Toros de Valencia, officially Plaça de bous de València, is a bullring in València, Spain. It was built between 1850 and 1859 El Mundo, n.º 626, domingo 26 de septiembre de 2011, Magacine pág. 32. in the neoclassical style, inspired ...

, the city's bullring, and 200m from the town hall. The building is one of the main works of the

Valencian Art Nouveau Valencian Art Nouveau ( es, modernismo valenciano, ca-valencia, modernisme valencià), is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in the Valencian Community, i ...

and was declared Good of Cultural Heritage in 1987. It has connections with

Metrovalencia Metrovalencia is an urban rail system serving a large part of the metropolitan area of Valencia. The network is a modern amalgamation of former FEVE narrow gauge electric operated suburban railways. It is a large suburban network that crosses t ...

and the city bus network.

AVE ''Alta Velocidad Española'' (''AVE'') is a service of high-speed rail in Spain operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, at speeds of up to . As of December 2021, the Spanish high-speed rail network, on part of which the AVE s ...

(high-speed) trains from Madrid and some other long-distance trains use

Valencia-Joaquín Sorolla railway station Valencia-Joaquín Sorolla railway station is a railway station in Valencia, Spain, opened in 2010. Along with Estació del Nord, it is a city centre terminus station, primarily serving AVE high-speed rail services, with Estació del Nord serving ...

, a short walk away, instead. This station's name is a reference to ''Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España'' (Railways of the North of Spain), the railway company that constructed it and opened it in 1917, which was later nationalized and incorporated into RENFE, and later separated into Adif, the company that currently owns and runs it. It was declared a ''

Bien de Interés Cultural A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries. The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" (" goods" in the economic sense) and incl ...

'' (Good of Cultural Heritage, a type of listed monument) in 1987. Dutch Symphonic

Metal A metal (from ancient Greek, Greek μέταλλον ''métallon'', "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, e ...

band

Within Temptation Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. They have been classified by critics as gothic metal and symphonic metal, although each album contains other inf ...

performed at the station in July 2005 as a one-time event. The concert was filmed and broadcast on Spanish television.

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