Valencia is located on the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea, on the River Turia, and is considered the birthplace of paella, one of the most famous dishes of Spanish cuisine. Valencia is also called the orange city. Valencia is Spain's third economic engine, after Madrid and Barcelona.

Valencia was founded in 138 BC. founded under the name of Valentia Edetanorum by the Roman leader Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus. In 75 B.C. the city was destroyed by the battle between Pompey and Quintus Sertorius. The city was then partly restored, around 50 AD. the city got its own Roman circus, a forum and the famous towers “Torres de Serranos”. In the 4th century, after the persecution and torture of Vincent of Zaragoza by the Roman Emperor Diocletian, the city's first Catholic society emerged and the transformation of Roman temples into Christian places of worship began. This period of religious change coincides with the arrival of the Germanic Visigoths. Subsequently, the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by the Byzantines, they were expelled from the country in 625 and virtually no documentation has been found about Valencia from that period and the following centuries.

Valencia is located on the east coast of Spain, on the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea. Location of Valencia Distances to other cities: Alicante: 179 kilometers Almeria: 443 kilometers Barcelona: 362 kilometers Bilbao: 747 kilometers Castellón de la Plana: 76 kilometers Madrid: 356 kilometers Málaga: 622 kilometers Murcia: 232 kilometers Seville: 747 kilometers Zaragoza: 326 kilometers