The City of Arts and Sciences

Valencia

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November 17th 2008
This past weekend our group went to Valencia. After a 4 hour bus ride, we arrived and immediately met our tour guide to see the city! We saw the Cathedral, which to be honest looks like every other cathedral we have visited in Spain, a palace/really pretty house, and just walked around the city. It was nice except that the tour guide just kept talking and talking about completely irrelevant thi ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more