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Valencia City
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Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, for ages languished in the long shadows cast by
Madrid, Spain's political capital, and Barcelona, the country's cultural and economic
powerhouse. No longer. Stunning public buildings have changed the city's skyline:
Sir Norman Foster's Palacio de Congresos, David Chipperfield's award-winning
Veles i Vents structure beside the inner port, and, on the grandest scale of all, the
Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencas, designed in the main by Santiago Calatrava, a
local boy made good.
An increasingly popular short-break venue, Valencia is where paella first
simmered over a wood fire. It's a vibrant, friendly, mildly chaotic place with two out-
standing fine-arts museums, an accessible old quarter, Europe's newest cultural
and scientific complex - and one of Spain's most exciting nightlife scenes.
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