Museu de l’Arros – Valencia International

By Creavibe

September 14, 2025

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Museu de l’Arros

https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com

C/ Rosari,3
46011 – Valencia

Teléfono (1)..: 672226188
Teléfono (2)..: 962084075
Email..: [email protected]

Rice is a type of intrinsic elements of the material of Valencia. Like silk and material, citrus and ceramics, rice (arroz / arros) varieties a part of the material of the area.

Brought to Spain by the Moors within the eighth century and and cultivated within the Albufera lagoon the Moors launched superior applied sciences to the manufacturing of rice within the area (sadly most of it utilizing slave labor on the time).

However, rice manufacturing has ebbed and flowed throughout the final 1,000 years with a dip in cultivation through the Reconquista in 1492 and a few resurgence within the 18th century, nevertheless, by no means to ranges of manufacturing through the reign of the Moors. Today rice remains to be grown within the Albufera National Park with rice fields within the Valencia area producing over 120,000 kilos of rice per yr.

Valencian rice is of numerous varieties together with Albufera, Bahai, Bomba, Gleva, Montsianell, Sarçat and Sendra. These vary throughout textures from a smoother and creamier selection like Senia to the firmer Bomba.

Most Valencian rice is grown right this moment within the Albufera wetlands and is strictly regulated by the D.O. system managed by the ministry of agriculture (Denominación de Origin). The system was instituted in 2000 with the intention of certifying rice following strict requirements comprising three varieties, Senia, Bomba and Albufera. Rice from Valencia with D.O. designation is packaged on the market with a numbered label that paperwork the producer and space of development to make sure the standard of the rice.

These particulars and histories usually are not a part of the exhibit on the Museo de la Arroz, nevertheless. The museum focuses on the milling of harvested rice.

But that’s OK as a result of the small museum in El Cabanyal is totally definitely worth the journey. The museum is housed in a rice mill constructed in 1906 and that ran all through a lot of the twentieth century. The rice mill was one among modernity from the beginning being run with electrical energy and the tour emphasizes the function of mechanization in refining rice.

Admittedly, the museum is a bit complicated at first. The floor ground is the beginning of the tour and begins with numbered pacards every with a QR code that results in the audio information (a good suggestion to take your cellphone and AirPods).

The tour spans 4 ranges and encompasses the preliminary sorting and classification adopted by transport to the third ground by way of advanced ducting and chain pushed wood containers. The means of cleansing, hulling, whitening, classification, sharpening, storage and packing strikes between flooring utilizing these mechanized processes that had been state-of-the-art within the early twentieth century.

Your tour ought to take about an hour when you observe the numbered placards and the audio information. Given the care that has been taken to revive the mill and the equipment it’s definitely worth the time. The journey is efficacious simply to see the difficult vintage equipment but additionally the craftsmanship that went into creating the large engines, generators and ducting.

This isn’t confined to the large but superbly elaborate motor and belt techniques that drove the mill however delicate options comparable to valve knobs within the form of roosters and stair stanchions with elaborate forged figures.

At a modest 2€ however free for kids (1€ for lowered charges) a visit to the rice museum is a good expertise later within the morning on a sizzling day as the right segue into a protracted, leisurely lunch of paella adopted by a siesta. You will recognize the sweetness and heritage of Valencia rice tradition. Not to be missed.

There is an audio information all through the exhibit. Here are the hyperlinks in English that will help you by the tour.

1. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_1-converted.mp3

2. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_2-converted.mp3

3. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_3-converted.mp3

4. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_4-converted.mp3

5. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_5-converted.mp3

6. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_6-converted.mp3

7. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_7-converted.mp3

8. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_8-converted.mp3

9. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_9-converted.mp3

10. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_10-converted.mp3

11. https://www.museodelarrozdevalencia.com/Qr/Mp3/MUSEU_ING_11-converted.mp3