Preview of Constantinople’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Valencia” Entry: “I’m getting very lazing in updating this.. its party because its feels a bit indulgent telling everyone once a week or so about all the fun things ive been doing and partly because its very hard to put into words exactly how much fun and the amazing people ive met and places ive been to. I said good bye to kath and kate and hopped on a bus to Cordoba.. which is a small city once ruled by the moors and then re-captured by the spanish. The outskirts of the city are not really so nice – lots of low rise apartment buildings, but the centre of the town, the “old town” is really interesting… typical eurpean style with lots of winding streets the are fun to get lost in. The main sight in Cordoba is the cathedral, which is a huge mosque build around 900 years ago with a cathedral built in the centre. Its hard to describe but really interesting seeing the two styles and religions mixed together (www.kleekaemper.com I have included some pictures from while I was in Morocco (you may have noticed) and will gradually try and put more on as I go… I just dont carry the CDs and cables with me when I walk around! Theres also a nice river on the southern side of the city with an old roman bride spanning it. I met an american student and a guy from …
16 participantes llegados de toda España (de entre 15 y 22 años) se midieron en una final muy disputada, en la que la nota predominante fue el alto nivel mostrado desde las primeras rondas, con trucos muy técnicos y puesta en escena llamativa y efectista. Los favoritos, Gómez, Vity, Nen, César o Broly, primeros clasificados en alguna de las cuatro semifinales disputadas en Salamanca, Girona, Cádiz y Tenerife, se fueron deshaciendo de sus rivales en las primeras eliminatorias. Tan sólo Borja Rojas, Borja, tinerfeño de 16 años, consiguió colarse entre el grupo de cabeza hasta caer en semifinales. En estas rondas se vivieron duelos muy reñidos, como el de Nen y Gómez, que requirió de una réplica para conocer al ganador. Vity y Borja se clasificaron finalmente tercero y cuarto. En la final, Manel y Gómez tuvieron que desplegar su mejor repertorio de trucos, en una ronda muy igualada que también exigió réplica. Manel clavó su actuación, pero la de Gómez, con combinaciones muy rápidas de maniobras de suelo y cabeza, le dio la victoria final.
Preview of Marziadcc’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Tour of valencia” Entry: “Valencia… well i’ve been planning to come to Spain since middle school and after many years finally here i was.. I started sight seeing from the most moden part of the city with the City of the Arts and the Sciences. wonderful architecture and particular curves hits the eye at the first sight… with the hemisferic, museum of the sciences, the palaces of the arts and oceanografico it sure has many things to say. From the Plaza de Toros where my house was, the first sight that greets the eye is the impressive Bullring. Build in the mid 19th century it sure was a reminder of the Colosseum. the station is a treasure itself. Most of the deco inside were all Valencian modernist with the facade with few gothic elements. walking down the Av. del Marques de Sotelo one speedily finds himself to the Square of Ayuntamento. The buildings are breathtaking..classic lines of the newly renovated facades. on the left there’s the City hall, Ayuntamento, sculputres of the Benlliure, with a clear clock tower. not only is it eye catching but the building next to it, marked by the mark of the Venice Lion makes it a perfect monument to quite a mixture of architecture style through the plaza. in the plaza in fact other beautiful buildins are like the …
A young man who was beaten by the bull “Mouse” in an enclosure held at the bullring at Xativa died shortly afterwards in hospital for a cardiac arrest Alzira, the bull, livestock Gregorio de Jesus, is one of the best known and feared for their participation in recent years in bullfights theComunidad.A the victim, a young man about 30 years local resident Algemesi, he tried to remove the square several times because of their apparent state drunk, but one of hisreinstatement to the arena was finally hit by the bull.
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Preview of Tavini’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain and Canary Islands Entry Title: “Valencia” Entry: “After spending a long time in Southern Spain, coming to Valencia feels like going to a different country. We had to take a night train from Granada which left halfway through to European championship final game, when Spain beat Germany to take the cup, so unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?), we missed out on the ensuing mayhem which were the celebrations in the streets of all Spanish towns. We woke up in a pretty modern city where the look of the place is different from southern Spain, the language spoken is differen (Catalan), and people even act differently: it really is hard to believe you´re in the same country. We got here very early in the morning, and had to check our bags in the rain station lockers, because the grumpy hostel manager refused to let us in on the premise that we had not gotten to the hostel within its opening hours. So we did our sight-seeing between 6am and about 3pm and finally checked into the hostel, which had an excellent location and clean bedrooms. Unfortunately, we suspect the manager/owner to be related to the fascist dictator Franco, because he had plastered signs everywhere about such rules he had concocted such as no food or drinks in the rooms, no walking around barefoot, no loud …
