Learn Spanish in Valencia, Spain

The province of Valencia is situated in the center of the Spanish Mediterranean coastline. It overlooks the spacious Gulf of Valencia and is skirted at the back by a group of mountains and rolling plains leading to the lands of Aragon and Castile-La Mancha. Valencia is identified with the Mediterranean Sea because the culture and social behavior and offers a picture-perfect setting for students to learn to speak Spanish.

Valencia is the administrative capital of the province. It is the most densely populated town in the province as it is encircled by a wide belt of medium-sized municipal districts which form an unbroken built-up area with an average density of 1,600 inhabitants per square kilometer. The most outstanding artistic heritage is to be found in the districts of Seu and Xerea, where the marks left by the Romans lie hidden beneath Arab ruins and modern churches.

The Mercat district took shape around the commercial life of the city's inhabitants and its two most important historic buildings are used for trading purposes. The Gothic building of La Lonja, declared by UNESCO as a heritage of humanity, features a beautiful columned room where the old tables on which trading transactions were finalized are still in use today. Outside the destroyed wall grew the Valencia of the bourgeoisie, with its wide pavements, broad landscaped thoroughfares and countless instances of modernist architecture.

Spanish Holidays in Valencia - each part of the year has its own celebration and recollection of tradition in Valencia:

The bonfires of San Antonio Abad come first on the calendar, with burning pyres of firewood and the blessing of animals.
On March 19th, the Fallas dedicated to St. Joseph take over the streets of the capital and of over 60 other towns in the province. During the Fallas, huge catafalques bearing cardboard figures are erected, to be burnt four days later amid a blaze of fireworks. These are the fiestas which attract the largest number of spectators and arouse most interest among visitors, drawn by the colorfulness of the Passacaglia, the offering to the Virgin of the helpless and the fireworks display.
The Corpus Christi, Fiesta of Moors and Christians and the famous tomato throwing fight of "La Tomatina", are other fiestas of Valencia.

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