Spain, Mar 2023

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March 5, 2023
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Day 1
Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 12:00 PM
☁️ 15 °C
Altitude: 51 m
Spain The Medieval Tower 39.43652, -0.46339739°26’11” N 0°27’48” W
Arrival at Valencia, staying in Torrent
March 5, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Arrival in Valencia. I will stay with Betty and Erwin, my relatives, in Torrent, a city close to Valencia, connected via metro. Next to my Spanish classes I took, both of them acted as my private conversation teachers, being extremely patient with me and the best hosts you could imagine! Erwin & Betty: GRACIAS!!!

Llegada a València. Me quedaré con Betty y Erwin, mis familiares, en Torrent, una ciudad cercana a Valencia, conectada por metro. ¡Además de mis clases de español que tomé, ambos actuaron como mis profesores de conversación privados, siendo extremadamente pacientes conmigo y los mejores anfitriones que puedas imaginar! Erwin y Betty: ¡¡¡GRACIAS!!! (and thanks to google translate! 🤣)Read more
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Day 2
Monday, March 6, 2023 at 2:55 PM
⛅ 19 °C
Altitude: 31 m
Spain Llotja de la Seda 39.474406, -0.37826439°28’28” N 0°22’42” W
Valencia, Impressions I
March 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
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Day 2
Monday, March 6, 2023 at 6:15 PM
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 28 m
Spain Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe 39.455841, -0.35167239°27’21” N 0°21’6” W
Valencia, Ciudad de las Artes… I
March 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
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Day 2
Monday, March 6, 2023 at 7:24 PM
🌙 16 °C
Altitude: 28 m
Spain Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe 39.455845, -0.35166139°27’21” N 0°21’6” W
Valencia, Fallas: Ninots
March 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Fallas: Exposición del Ninot 2023

Vom 4. Februar bis zum 15. März kann man die Ninot-Kandidaten, die vor dem Feuer gerettet werden sollen, in der Ninot-Ausstellung sehen. Es ist ein Vorgeschmack auf die Fallas, die in den Straßen und auf den Plätzen Valencias aufgestellt werden und vom 16. März bis zu ihrer Verbrennung am Abend des 19. März besucht werden können. Eine Figur der Ninots der Ausstellung wird durch eine Volksabstimmung begnadigt. Im Museo Fallero können die begnadigten Ninots aller Ausgaben der Fallas seit 1934 besichtigt werden.Read more
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Day 3
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 2:02 PM
🌬 20 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Escalante, Teatro Infantil 39.476884, -0.37797539°28’37” N 0°22’41” W
Valencia, Street Art & Murals I
March 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
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Day 3
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:44 PM
⛅ 20 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Torres de Serranos 39.479598, -0.37724839°28’47” N 0°22’38” W
Valencia, Los Chicos!
March 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Sarah & Françoise, Andreas & Norbertito - so glad that we spent those 2 weeks together! Thanks for all those laughters and stupid talks! 🤪
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Day 4
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 12:07 PM
🌬 22 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Torres de Serranos 39.479626, -0.37725239°28’47” N 0°22’38” W
Valencia, Taronja Language School
March 8, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
When you are simply lucky with the chosen language school (thanks, Nabila, for the recommendation) and the people you meet there! Great teachers and at least for 2/3 of my weeks colleagues around my age. And Paula, Salva, Pablo, Néstor, Antonio have been the best teachers you can imagine. It was a lot of fun! 😎Read more
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Day 6
Friday, March 10, 2023
⛅ 25 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Spain Malvarrosa Beach 39.473919, -0.32320539°28’26” N 0°19’24” W
Valencia, Playa Malva-Rosa
March 10, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Not very often, but a few times we made it to the beach.
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Day 7
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 10:48 AM
☀️ 21 °C
Altitude: 11 m
Spain El Palmar 39.312897, -0.31762139°18’46” N 0°19’3” W
València, Albufera I
March 11, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Let’s get a bike to Parc Natural de l'Albufera
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Day 8
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 1:21 PM
☀️ 28 °C
Altitude: 19 m
Spain Micalet 39.475422, -0.37561839°28’32” N 0°22’32” W
Valencia, Fallas (in the making)
March 12, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Several days before the final days of the Fallas (March 15-19) the actual fallas are set up and pieces put together to incredible statues. Streets are decorated and named by the corresponding falla groups. People walk through the town day and night to see those pieces of art growing (in the city of Valencia more of 700, you can’t see them all).

