One more year, We recommend three Valencian projects where you can find Christmas gifts, far from Amazon and large multinationals. This year, two of the busiest bookstores in the city and a shopping gallery that brings together all types of brands and creators.
— Ramon Llull bookstore. Corona, 5 (The Carme)
That Ramon Llull is one of the bookstores with the most and best cultural programming in Valencia is an open secret., hence the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Bookstores (Cegal) has been awarded the Cultural Bookstore Award 2025. A small recognition for a great work of disseminating reading based on presentations, book clubs, seminars, exhibitions, The cycle Music, literature and art with Rafa Cervera, meetings with authors or the Avivament philosophy festival. In your activity corner, among hundreds of books, great swords of Spanish literature such as Almudena Grandes or Rafael Chirbes have sat, to whom they dedicated a day within the Llibreries Fest programming last November. It opened its doors on the street that gives it its name in 2003, after the transfer of the Punto y Coma bookstore founded in the seventies. Cultural programming and literature had already gained weight—to the detriment of the legal and university fund—when the Ramon Llull moved to its current location, in the Carmen neighborhood, where you will surely find a good book to give this Christmas: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito, Opposition by Sara Mesa, The peninsula of empty houses by David Uclés, Zeal by Sabina Urraca, The madman of God at the end of the world by Javier Cercas…
— The Delivery Girl. Rafael Tramoyeres, 8 (Benimaclet)
La Repartidora is a bookshop in Benimaclet specializing in critical literature that carries social commitment as a banner. Its reading groups are made up of authors who write in Catalan or about novels and political essays; its guests are authors such as Ana Penyas, Christo Casas and Martín Mosquera (magazine editor Jacobin), and the shirts they sell are produced following criteria of sustainability and respect for labor rights. Following the same philosophy, on Saturday 20 in December they will set up a militant market where, besides books, you can buy clothes, bosses, sheets, postcards, stickers, kuffiyes i banderoles which contribute to sustaining the collectives of some of the most active social movements in Valencia: EntreBarris, Dissident Migrant Resistance, BDS-PV, For the Horta, Feminist Assembly of Valencia and Young Muixeranga of Valencia. Bring cash!
— Crush. Cyril Amorós, 24 (Remedy Plan)
More than fifty brands and creators coexist in the Crush shopping gallery. handicraft, illustration, designer gifts, plants, decoration, clothes, accessories and even a space gourmet can be seen in this neighborhood shopping gallery GOOD of the city. You will find gold-plated La Mar earrings and necklaces, Soruka handmade wallets made with leftover leather, clips of fallera and Santa Claus, he Balloon Dog de Jeff Koons, minimalist lamps and alarm clocks from Lexon, and jars of oregano or parsley made to open, water and harvest. Also, Ecophonic sustainable speakers for mobile or tablet; toy cars and boats made of brass; 3D games and puzzles; illustrations by Jom Guillén or Raquel Carrero; hair accessories from Forquillas Lunas; chocolates, pâtés and jams; metal silhouettes of cities created by The Line, and backpacks, sunglasses, scarves, caps… It's impossible to leave Crush without having found a good gift!!
