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VALENCIA

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Spain

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population 796.549
language Spanish
currency Euro (€)
 
The old helmet is delimited by the route of the street car, that marks the footpath of where up to 1865 they were in favor the walls of the city. Here we found the greater monument concentration, pertaining in its great majority to the time of splendor after reconquers it, in 1238, when Jaime I took the city of hands Moors.

This way a comfortable route on foot can be done, happening through the last squares and solitary narrow streets that are in Valencia: We began in the Cathedral, of primitive gothic style (to grief that to her has added during the successive centuries parts of diverse styles). It has three covers, a románica, another gothic and another one barroca.

The Greater Chapel is barroca and lateral the neoclassic ones. It emphasizes in her his impressive cimborrio, the tower bell tower of octogonal plant, symbol of the city, to which they call Valencian the "Micalet" (or Miguelete). From its roof a panoramic one is descried precious; (and if it has patience like Víctor Hugo, perhaps it manages to count the 300 bell towers that affirmed that it had the city).

But the most extraordinary data is if it doubts the Room To capitulate, where venerates the one that considers Santo Ca'liz who Jesus Christ consecrated in Ultima Supper. The Museum of the Cathedral exposes paintings of Goya and Jacomart, orfebrería of Cellini, statures of Paggibonsi, pictures of the Valencian School of s. XV to the XVII and one extraordinary Safekeeping that being more modern does not have less value than others of greater antiquity. Next to the Cathedral, it is the Basilica of the Virgin of the Abandoned ones, ("Mare de Deu dels Desemparats"), the pattern of the city, and in an immediate alley the Almudín, warehouse of wheat of the medieval time, today recovered and turned Museum.

Following towards the East, in a small seat, it is the Church of San Esteban, where, according to the tradition, the Cid married to its daughters and San Vicente Ferrer was baptized. In the near street of the Palau it is the Palace of Admirals de Aragón, and in the one of Pawl of Horsemen, the Church of San Juan of the Hospital, of elegant gothic, as it is it, if not still more, the Convent of Santo Domingo, in the Seat of Tetuán, in spite of the additions of centuries XIV and XV in its interior or the cover designed by Felipe II.


The river


In the Turia river we were with three bridges of pointed plan, the Bridge of the Real one, the Bridge of the Trinidad and the Bridge of Serranos, with the Towers of Serranosantigua door of the wall (s. XV), that has as much luxury of arc of Triumph like solidity of military bastion. The channel of the Turia river, caused in 1957 a flood that it caused numerous dead and it destroyed great amount of buildings, thus was decided to turn aside it to the outskirts.

Now the old channel of the river is the scene of the sport and of the recreation of all the Valencians since by him they take a walk, they run, they go in bicycle (mainly of mountain), play soccer, rugby, to bases-ball, they slide and they do gymnastics to newspaper the thousands of citizens who congregate themselves in this pleasant lung of life that is the River.

The IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art) is a great museum that does not have to lose the lovers of the new tendencies of the art (Sculpture and Painting). It constitutes one of the three better museums of modern art of Spain. It is located opposite of the old channel of the river, to the height of the School of Languages, that is right to the other side of the channel.


The Market and its neighborhoods


By the street of Serranos we arrived at the Seat of Manises, where is the building of the Delegation, located in a beautiful palace and the later facade of the Palace of the Majority, seat of the government of the Generalitat.

This building of s. XV offers great interest by paintings murals of the Hall Cortes, the Doradoy Hall the Gallery Pictures of the Kings of Valencia. From we arrived here at the street of the Horsemen; formerly aristocratic district, whose prolongation finishes with another famous vestibule the Towers of Quart (1441) and to the seat of the Market where is the one that perhaps is the best Valencian architectonic monument. The Market, constructed by the Valencian merchants in 1483 like seat of the Hiring and the Consulate of the Sea.

Just alongside is barroca Church of the Saints Juans, whose vault painted by Palomino, at its time had one of greatest paintings murals of the world and the Bell one of the Church of Santa Catherine, also baroque. From Winch is arrived here by the street at the Palace of the Marquess of Two Waters, of Rococo style. Its delirious cover must to the imagination of painter Hipólito Rovira, who died crazy.

In contrast to this one it would be of great interest to visit the School of the Patriarch (1603), by his typical austerity of the Spanish Renaissance, or the University, neoclassic, that is just behind, or the neighbor and huge Palace of Justice, also neoclassic, crowned with a great statue of Carlos III and to few meters, is the new bridge designed by Valencian architect Santiago de Calatrava, inaugurated in 1995 and known like the Peineta by the inhabitants this city.


The district of the Carmen

It is not possible to be said that the essence is known Valencia if east district is not known; perhaps most pure-blooded and bullanguero, he is the superlative one of which in general it is all the city.

Its central seat, to that the streets of greater mercantile movement flow, and those of the leisure, where they are the credited spectacles, bars and restaurants more, present/display the most alive spectacle.

The terraces of the coffees, the positions of flowers, the showcases, and the continuous one to go and to come until the night does of this attractive district a special one.


Ensanche

Ensanche, as it reforms city-planning recent offers the calm atmosphere that causes its bourgeois population and bureaucrat. A stroll by this zone will make him include/understand the Valencia of today.


The gardens

As it says the song "Valencia is the earth of the flowers" and these can be appreciated here in colorful more intense his and fragrance. For it nothing better than to take time to occur a stroll by the beautiful parks that this city offers. The Gardens of the Tree-lined avenue or the Gardens of Monforte offer that beautiful atmosphere, neoclassic and romantic, of century XVIII with their beautiful arriates and woods adorned with statues and sources with water games. It is worth the trouble to visit the Gardens of the Real one or Breeding grounds, that have most beautiful rosaledas and their pine groves, on the knoll on which the old real palace was built, are the delight of the paseante that will be able to be lost between peculiar ruins and sources. In him is the zoological park. One more a more original atmosphere offers the Botanical, rich Garden in exotic plants. Additionally Valencia counts on a good one I number of landscaped strolls like the Stroll from Valencia to the Sea in the University City or the Great one Via, where the Mediterranean freshness is breathed.
 
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