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Museu de les Ciències in Valencia, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. The history of Valencia, one of the oldest cities in Spain, begins over 2100 years ago with its founding as a Roman colony under the name "Valentia Edetanorum" on the site of a former Iberian town, [1] by the river Turia in the province of Edetania. [2]
Valencia's port is the biggest on the Mediterranean western coast, [97] the first in Spain in container traffic as of 2008 [98] and the second in Spain [99] in total traffic, handling 20% of Spain's exports. [100]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, Spain ... 1021 – Independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia was established [2] 1064 CE ...
The city of Valencia (capital of the Valencian Community) was founded by the Romans under the name of Valentia Edetanorum, or simply Valentia, which translates to "strength" or "valour", in full "strength of the Edetani" (the centre of Edetania was Edeta, an important old Iberian settlement 25 km north of Valencia, in what is now modern day Llíria, other important nearby settlements included ...
The town of Chiva, west of Valencia province, recorded 491mm of rain in just eight hours – more than it has seen over the past 20 months, according to Spain’s weather service.
An ancient shipwreck that dates back to the 7th century B.C.E. has been removed from waters off Spain, two decades after its discovery in 1994. 2,600-year-old shipwreck is raised from waters off Spain
Valencia has a slew of great rooftop bars too, from the panoramic vistas over the Turia Gardens at Blanq Carmen to the summer parties on the terrace at L’Umbracle, another part of the City of Arts.
The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the ... (Galicia, Old Castile and ... The Spanish Republican government moved to Valencia, to ...