Where is it? Valencia is the third largest city of Spain and is located on the Mediterranean sea halfway down the east coast of Spain. What is its history? Although settlements go back many more years, the Romans developed the area around Valencia as land was given to soldiers as retirement payment. Valencia started to blossom a thousand years ago and became an important seafaring city and frontier city in the wars between Christian and Moorish forces in what is known as the...
Football is the world’s biggest sport and more books and articles have been written about this game than any other. When living in Spain, you realize just how much football is ingrained in its culture. When F.C. Barcelona won the league last Sunday, the largest “serious” newspaper in Cataluña dedicated its first 8 pages of the Monday edition to this event. Unthinkable in other countries. Let’s have a look as to why this could be. For the casual observer, Spain as an...
F.C. Barcelona, Football, Real Madrid
