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Valencia, founded in the second century BC by the Romans, is the third city in Spain for number of inhabitants, after Madrid and Barcelona. It is the capital of Valencia, besides being an important port on the Mediterranean Sea.

Kitchen valencia
The typical dish and a native of Valencia, is the paella. This is a delicious dish made with saffron, oliodi olive, rice which takes its name from the metal container where it is cooked, said Valencian Paella. There are now several types, but the traditional recipe includes, in addition to ingrendienti basis, meat (rabbit and chicken) and vegetables (such as beans and tomatoes).
Another typical specialties Valencia is the horchata, a refreshing drink made with sugar, water and chufa, a tuber widespread in the plain of Valencia. It is served in most bars, kiosks street vendors, and local dedicated precisely those horchaterías. Other typical product is the ‘Agua de Valencia, a cocktail made with orange juice, cava (Spanish sparkling wine) and vodka.

Art and culture

Between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century in Valencia were carried out numerous architectural and urban planning projects that have given a new look to the city, doing live tradition and innovation. This is the case of Valenciano of Modern Art, entered the Gotha of the international art centres and the Centro del Carmen, magnificent recovery of a Renaissance monastery devoted to contemporary art. But the more work that has helped the relaunch of Valencia is the City of Arts and Sciences, an architectural complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava, composed of five different structures divided into three thematic areas: art, science and nature. Museums, auditoriums, one of the largest aquariums in Europe and much more can be admired within five structures, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, L’Umbracle, El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, and Oceanogràfic, symbol “City”, the Hemisfèric: a building made up of a hemisphere poggiata the ground topped by a mobile cage. This appears that a more sculptural architecture that takes even valences painting at twilight: in the absence of sunlight and illuminated by lights placed along its surface, the architectural structure is reflected on the stretch of water below regalandoci not a double, but a whole. The image that we admire is that of an eye whose capacity suggestive seems inspired by The faux miroir of Magritte, where the pupil is a sphere el’iride the sky.

Valencia Movida
Valencia compared to Madrid and Barcelona contende the primacy of the queen of the night (life), even if the nightlife of valencia is unique. The most populated areas of bars, pubs and clubs are Cànovas, the Barrio del Carmen (where there is a greater assortment of local and alternative modaioli) and the Ciutat Universitaria, particularly along Avenida de Blasco Ibáñez and the streets surrounding the Plaza de Xuquer.