The Eixample (Valencian: [ejˈʃample]) or Ensanche (Spanish: [enˈsaɲtʃe]) is a district of Valencia, Spain between the Old City (Ciutat Vella), Quatre Carreres, Camins al Grau, Extramurs and El Pla del Real.

This area takes in the city's most popular shopping street on carrer Colón, Marqués del Túria Avenue and Russafa.

The Eixample is characterised by long straight streets, a strict grid pattern crossed by wide avenues, and square blocks with chamfered corners (named illes in Valencian, manzanas in Spanish).

The main drag to the north of the circular Plaza or Plaça de Cánovas hosts a few vibrant disco-bars where you can dance until 4am with free entry.

[2] An outgrowth settlement springing around a country estate built by order of Andalusi prince Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan (son to Umayyad emir 'Abd ar-Rahman I), Russafa was an independent town until the 1870s and today lies just five minutes outside the historic centre, the Barri del Carme (Ciutat Vella).

The word comes from "رُصَّافَة" in the erstwhile native Iberian Arabic dialect, it means "firmly arrayed together" the way gardens are built as concrete enclosures containing plants, framed together.

Having undergone a renaissance in recent years, it has become a hotbed of dining, shopping, and cultural activity, especially of the more alternative sort, so the type of people who helped revive El Carme not so long ago are now moving here to escape the tourists.

And the resulting mix of young creatives, the older folks who've been here forever, the African immigrants down at the public telephone centres and the Chinese market vendors is one of the great things about the neighbourhood these days.

Main church – historically Baroque, since it was built in the 15th century, but fairly restrained for all that - the Parròquia de Sant Valeri (or San Valero), and dubbed the “Cathedral of Russafa.” Russafa, one of the old parts of the city, is located behind the North Station, and is particularly famous for being a meeting place for the most modern bohemian people.

[3] The park on Plaza Manuel Granero is a green space in Russafa, where kids play in a Wendy house, on swings and slides, or kick a football around, while adults beef up their muscles on the machines in the open-air gym or take a beer in the dappled sunlight outside Bar El Parque.

[6] Russafa district in its closest area to Reino de Valencia avenue, and offers many advantages: it is very centric, very easy to locate, it has a comfortable and very quick access to the old river Túria gardens and it has all kind of services, not only shops, bars and restaurants, but also schools, banks, medical centres, etc.