Valentia island off the South-West coast of Ireland near the Peninsula Iveragh (is part of County Kerry). It is a small picturesque island, which is only 11 km and a width of about 3 km, and the population does not exceed 700 people (census 2011). To reach the island via Memorial bridge Maurice o'neill, who, in fact, connects the Southern and the island of Ireland, or using the services of a ferry crossing.

Today Valentia island, largely thanks to its proximity to one of the most famous and interesting tourist routes Ireland – Ring of Kerry, is particularly popular. However, it is worth noting that his sights are really worth your attention.

Discover the history of the island of Valentia, please visit the heritage Centre. However, a lot of interesting and informative information you can learn and with special signage that will meet while climbing mount Gaokao (the highest point on Valentia). The mountain itself Gaokao is renowned for its panoramic views and breathtaking scenery and incredible cliffs of Fogerom, which reaches a height of 180 m, is simply breathtaking.

Among the attractions of the island it is worth mentioning the so-called Telegraph field, is the memorial erected in 2002 as a memory of the fact that Valentia in 1866 was the final stage in the attempts to lay a transatlantic Telegraph cable, and thus, finally, to establish a permanent relationship between Europe and America. You can visit the House Glanleam and its famous tropical gardens, founded in the 1830s, sir Peter George Fitzgerald. However, a lot of fun and you will receive just strolling along the streets of the cozy town of Natstown (the administrative centre Valentia).

Special interest Valentia island and is for paleontologists, as it is here in 1993, student geologist had discovered the fossilized remains of primitive vertebrates that lived in these parts about 385 million years ago.