Valencia

Valencia

Understand Saló Columnari (Hall of Columns) in the Llotja de la Seda Jardí del Túria, the old Túria riverbed, with the Museum of Fine Arts in the background Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, in the City of Arts and Sciences, designed by Santiago Calatrava Valentia Edetanorum was established as a Roman colony in the second century BCE. In the early 8th century CE the Moors invaded, and Balansiyya became the capital of the Muslim Taifa of Valencia, thriving as a trading centre for paper, silk, ceramics, glass, and silver. With a brief interlude of Christian control in the 11th century under El Cid, the city remained in Muslim hands until the Christian Reconquista led by King Jaume I of Aragon in 1238, and was incorporated as a kingdom under the Crown of Aragon. Valencia experienced its golden age in the 15th century, with a growing population and flowering of Valencian culture and the arts. Significant monuments from this period include the cathedral’s Micalet, the UNESCO-listed Llotja de la Seda, and the Torres dels Serrans…

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