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About Valencia
Valencia is the third largest city in Spain, and among the liveliest. It is located on a extensive coastline plain in the Mediterranean coastline. With a wonderful climate, Valencia offers great beaches, water sports, a great variety of cuisine, open-minded and friendly people, and a culture worth discovering. Valencia is surrounded by some of the most popular holiday resorts in Europe.
  
Valencia has a modern network of transport links, making it easily accesible from the main cities in Europe. Inside Valencia, the main sights are linked by a comprehensive urban transport network.
 
Valencia City offers you as much as a big city but, at the same time, it is comfortable to get round and easy to discover.
Valencia is a city that boasts many parks and gardens. One of the most outstanding of these is the Turia Gardens, the Glorieta (just beside our school), the Alameda...
Valencia has 68 km city cicle track, the largest in Spain or if you prefer, you can walk around the old town. Take to the sea, learn how to handle a boat and visit the America´s Cup House at the Port.
Albufera Nature Park is only 20 km form Valencia city. It is one of the most ecological spaces in Europe.
 
| Valencia facts: |
| Population: |
746.683 |
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Time zone GMT/UTC: 1 hour |
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Huge cultural patrimony
Valencia has a huge cultural patrimony, it’s a city with a long and interesting history. Back in the XIV and XV centuries, Valencia City was one of the most important and prosperous Spanish cities. You may visit many old monuments like the Towers of Serranos and Quart, the Lonja, the Cathedral, the old Market, the Carmen Quarter, but also modern places such as the futuristic City of Arts and Sciences (constructed by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava), IVAM and MUVIM museums, etc.
 
 
Festivities
- Fallas de Valencia
Las Fallas, a world known festival in which the whole city becomes a huge powder keg full of music and colour for five long days, which culminate with the burning of more than 800 papier-mâché monuments around the city. It takes place in March.
- July Fair
Summer fiesta includes a grand contest of brass bands and the battle of flowers.
- Tomatina
Regarding to other festivals, one of the more original is the also world-famous “Tomatina”, a festival held on the third week of August in a village very near Valencia in which, after a night of drinking and dancing, everybody gets involved in a peacefully wild “Tomato War” .
Things to see
- House of the America´s Cup
Valencia will host the 2007 America's Cup, making the Spanish port the first European venue since 1851 for sailing's oldest tournament. Valencia, was chosen for its tourism infrastructure and because steady summer breezes guarantee start times for the 32nd edition of the race. It is the first time the event has been held off mainland Europe in its 152-year history because none of the European challengers had been successful to win hosting rights until this year's stunning triumph by a Swiss boat.
- City of Arts and Sciences (Ciudad de Artes y Ciencias)
- Cathedral and Miguelete bell tower
- The Rice Museum
- Bullfighting Museum
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