Einige Tage vor dem Finale der Fallas (15. bis 19. März) werden die eigentlichen Fallas-Skulpturen aufgestellt und die Teile zu unglaublichen Statuen zusammengesetzt. Straßen werden von den entsprechenden Falla-Vereinen geschmückt und beleuchtet. Menschen gehen Tag und Nacht durch die Stadt, um diese Kunstwerke wachsen zu sehen (in der Stadt Valencia hibt es mehr als 700 der grossen Fallas, man kann sie eh nicht alle sehen).Read more
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Day 8
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:39 PM
☀️ 28 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Santos Juanes 39.474157, -0.3787439°28’27” N 0°22’43” W
Valencia, Paella
March 12, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Wenn Paella, dann hier! Die original valencianische Paella ist mit Huhn und Kaninchen (pollo & conejo).
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Day 10
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 6:33 PM
☁️ 20 °C
Altitude: 27 m
Spain Plaza de la Verge 39.477191, -0.37554439°28’38” N 0°22’32” W
Valencia, Agua de Valencia
March 14, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Café de las Horas
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Day 11
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 1:58 PM
☀️ 20 °C
Altitude: 19 m
Spain Micalet 39.475483, -0.37559639°28’32” N 0°22’32” W
Valencia, Mascletà
March 15, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
This Macletà at 14:00 on March 15 marks the official start of the Fallas celebrations. Watch the videos with sound on!!
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Day 11
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 4:28 PM
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain El Carmen 39.477779, -0.38092839°28’40” N 0°22’51” W
Fallas, Figures 1
March 15, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
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Day 11
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 4:42 PM
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Spain Plaza de Toros de Valencia 39.466663, -0.37612239°27’60” N 0°22’34” W
Valencia, Corrida de Toros
March 15, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
By coincidence me and a friend passed by the Plaza de Toros when a corrida was going to start. Spontaneously we decided to have a look. The excitement turned fast into sorrow. A Spanish guy explained the rules and audience’s reactions to us. Although you might understand how this was entertaining in former times, we could just feel sorrow for those bulls who got stressed and punished before they finally died. So it was definitively the first and last bull fight for us.Read more
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Day 11
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 9:39 PM
🌙 14 °C
Altitude: 30 m
Spain Eixample 39.461914, -0.37125139°27’43” N 0°22’17” W
Valencia, Fallas, Figures 2
March 15, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
The favourites
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Day 12
Thursday, March 16, 2023
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain El Carmen 39.477749, -0.38077139°28’40” N 0°22’51” W
Valencia, Street Art & Murals II
March 16, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
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Day 14
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 11:26 AM
☁️ 19 °C
Altitude: 25 m
Spain Plaza de la Verge 39.476334, -0.37531539°28’35” N 0°22’31” W
Valencia, Fallas, Flower Donation
March 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Das Blumenopfer ist der emotionalste Akt für Falleros und der aufregendste für die Valencianer. Alle Festkomissionen oder Fallas bringen der Virgen de los Desamparados, der Schutzpatronin der Stadt, Blumen dar. Auf der Plaza de la Virgen befindet sich eine riesige Reproduktion der Schutzpatronin, die mit einem bunten Mantel mit den Blumen geschmückt ist, welche die Falleros ihr anbieten. Das Ergebnis ist … einfach dufte!!

Without a doubt, the offering is the most emotional act for falleros and the most exciting for Valencians. All the commissions or fallas make an offering of flowers to the Virgen de los Desamparados, patron saint of the city. In the Plaza de la Virgen there is an immense reproduction of the patron saint, which is adorned with a colourful mantle with the flowers that the falleros offer her. The result is wonderful!Read more
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Day 14
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 12:43 PM
☁️ 20 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Jardí del Túria 39.478026, -0.40728239°28’41” N 0°24’26” W
Bioparc Valencia I
March 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
One of the best zoos I have been to.

Nicht viel Zäune, stattdessen Abstand und Glaswände.
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Day 14
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 2:44 PM
⛅ 23 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Bioparc Valencia 39.477973, -0.40727239°28’41” N 0°24’26” W
Bioparc Valencia II
March 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
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Day 14
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 9:01 PM
🌙 15 °C
Altitude: 19 m
Spain Micalet 39.475452, -0.37557739°28’32” N 0°22’32” W
Valencia, Fallas, Fallera
March 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Jeder Verein stellt auch eine Fallera, eine Valencianerin in traditioneller Tracht; unter allen Frauen (Mädchen) wird dann die Fallera Mayor (Fallera Infantil) gewählt, die das Fest dann eine Woche lang offiziell repräsentiert. Die traditionellen Kleider sind extrem aufwändig, teuer und schwer - jedes ein Kunstwerk für sich! Die Herren der Schöpfung sind aber auch nicht unkreativ.

Each Fallas group also provides a fallera, a Valencian woman in traditional costume; the Fallera Mayor (Fallera Infantil) is chosen from among all the women (girls), who then officially represents the falla during the festival. The traditional dresses are extremely complex, expensive and heavy - each a work of art in itself! But the gentlemen are not uncreative either.Read more
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Day 14
Saturday, March 18, 2023
☁️ 23 °C
Altitude: 24 m
Spain Pont del Mar 39.46896, -0.36423139°28’8” N 0°21’51” W
Valencia, Fallas, Fireworks
March 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
During the last days of the fallas there were fireworks each night, either at midnight or 1am. Streets were too full to move on sometimes. 🤪
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Day 15
Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 12:41 PM
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 19 m
Spain Kathedrale von Valencia 39.475449, -0.37553439°28’32” N 0°22’32” W
Valencia, Fallas, Figures 3
March 19, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
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Day 15
Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 7:27 PM
🌙 16 °C
Altitude: 30 m
Spain Glorieta 39.470618, -0.37007939°28’14” N 0°22’12” W
Valencia, Fallas, Fire Parade
March 19, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Cabalgata del Fuego, Calle de Colón
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Day 15
Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 10:06 PM
🌙 14 °C
Altitude: 30 m
Spain Plaça de l'Ajuntament 39.470699, -0.37654639°28’15” N 0°22’36” W
Valencia, Fallas, Cremà
March 19, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Am letzten Tag werden in festgelegter Reihenfolge erst die Fallas Infantil verbrannt, danach die Fallas. Als letztes wird die grosse Falla am Plaza del Ayuntamiento den Flammen übergeben. Da die Fallas an sich teil schon 25m hoch, erreichen die ersten Flammen gerne mal Hochhaushöhe. Ohne die Bomberos, die hauptberuflichen Feuerwehrleute, geht da nichts.

On the last day, the Fallas Infantil are burned first, followed by the Fallas, in a set order. Finally, the great Falla at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento is burned. Since the fallas themselves are already 25m high, the first flames often reach the height of a skyscraper. Nothing works without the Bomberos, the full-time firefighters.Read more
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