Download or read book Valencia Spain written by Ari Hakkarainen and published by Klaava Media. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valencia, the third largest city in Spain, has been a central Mediterranean trading place since ancient times. The fascinating history is still present in the city for visitors to explore, along with recently created modern wonders. What makes Valencia a unique Spanish destination is not only the fact it is regarded as the home of paella or the host city of the Holy Grail, but it is a city of contrasts. Temperate Mediterranean climate makes Valencia a pleasant destination to visit any time of year. A trip to the city can be planned as a dive into its culture and urban environment, as a relaxing break on the beach, as a road trip to nearby mountains and towns, or a combination of all of these elements. All these aspects are covered in the book. A traveler can spend days exploring ancient houses and public buildings in the old city center. Only a few minutes away from the narrow alleys, the ultramodern City of Arts and Sciences easily takes the breath away from accidental visitors. Valencianos know how to have a good time, and fortunately, they organize massive parties – fiestas – around the year so that everyone can join them. Fiestas are celebrated on the streets, bars and restaurants with the biggest event, Fallas in March, lasting for a couple of weeks. Discover tips for this Unesco Heritage fiesta along with other events in the book. The guidebook features hundreds of images – photos and maps – that allow travelers to visually discover the sights and places they would like to visit. Readers who want specific information on the destinations in Valencia find the details in the book as well, along with the history of the city from the Roman era to modern times.

Download or read book Travel Like a Local Map of Valencia written by Maxwell Fox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Ready For The Adventure Of A Lifetime! Are you planning your next vacation abroad and you're ready to explore? Do you want to be prepared for everything? Are you ready to experience every new place you visit just like a local? Well, with this amazing Valencia (Spain) travel map you're all set and ready to go! The Valencia (Spain) map was carefully designed to give you amazing results and make traveling easier than ever. We make sure to constantly update our info to give you the most relevant and accurate information, so you will never get confused or frustrated during your Valencia (Spain) trip. The map is very detailed and it will not only give you all the available roads and routes, but also the essential information to make your Valencia (Spain) vacation unforgettable. In the map you can see all the available means of transport, bus stops and routes so you can always know how to get everywhere. And because we know that a vacation is not only about the roads and busses, the map gives you many options for eating, drinking and having a good time! We carefully marked all the restaurants, bars and pubs so you can always find one that is nearby. In the Valencia (Spain) map you will also find the best places to go shopping, the most famous and must-see sights, churches and more. And if an emergency comes up, there are markings of police stations and hospitals everywhere for your convenience. Each kind of marking has a different color so you can easily navigate around the map and find exactly what you're looking for within seconds. The city is also organized in sections so you can better find your way around. So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags, get your map and let's get started! Just Click "Add To Cart Now"

Download or read book Twenty Restaurants in the Centre of Valencia Spain A Guide to Eating Tapas Paellas Wine Ham and Understanding Menus written by Marc Luxen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I went to live in Valencia to write a Dutch and a Dutch-Indonesian cookbook, and have eaten at many places here while I have been doing that (the books are nearly finished). Here are twenty local restaurants that my friends and I like. We are talking about the 10 to 20 euro restaurants here.With phone numbers, opening times, a clear map, a link to Google maps so you can use your smartphone to find these places easily, and a short description of what to expect. In the print version there is also QR code as well as link to Google Maps, so you can scan with your mobile directly to Google maps. Last, a list of Spanish food terms.First, I will tell you something about the peculiarities of eating in Spain. The Siesta system, the "paella system", all about ham, wine and other important drinks, and the menu del dia. Then I will give you a list of common dishes you can use when deciphering a menu or what a waiter is trying to tell you. Following is a list of restaurants where you can go and experience good food.

Download or read book Valencia and Murcia Rough Guides Snapshot Spain written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot to Valencia and Murcia is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating region of Spain. It leads you through the area with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the major sights and attractions. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, pubs, and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of your trip, whether passing through, staying for the weekend, or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Spain, with all the practical information you need for traveling in and around Valencia and Murcia, including transportation, food, drink, costs, health, events, and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Spain.

