Valencia is the third city of Spain, by number of inhabitants, after Madrid and Barcelona. It counts 780,000 inhabitants, approximately. It is located to the east of the Iberian Peninsula, next to the Mediterranean Sea, at an altitude of 13 meters on the level of the sea.

The climate is smooth, typically Mediterranean, with an average annual temperature above 17ºC.

The summer is warm and winter is very moderate.

Rain is not abundant. It is concentrated at the autumn months and at the beginning of spring. The summer period is specially dry.

Valencia is crossed by the Turia river, and surrounded by eight drains, built by muslims, and destined to the irrigated land agriculture.

More than half of the population works in the sector services, and less of 2% is dedicated to agriculture.

It was founded by the Romans on year 138 before Christ. By its proximity to the important Saguntum (at the moment Sagunto), Valencia had a secondary paper at the Roman time.

The Muslims conquered Valencia in 718, they constructed its system of irrigated land, and they turned it one of the main cities of Al-Andalus.

King Jaume I, conquested it for the Christians in 1238, reusing the public buildings of the Muslim era, and turning the mosque the present Cathedral.

In 1356 the wall was constructed, it counted on 12 doors of which only two last: The Towers of Serranos and the Towers of Quart.

In century XV Valencia reaches his maximum splendor, being the second greater city of the peninsula, after Granada.

In 1865 the wall was demolished.

In 1957 the Turia river was overflowed, causing thousands of victims. After the disaster, a plan of deflection of the channel started up ("the South Plan") that culminated in 1981, turning the Turia old channel in an extensive garden.