Vallejo beats again: guided tour of the historic Campo de Vallejo in its centenary year

The Historical Heritage Area of Levante UD proposes a guided tour to recover the memory of the historic Campo de Vallejo in the year of its centenary. The activity will take place next Saturday, March 28, at 11 a.m. and will allow participants to explore the spaces where the heart of Levante beat for more than four decades.

The heartbeat of Vallejo

“The heartbeat of Vallejo still endures. You just need to sharpen your hearing to catch its roar and let your imagination soar to recover its traces and silhouette.” With this idea, the Historical Heritage Area invites fans to take a true journey back in time to rediscover the setting where much of the Granota identity was forged.

A journey to the origins of Vallejo

The year 2025 marks the centenary of the inauguration of Campo de Vallejo, a venue that opened its doors in November 1925, driven by the leaders of the historic Gimnástico. That ambitious project provided the city of Valencia with a modern sports facility for its time and would become one of the fundamental stages in Granota history.

Between 1925 and the 1967-1968 season, Vallejo was the home of various entities that are part of the genealogy of the current Levante UD: the Gimnástico, the Unión Deportiva Levante-Gimnástico, and later Levante.

Recovering the traces of the old stadium

The tour proposes to reconstruct, on the grounds where the stadium once stood, the layout of Vallejo and the most representative areas of the facility.

The tour will begin in the vicinity of the historic Portal de Vallejo, the former entrance to the venue, and will allow participants to identify the spaces where the goals, the stands, and other iconic points of the field were located.

Throughout the itinerary, some urban remnants that still evoke the presence of the old stadium in the city's landscape will also be highlighted.

Myths, matches, and Granota memory

The walk through Vallejo will also serve to recover some of the most symbolic stories of Levante's tradition: the myth of the palm tree and the cat, the story of the club mergers, or the memory of matches that remain etched in the collective memory.

Vallejo was also a multifaceted space that hosted various sports disciplines and numerous social events, reflecting the evolution of 20th-century Valencia.

A city growing around the stadium

The activity will also provide context for the stadium within the urban transformation of the city. From the Valencia of the 1920s to the late 1960s, the surroundings of Vallejo witnessed an urban expansion that eventually fully integrated the stadium into the life of the neighborhood.

Visit information

The guided tour is free and open to all fans interested in learning about the history of Levante.

The meeting point will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 28, at the old Pont de Fusta Station, on the façade facing Almazora Street, from where the tour of the former grounds of Campo de Vallejo will begin. A unique opportunity to hear, even if just for a moment, the echo of the old Granota stadium once again.