Download or read book Valencia written by Michael Eaude and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The towns of Valencia's long coast and privileged climate, in particular Benidorm, southern Europe's skyscraper capital, are famous beach tourism destinations. Country of fire, fireworks and long meals (often featuring the renowned paella), Valencia is a Mediterranean land where people know how to enjoy life. This book tells the story of today's Spanish provinces of Valencia, Castelló and Alacant (Alicante), with their profound Moorish legacy. The Moors designed the intricate system of irrigation that still nourishes Valencia's prosperous horta (market garden). They brought, too, the silk, paper, and orange industries. The area is rich in monuments, many from its golden fifteenth century, when the capital became the wealthiest city on the Western Mediterranean. This book discusses Sagunt's Roman theater and castle; Gandia, home to the ill-reputed Borja (or Borgia) family of popes; Elx, embraced by 200,000 palms; and Alcoi, anarchist stronghold. Michael Eaude discusses Valencia's art, literature and architecture: the painters Ribera and light-filled Sorolla; the great medieval poet of anguish Ausiàs March. Santiago Calatrava's architecture, conjuring the sensation of soaring flight from steel, has given Valencia City its new trophy buildings. Despite its continuing popularity as a tourist destination, there are still deserted beaches, sinister and beautiful marshland, orange groves and a depopulated mountainous interior. Valencia: A Cultural History seeks to explain this contradictory and divided land, its identity pulled between the Spanish state and Catalonia.

Download or read book Ghosts of Spain written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent odyssey through Spain's dark history journeys into the heart of the Spanish Civil War to examine the causes and consequences of a painful recent past, as well as its repercussions in terms of the discovery of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads and the lives of modern-day Spaniards. Reprint.

Download or read book A Death in Valencia written by Jason Webster and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Max Cámara is under pressure. A renowned paella chef has been found dead; the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fisherman's quarter on Valencia's sea-front; an abortionist has been kidnapped and with the Pope due to visit the city, the police are summoned to offer protection from crowds of the faithful and the danger of anti-religionists alike. When one of Cámara's long term adversaries is put in charge of the missing abortionist case, tensions are quickly running high, and with ominous cracks spreading across the walls of his flat, Cámara soon has nowhere to turn.

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Spain Andalucia Ronda and Granada Murcia Valencia and Catalonia the portions best suited for the invalid written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City Maps Valencia Spain written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Valencia Spain is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Valencia adventure :)

Download or read book Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia 1478 1834 written by Stephen Haliczer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Haliczer has mined rich documentary sources to produce the most comprehensive and enlightening picture yet of the Inquisition in Spain. The kingdom of Valencia occupies a uniquely important place in the history of the Spanish Inquisition because of its large Muslim and Jewish populations and because it was a Catalan kingdom, more or less "occupied" by the despised Castilians who introduced the Inquisition. Haliczer underscores the intensely regional nature of the Valencian tribunal. He shows how the prosecution of religious deviants, the recruitment and professional activity of Inquisitors and officials, and the relations between the Inquisition and the majority Old Christian population all clearly reflect the place and the society. A great series of pogroms swept over Spain during the summer of 1391. Jewish communities were attacked and the Jews either massacred or forced to convert. More than ninety percent of the victims of the Valencian Inquisition a century later were descendants of those who chose conversion, the conversos. Haliczer argues convincingly against those who see all the conversos as "secret Jews." He finds, on the contrary, that a wide range of religious beliefs and practices existed among them and that some were even able to assimilate into Old Christian society by becoming familiares of the Inquisition itself. Nevertheless, it was controversy over the sincerity of the converted which spawned the first proposals for the establishment of a Spanish national Inquisition. That very same controversy, persisting in the writings of history, may be resolved by Haliczer's stimulating discoveries. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia is a major contribution to the lively field of Inquisition studies, combining institutional history of the tribunal with socioreligious history of the kingdom. The many case histories included in the narrative give both Valencian society and the Inquisition very human faces. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Download or read book Valencia written by Sally Davies and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The siege of Valencia written by Mrs. Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding Spain written by Julián Marías and published by La Editorial, UPR. This book was released on 1990 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Spain written by Josephine Quintero and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. The also is packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions this country has to offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region by region, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets. Detailed transportation and other practical information will help you to get around by train, bus, or car. With insider tips and essential local information, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain will help you explore every corner of Spain effortlessly.

