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Valencia: Cabanyal and Calatrava
DID I SAY Valencia was ‘lively’? Make that crazy. The Valencians are very fond of firecrackers. As I write this, around midnight Friday, explosions are resounding throughout the city as they have been for days, building toward a fireworks display … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, SPAIN, TRAVEL
Tagged Cabanyal, Casa Montana, City of Arts and Sciences, Fallas, fireworks, Hempisheric, L'Eixample, La Riua, Malvarossa, opera house, paella, Santiago Calatrava, SH Valencia Palace, turia, Umbracle, Valencia
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Valencia’s River of Green
VALENCIA IS FULL OF MADDING CROWDS RIGHT NOW — the week-long Fallas festival,which takes place March 15-19 as it has for hundreds of years — involves lots of noise, color, and activity. Brass bands march through the streets, following parades … Continue reading
Valencia: Historico Centro
I’M IN VALENCIA, SPAIN, city of parks and paella, of rich and tangled history, with many outstanding architectural remnants thereof. Valencia has 300 days of sunshine a year. Yesterday was not one of them. But gray though it was, it … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cathedral, Colon, Fallas, Gothic, Lonja, market hall, Mercado Central, Modernismo, Old City, paella, SH Valencia Palace, Silk Exchange, Valencia
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