Living Valencia

The city is a live-theatre stage for its inhabitants, a place for everyone, and a place where past, present and future are played out by the star of the show – the citizen.

The Valencia of today is a model of transformation, and a tribute to the dynamic spirit of a city whose historical wealth has provided the stimulus to change it into one which is exemplary of the twenty-first century – an age of globalisation and information technology.

LIVING VALENCIA pays homage to this city: to its landscape, to its people, to its artists, to its historical monuments and to its new architectural wonders – the symbols of a warm and inviting Valencia, that embraces the Mediterranean. A city that is at once vibrant, yet friendly – monumental yet intimate. A city to be lived to the full.

The authors, Nicolas Randall and Helena Díez-Fuentes, have taken “time” as the theme of this wonderful book. The city is always the star of this fascinating portrayal and here it’s presented at different times during the day, at different periods of the year, under different types of light, always in just the right position and moment for each scene or event.

Within the pages of LIVING VALENCIA a city that grows more beautiful every day is proudly displayed. We can see a city that is enriched by its treasured Roman, Visigoth, Arab and Christian heritage and one that shows the magnificent buildings, and gothic and art-nouveau monuments that have spurred the transformation of recent years – creating a mosaic of life, an open friendly stage that has become an example of a city fully prepared to conquer the future.

Each photograph and caption in LIVING VALENCIA invites you to personally discover the city and to enjoy it at any time, because Valencia has so much to offer.

Rita Barberá Nolla
Mayoress of Valencia