Valencia, Spain Information And Events

List of sports teams from Valencia:

• Levante UD ( Football )
• Valencia CF ( Football )
• Valencia BC ( Basketball )
• Ros Casares Valencia ( Basketball )

The capital of the Kingdom of Valencia was moved to Orihuela, an outrage to the citizens of Valencia.

Holy week celebrations in Valencia are considered some of the most colourful in Spain.[citation needed ] Valencia has a metro system, the Metrovalencia (Valencia Metro).

The largest plaza in Valencia is the Plaça de l'Ajuntament or Plaza del Ayuntamiento; it is home to the City Hall (Ayuntamiento) on its western side and the central post office (Edificio de Correos) on its eastern side, a cinema that shows classic movies, and many restaurants and bars.

Valencia was one of the most influential cities on the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th centuries.

The valencia was divided into two parts—one was unchanged while the other section was modified for the America's Cup festivities.

Valencia is about 134.65 square kilometers with a population of 798,033 in the year 2011.

Sample list of famous events happened in Valencia:

• Battle of Valencia
• CSEDU 2010
• EDCC-8 Conference
• Siege of Valencia
• Congress on Trends in Medical Mycology
• European Grand Prix
• Valencia International Film Festival Cinema Jove

Also around this time, between 1499 and 1502, the University of Valencia was founded under the parsimonious name of Estudio General (General Studies).

With the advent of democracy in Spain, the ancient kingdom of Valencia was established as a new autonomous entity, the Valencian Community, the Statute of Autonomy of 1982 designating Valencia as its capital.

Valencia's official website is http://www.valencia.es/

Valencia is located in Valencian Community, Spain.

Population of Valencia was 798,033 in the year 2011.

The valencia was listed as one of the four leading Spanish universities in the 2011 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Valencia's geo-coordinates are 39.4667° N, 0.3833° W.

Sample list of newspapers published in Valencia:

• La Razón
• ADN
• Qué!

The valencia is spelled according to Catalan etymology, though its pronunciation is closer to Vulgar Latin).

List of airports near Valencia:

• Valencia Airport

Sample list of tourist attractions in Valencia:

• Museu de Belles Arts de València
• City of Arts and Sciences
• Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
• Ibiza
• Mercado Central

Valencia is integrated into an industrial area on the Costa del Azahar (Orange Blossom Coast).

Valencia was once a venue for the Formula One European Grand Prix, first hosting the event on 24 August 2008.

Valencia is also internationally famous for its football club, Valencia C.F., which won the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004 (the year it also won the UEFA Cup), for a total of six times, and was a UEFA Champions League runner-up in 2000 and 2001.

The University of Valencia (officially Universitat de València Estudi General) was founded in 1499, being one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest university in the Valencian Community.

Here are average temperatures and rainfall of Valencia by month ( based on last 5 years ) :

Sample list of famous people who were born in Valencia:

• Javier Farinós
• Juan Francisco García ( Football player )
• José Francisco Molina ( Manager and Football player )
• Rodrigo Gimeno
• Vicente Rodríguez ( Soccer Player )
• Roberto Soldado ( Football player )
• José Enrique Gutiérrez
• Ortifus ( Cartoonist )
• Pablo Redondo Martínez
• Luis Lucia ( Screenwriter, Film Director and Caricaturist )
• Natalio Lorenzo Poquet
• José Enrique Sánchez ( Football player )
• Rolando Svanidze
• María Teresa Fernández de la Vega ( Jurist )
• Víctor Marco
• Javi Navarro
• Jaime Gavilán ( Football player )
• Louis Bertrand
• Julio Peris Brell ( Painter )
• José Iturbi ( Conductor and Pianist )
• Vincent Ferrer ( Philosopher )
• Arturo Llobell ( Race car driver )
• David Cerrajería
• Fernando Gómez
• Ángel Montoro Sánchez
• Juanjo Camacho
• Diana Dey
• Daniel Gimeno-Traver
• David Bernabeu
• Sergio Barila
• Rafael Casero
• Voro
• Cosme de Torrès
• Carles Soler i Salvador
• Andreu Soler i Salvador
• Vicent Salvador Fillol
• Ernesto Salvador Lafuente
• Adriana Salvador Campos
• Rodolf Soler i Roch ( Professor )
• Júlia Salvador ( Teacher )
• María Teresa Soler Roch ( Professor )
• Jordi Palau Ballester
• Carla Saz i Quilis
• Jaume Guerra
• Violeta Ausina
• Natxo Jiménez
• Vicente Martín y Soler ( Opera composer )
• Vicente Martinez Ybor ( Business magnate and Manufacturing )
• David García Haro
• Francisca Ballesteros

The event was commemorated in a poem by Ibn Khafaja in which he thanked Yusuf ibn Tashfin for the city's liberation.The declining power of the Almoravids coincided with the rise of a new dynasty in North Africa, the Almohads, who seized control of the peninsula from the year 1145, although their entry into Valencia was deterred by Ibn Mardanis, King of Valencia and Murcia until 1171, at which time the city finally fell to the North Africans.

Valencia was selected in 2003 to host the historic America's Cup yacht race, the first European city ever to do so.

In its long history, Valencia has acquired many local traditions and festivals, among them the Falles, which were declared Celebrations of International Touristic Interest (Fiestas de Interés Turístico Internacional) on 25 January 1965, and the Water Tribunal of Valencia (Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia), which was declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity (Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad) in 2009.