Valencia Facts for Kids

For other uses, see Valencia (disambiguation).

Valencia (red dot) on a map of Spain

Valencia is a city in Spain, on the Mediterranean coast. It is the capital of the Community of Valencia. It has 807,396 people, making it the third-largest city in Spain and the fifteenth in the European Union.

Valencia's climate is on the boundary of hot semi-arid (Bsh in the Koeppen climate classification) and hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa in the Koeppen climate classification).

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Roman cornucopia, symbol of Valentia, found on the floor of a Roman building excavated in the Plaça de la Mare de Déu
Valencia and surroundings as seen by the ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite
Detail of 2nd century Roman mosaic found in the city
12th century Arab dish
View of Valencia by Anton van den Wyngaerde (1563)
Valencia in 1832 by French Alfred Guesdon
Starts of the demolition works in the walls of the city in 1865
Women working at the Albufera (c. 1915)
Image of the 1957 flood
Modern developments in the Penya-Roja neighborhood
Bank of Valencia]]
Aerial view of the port and Valencia from the east
Metrovalencia light rail
Malvarrosa Beach
ocals and tourists watching the traditional "mascletà" during Falles
La cremà (burning of the ninots) during the 2015 falles
Baroque belfry of the Gothic Santa Catalina church
Northern view of the cathedral: dome, apse, and the Basilica of Our Lady
Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana
Sant Joan del Mercat church (14th c.-1700)
Plaça de l'Ajuntament
The Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències complex designed by the architects the Valencian Santiago Calatrava and Madrilenian Félix Candela
Mestalla
Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís
Valencia Street Circuit
Juan Luis Vives
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Cathedral of Valencia
The gothic courtyard of the Palace of the Admiral of Aragon (Palau de l'Almirall)
Convento de Santo Domingo (1300-1640)
Llotja de la Seda (Silk Exchange, interior)
Mercat de Colon in Valencian Art Nouveau style
Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas
L´Hemisfèric (IMAX Dome cinema) and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
Assut de l'Or Bridge and L'Àgora behind.
Sant Joan de l'Hospital church built in 1316 (except for a Baroque chapel)
Mudéjar (Christian) baths Banys de l'Almirall (1313-1320)
The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, is the second museum with the largest amount of paintings in Spain, after Prado Museum
Mercat Central (Central Market), in Valencian Art Nouveau style
Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi
One of the few arch-bridges that links the cathedral with neighboring buildings. This one built in 1666.
Monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes built between 1548 and 1763

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