The Valencia Marathon route, printed
The 2025 course, 42.195 km, from Valencia, Spain.
- Styles
- 19 colourwaysto choose from
- 300 DPIsharp at every size
- Price
- From £24.95delivered free
- Paper
- 240 gsmsmooth fine-art paper
The 2025 course is already drawn on the map, with the distance beneath it. Add your name and your finishing time, choose a style, and preview the finished artwork before you buy. Prices from £24.95, and delivery is free.
Valencia finishes on a blue platform laid over the water at the City of Arts and Sciences, at the end of a course so flat and fast that runners travel here to chase a time.
Start and finish are almost on the same spot, beside the City of Arts and Sciences in the old bed of the Turia. The opening kilometres cross the Monteolivete bridge and head out along long, straight avenues towards Cabanyal and the sea, where the stretch near Eugenia Viñes is the most exposed to wind. The course then swings inland around the university district and Benimaclet, passes the Viveros gardens and the Mestalla stadium, and makes its first run down the Alameda, where the noise rises sharply. On the map the line folds back on itself again and again, because the race uses several of its main avenues more than once.
Around halfway the course goes back through Cabanyal and returns towards the centre along the Avenida del Puerto, a gentle false flat that feels longer than it looks. It then drops into the Turia gardens, the park laid out along the former riverbed, with spectators leaning over the bridges and the road above. The Torres de Serranos, the medieval gate on the edge of the old town, come up at about 27 kilometres. Soon after, the course squeezes into Ciutat Vella, where the streets narrow and the crowd's noise bounces off the walls around Plaça de l'Ajuntament. The only real climb, about one per cent at its steepest, follows on the long straight out towards Bioparc.
After Bioparc the road dips and flattens, and the last kilometres run back through the centre with people packed onto pavements, bridges and balconies. Runners come down a ramp onto the finishing platform with water on both sides and the Hemisfèric straight ahead. The clock explains the race's reputation. Kelvin Kiptum ran 2:01:53 here in December 2022 on his marathon debut, the fastest first marathon on record, and Sisay Lemma took the course record down to 2:01:48 a year later. On 7 December 2025 John Korir won the men's race alone in 2:02:24, and Joyciline Jepkosgei set a women's course record of 2:14:00, among more than 30,000 finishers.
Questions
Why does the line cross itself so many times?
The course reuses several roads, including the Alameda and the avenues around the university, so it folds over itself rather than running as one simple loop. It starts and finishes almost on the same spot at the City of Arts and Sciences.
Where is the hill?
There is barely one. The long straight towards Bioparc, in the early thirties of kilometres, rises at about one per cent at its steepest, and the gentle descent that follows gives most of it back.
Can I add my finishing time?
Yes. The title and the line beneath it are yours to write, so your name, your finishing time and your club all fit. The 2025 course and its distance are drawn for you, and you see the finished artwork before you buy.
Is this an official Valencia Marathon print?
No. Maps & Son is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the organisers of the Valencia Marathon; the name says which course is mapped. The course is drawn from a route file we use with permission.
Can I change the map?
Yes. The designer opens with the course drawn and the map framed around it. Move the map if you like, choose from 19 styles, and preview the finished artwork before you buy.
How much does a race route print cost?
Prints start at £24.95, printed on 240 gsm smooth fine-art paper, with delivery included to the UK and 25 other countries. Sold as A4, A3, A2 or A1 prints, unframed, at standard sizes so a ready-made frame will fit.
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Maps & Son is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the organisers of the Valencia Marathon. The course is drawn from a route file we use with permission. For the race itself, see the organisers' website.