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Valencia Travel Guide - Travel to Valencia
Welcome to Valencia, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, it is considerated the third most important city in this country and the second most important along the Spanish Mediterranean coast after Barcelona.
It is a lively city which has a very long and rich history, and it has grown rapidly along these last years. Nowadays it is faster becoming an alternative to Barcelona and Madrid.
This grown is the result of the adaptation to time conserving its rich heritage along the pass of the years, and at the same time, it has become an economic and financial leader in Spain. This progress it is also the result of two big reasons, first, the construction of the amazing city of Arts and Sciences, which attracts about 4 million people every year, and second, the America's Cup, which took place by three moths in Valencia, during the year 2007.
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Valencia is situated in a fertile terrain on the east coast of Spain and near to the mouth of the Turia river, in a region called "Comunidad Valenciana" which consists in the provinces of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón.
Valencia is known around the world for its "Fallas", "La Tomatina" festival, its Cathedral, the kindly nature of their people, its famous gastronomy, which best representant is the "Paella Valenciana", its night life, its great weather and of course its agriculture, specially by their oranges which are widely exported.
Valencia is also very well known by its famous "El Cid", a Spain's national hero who fought against the Moors when Valencia was dominated by these people. This oppression lasted from the invasion of Valencia until the 13th century; In these days, several villages and festivals still remembering these facts.
The nice weather, which last all the year, invites you to do and visit a lot of interesting places such as the interactive science museum, outstanding artists's works such as Goya's or Velázquez's which are preserved in its art galleries, its beautiful aquarium, its planetarium, its IMAX theater, one of the best in Europe, etc.
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