CavaTravel.com: Travel Info: Valencia, Spain

There is a quality of light unique to Valencia, which feels like a flood, overwhelming, permeating, and reinventing the person who perceives it. Spain's third largest city, Valencia hides a myriad of surprising and textured cultural experiences. The surrounding landscape is laced with geometrically plotted orchards and is famed for its agricultural richness and productivity. [Full Profile]

Architecture
Valencia is home to the most daring architectural project in Spain today, but also includes elegant and inspiring architectural achievements from various periods throughout history.

Featured Favorite: City of Arts & Sciences

Visit the City of Arts and Sciences, a major architectural achievement and one of the leading attractions in all of Spain, even before its completion. The CAS contains hanging gardens, a performing arts center, a revolutionary planetarium, a science museum and an aquarium.

Restaurants
Find one-of-a-kind small restaurants, nestled in the winding streets of the city's center.

Featured Favorite: La Pappardella

A cozy Italian eatery, nestled in the clutch of streets that surround the old cathedral. Excellent food selection. Exceptional atmosphere. A warm and engaging experience that will make Valencia feel a little more personal and intimate.

More about La Pappardella, from CavaTravel.com: Click Here »

Visit them on the web at ViciosItalianos.com

Hotels
Affordable 3-star hotels in the city's center make Valencia an inviting stop on a tour of the coast. Also find small hostels with very low cost, but fewer amenities.

Nightlife
The Plaza de Toros, next to the Estaçió del Nord, is often used for concerts, and the experience spills into the streets, near the city's center.

Daytrips
Sagunt » Alicante

Transportation
Regional trains, planes and buses provide access to Valencia from throughout Spain.

Xampanyería: A Memoir of Spain

Nothing easier than getting lost in the ruins of another time.

The cobbles, the asphalt, the air were rich with sea salt. The mountains on the northwestern edge of Barcelona invited morning fogs to hang over the whole city, sinking only reluctantly back to the shoreline. These fogs lifted the sediment of history, daily, into the air, a ritual cleaning. A salty timeless savor would, daily, override the sooty-city residue of industry. For those intimate, empty hours, life itself opened up, became vulnerable, reliant upon our will. We tended to attempt to dwell among the salts.

No matter what my intended destination (many days I would have an insurmountable urge to pass by the Museo Picasso; other days, it was more important to find myself at the port’s edge, watching the world in flux), all streets, every exiting of an art gallery, every callejón or escondrijo, every late café luncheon, would lead me back to the xampanyería. We would sometimes joke that all of the Barri Gótic was a series of compartments of the spirit, all fascinating but exhausting, all begging the loud, unclean serenity of the crowded cava bar.

At four p.m., possibly, definitely within the hour, one could locate Michael or Saint Jerome or Renault, Farola or the Dutchman. Nevertheless, it was always the outside, the persistence of the old places, that would drive us there. It was always an integral part of a more organismal experience, never solely, or statically, ‘a separate peace’. [Full Text]

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Oxígeno y ciprés: junio en España

ENTRANDO...

Camino por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo. Recuerdo sin fallos el lugar y el sentido del lugar. Ver el mismo cactus, el encanto de las plantas que llueven sobre los muros, ver la casa, el umbral, la cara y bondad insondable de Gloria, que siempre me cuidaba tan bien, significa una colaboración improbable con el fluír temporal.

Cenamos y hablamos de literatura, de leyenda y de la verdad. Hablamos de ese espacio infinito que corre por entre los nudos y planicies de la biografía a medias.

Me encuentro entre planes, entre mundos, entre variados trayectos de un progreso incierto que se llama vida. El aire tenue y privado está repleto de fantasmas e ideales, preferencias, gustos, y todo lo demás que pueda trascender los cambios cotidianos de la vida... [Texto completo]

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