? facebook.com ? twitter.com ? OnlineChessLessons.net “Kasparov Vs Karpov Rapid Match 2009 Valencia, Spain” – Karpov opens with his normal d4 and Kasparov responds with the sharp Grunfeld Defense. Karpov attempts to avoid excess complications in the opening by fianchettoing his kingside bishop, although black is able to quickly create counterplay with 7. …c5 and 8. …e6. An unusual knight maneuver (10. Nec3!?) by Karpov achieves solid control of the center. Kasparov plays actively with 13. …Bd4!? and Karpov is forced to create a mass of complications beginning with 14. a5!? Black had achieved a solid position with dynamic counterplay, however in time-trouble Kasparov dropped a pawn with 25. …Qf6? (better was 25. …Qa6). Kasparov had one more chance to salvage the game, however he blundered in severe time-trouble 32. …Bc1 33. …Nd3+ and 34. …Bc2 – allowing white to easily promote his past d-pawn. PGN: [Event "Kasparov Vs Karpov Rapid Match 2009"] [Site "Valencia, Spain"] [Date "2009.09.23"] [White "Anatoly Karpov"] [Black "*Garry Kasparov"] [Result "1-0"] [Opening "Neo-Grunfeld, 5.cd, main line"] [ECO "D72"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Ne2 c5 8. d5 e6 9. OO OO 10. Nec3 Na6 11. a4 exd5 12. exd5 Nb4 13. Be3 Bd4 14. a5 Bxe3 15. axb6 Bd4 16. bxa7 Bf5 17. Na3 Rxa7 18. Ncb5 Rxa3 19. Rxa3 Bxb2 20. Re3 Qb6 21. Qe2 Bg7 22. Rd1 Bd7 23. Na3 Bd4 24. Re7 Ba4 25. Rc1 Qf6 26. Rxb7 Bb2 27. Rxc5 Bxa3 28. h4 Nd3 29. Ra5 Nc5 30. Rba7 Qd4 …
Preview of Jeffanddana’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain, Spain Entry Title: “Valencia on foot” Entry: “Today we spent the day exploring the old town of Valencia. We started off by heading to the Mercado, which is the market. I enjoyed this market much more than the one in Barcelona. It was much roomier and everything was open. We picked up a baguette for breakfast and had an espresso at one of the market stalls. Across from the market, we went to the La Lonja de la Sedi which was a silk exchange house. Next, we had to take care of a little bit of business. We walked over to the bus station and picked up our tickets to Madrid for tomorrow. The station was easy to find again and buying the tickets was a breeze. We then wandered to the one of the old gates of the city. It was impressive. It would have been amazing to see the wall in all of its glory. Then we continued through a couple plazas and ended up at the Cathedral which houses the Holy Grail, which is the cup used in the Last Supper. For those who think that this can’t be true – I Googled it and all historians agree that this is it. Pretty neat. After touring the church, we headed to another plaza for a drink and a rest and then continued on for lunch, which was again huge. A siesta was much needed after eating. For dinner, we wandered the streets and settled upon a cute …
Preview of Sharm’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Valencia” Entry: “We arrived after a five hour drive from Barcelona in Valencia, easily finding tourist information to once again get directions to out hostel. We stopped for a quick lunch consisting of packed bread and jam, given our tight Spanish budgets! We found Homebackpackers in what can be described as as the dodgey area of town and became a little concerned when the hostel staff told us that that if we encountered strange homeless men we should just give them 50 cents for our own peace of mind…not such a great start! We settled into our 14 bed dorm (slightly difficult to deal with at this stage in the trip) and discovered our pleasant unisex bathrooms shared between the whole floor. On the upside the hostel had a massive kitchen and roof terrace that kept us going through the next four days. On our first full day we decided to cover the sight seeing, so ventured into town and came across some cute markets and then headed onto Plaza Reine where we found the main Cathedral, the home of the Holy Grail. Here we spent our first Euro on sight seeing in Spain. After a tour through the Cathedral we entered the chapel of the Holy Grail (the chalise believed to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper.) Given it was only mid afternoon and sight seeing was …
Going way back in time it seems that the first ever known building to be constructed in this Castellón de la Plana area was in fact the famous Moorish castle of Fadrell situated near the Alquerías de La Plana.
Some time later the real town was officially founded in the year of 1251 and this was after the historical conquest of the Moorish Kingdom of Valencia that was done by King James I of Aragon at an earlier date in 1233.
King James I in fact then granted a royal permission to actually move the new town down from the mountain and on to the plain on the date of September 8 in 1251 Historically it now seems that tradition claims that this move was in fact completed by those that undertook this enormous task on the third Sunday of Lent in 1252.
Right throughout the Middle Ages this Castellón de la Plana city was well protected by moats around defensive walls and towers and later a new church was built which later become the city’s cathedral.
Later on in the 17th century the town became one of the very last great strongholds in the Revolta de les Germanies or “revolt of the local guilds”. And the town also was supportive of the Archduke Charles of Austria in the historical War of the Spanish Succession which ran from1701 to 1714. The city however was then taken by the troops and supporters of Philip d'Anjou.
More recently in the 19th century all of the city’s walls were taken down as it slowly began to expand beyond them and this a process which was interrupted only by the War of Independence against Napoleon which occurred from 1804 until 1814 and then again later by the Carlist Wars from 1833 up to 1863.
At the start of these wars in 1833 was the year that Castellón de la Plana became the new capital of the newly constituted province area.
Even more recently in the second half of the 19th century the city of Castellón de la Plana began to expand again even more. And this time it was marked by the arrival of a railway into the city and also included the enlargement of the city’s port area as well as the construction of some important representative buildings such as the Provincial Hospital and a Casino and the city’s Theater. Many parks were also developed at this time.
Very recently just a few years ago in 1991 a new university in Castellón de la Plana, named Jaume I University, was created and built on a new modern campus location. Today the local economy of the area is mainly based on industry and craft work.
