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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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  • Sello plaza de la virgen valencia

    Roman cornucopia, symbol of Valentia, found on the floor of a Roman building excavated in the Plaça de la Mare de Déu

  • Valencia, Spain ESA396538

    Valencia and surroundings as seen by the ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite

  • Museu d'Història de València, detall del mosaic de la Medusa

    Detail of 2nd century Roman mosaic found in the city

  • Plat àrab València

    12th century Arab dish

  • València el 1563, per Anton van den Wyngaerde

    View of Valencia by Anton van den Wyngaerde (1563)

  • València el 1832, per A. Guesdon

    Valencia in 1832 by French Alfred Guesdon

  • Inauguración de los trabajos del derribo de las murallas en Valencia

    Starts of the demolition works in the walls of the city in 1865

  • Baldomer Gili Roig. El Palmar (La Albufera de València), c. 1915 (2)

    Women working at the Albufera (c. 1915)

  • Historia30-valencia - Valencia anegada por la riada de 1957

    Image of the 1957 flood

  • Valencia - panoramio (7)

    Modern developments in the Penya-Roja neighborhood

  • Banco de Valencia, Valencia, España, 2014-06-30, DD 135

    Bank of Valencia]]

  • Port of Valencia

    Aerial view of the port and Valencia from the east

  • Torrent avinguda station valencia

    Metrovalencia light rail

  • Playa de la Malvarrosa (Valencia) 01

    Malvarrosa Beach

  • Fallas2017 Mascletà 06

    ocals and tourists watching the traditional "mascletà" during Falles

  • Crema falla 2015

    La cremà (burning of the ninots) during the 2015 falles

  • SantaCatalina - Vertorama

    Baroque belfry of the Gothic Santa Catalina church

  • Cimbori almoina abril 1

    Northern view of the cathedral: dome, apse, and the Basilica of Our Lady

  • Palau generalitat9

    Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana

  • Iglesia de los Juanes, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 19

    Sant Joan del Mercat church (14th c.-1700)

  • Plaça de l'Ajuntament de València, País Valencià

    Plaça de l'Ajuntament

  • Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències

    The Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències complex designed by the architects the Valencian Santiago Calatrava and Madrilenian Félix Candela

  • Sentiment Valencianista

    Mestalla

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    Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís

  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in 1919 (cropped)

    Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  • València, pati del palau de l'Almirall

    The gothic courtyard of the Palace of the Admiral of Aragon (Palau de l'Almirall)

  • Convento de Santo Domingo, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 13

    Convento de Santo Domingo (1300-1640)

  • Lonja Techo Fisheye

    Llotja de la Seda (Silk Exchange, interior)

  • Mercado de Colón, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 09

    Mercat de Colon in Valencian Art Nouveau style

  • Dosaigues vista

    Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas

  • Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, València, Valencia, Spain - panoramio (3)

    L´Hemisfèric (IMAX Dome cinema) and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

  • El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe – Bilim ve Uzay Müzesi

    Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe

  • Ágora, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 58

    Assut de l'Or Bridge and L'Àgora behind.

  • Santjoanhospital pati

    Sant Joan de l'Hospital church built in 1316 (except for a Baroque chapel)

  • Baños del Almirante 01

    Mudéjar (Christian) baths Banys de l'Almirall (1313-1320)

  • Qk-Antoni-Peris-detalle-06

    The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, is the second museum with the largest amount of paintings in Spain, after Prado Museum

  • Mercat façana5

    Mercat Central (Central Market), in Valencian Art Nouveau style

  • Patriarca dins

    Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi

  • València, Paseo Real Basilica Nuestra Señora-PM 51920

    One of the few arch-bridges that links the cathedral with neighboring buildings. This one built in 1666.

  • WLM14ES - CONVENTO DE SAN MIGUEL DE LOS REYES DE VALENCIA 06122009 130023 00062 -

    Monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes built between 1548 and 1763

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