Download or read book Strength Valor A Kid s Guide To Valencia Spain written by Penelope Dyan and published by Bellissima Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valencia is the third largest city in Spain, after Madrid and Barcelona. Founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC, it got its name from the Romans. (The city s name Valencia means strength and Valor, honoring Roman soldiers.) The middle ages saw the invasion of the Germanic peoples and overtaking by the church which changed Roman buildings into religious buildings. The city then surrendered without a fight to invading Moors in 714 AD. In 1238, King James I of Aragon, with armies of Aragonese, Catalans, Navarrese and crusaders from the Calatrava order, laid siege to Valencia. On September 28, the city surrendered. A mixture of Jewish, Christians and Muslims were all allowed to remain in the city as history moved forward. What we have today is a beautiful city filled with art, culture, diversity and a lot of fun things for a kid to see and to do! You can see some of what award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan and photographer, John D. Weigand saw on their visit to Valencia, Spain, as you turn the pages of this learn to read book filled with word repetition, word recognition and rhyme. Then, to see even more of this city, you can watch the free music video that goes with this book that you can find on the Belissimavideo YouTube channel."

Download or read book St Laurence the Holy Grail written by Janice Bennett and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars are convinced that The Holy Chalice of Valencia is the Holy Grail, celebrated in medieval legends as it was venerated by monks in the secluded Monastery of San Juan de la Peña, built into a rocky outcropping of the Spanish Pyrenees. The tradition of Aragón has always insisted that the flaming agate cup of the Holy Chalice was sent to Spain by St. Laurence, the glorious Spaniard martyred on a gridiron during the Valerian persecution in Rome in 258 AD. Now there is new evidence: A sixth-century manuscript written in Latin by St. Donato, an Augustinian monk who founded a monastery in the area of Valencia, provides never-before-published details about Laurence, born in Valencia but destined for Italy, where he became treasurer and deacon of the Catholic Church under Pope Sixtus II. It explicitly mentions the details surrounding the transfer of the Holy Cup of the Last Supper to Spain. Janice Bennett acquaints the reader with the enthralling story of the Holy Chalice, the renowned relic that embarked from the Last Supper on an amazing pilgrimage that providentially ended in the Cathedral of Valencia, a miraculous odyssey that has been characterized by danger, greed, martyrdom and fire. It is a fascinating and captivating account that will dispel forever the erroneous notion that the famous relic was ever lost. The mythical Quest for the Holy Grail is now over. Includes 20 pages of color illustrations.

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Portugal written by John Fisher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Portugal is the essential travel guide with clear maps and coverage of the country's unique attractions. The Rough Guide to Portugal guides you around the fashionable cities of Lisbon and Porto, takes you hiking in the hills of central and northern Portugal, and covers every beach along the Algarve making it the ideal companion whether you're on a city break, beach holiday, walking or driving. The guide unearths the best sites, hotels, restaurants, and nightlife across every price range- from backpacker hostels to beachfront villas and boutique hotels. You'll find specialist coverage of Portugese history, art and literature and detailed information on the best markets and shopping for each region. The locally-based Rough Guide author team introduce the best vineyards, country taverns and fado clubs and provide reliable insider tips from driving Portugal's roads to shopping for linen and lace. Explore all corners of Portugal with authoritative background on everything from Porto's architecture to surfing at Peniche, relying on handy language tips and the clearest maps of any guide. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Portugal.