This should have been my first post...Valencia!

Valencia is the third largest city in Spain.

Here's one of the landmark of Valencia; the Miquelet, or Miguelete. It is the cathedral belltower.

I visited a couple of museums. One of these was the ceramic museum. Here's its main entrance.

The ceramic museum has lots of items on display. Things from ancient to modern times.

The highlight of the museum is a typical Valencia kitchen made entirely with tiles.

There is also a fully furnished apartment inside of the ceramic museum.

Another museum we visited was the fine arts museum.It is housed inside the building with a blue dome you see in this pic. The collection of pictures here it is really large.

Valencia has a very long park that surrounds the old center. It was built in the old bed of the river Turia. They decided to divert it south of the city long ago the last time it flooded. This park; its name is Jardines del Tùria is crossed by 19 bridges. Old and modern.

El mercado central. The main covered market in Valencia has around 1000 stalls. It is a food market.

There are lots of fruits and vegetables stalls inside the market.

Plaza Redonda (= round square). It is really round! In fact the buildings here are join together and each one is curved. So that the whole is round.

We stayed at a large four star in Alboraya. Hotel Olympia and Events spa. Alboraya is a village some km from Valencia.

A place not to miss in Alboraya is horchateria Daniel. We went there several times to eat their homemade pastries.