Valencia (province)

Geography

The capital of the province of Valencia is the city of Valencia. Valencia Province on the map of Spain.

Province (red) in autonomous community (pink)

The highest mountains in the province of Valencia are:

• Cerro Calderón (1837 m),
• Sierra del Caroche (1126 m),
• Sierra del Benicadell (1104 m),
• Serra Calderona (1015 m),
• Sierra Martés (1085 m),
• Sierra de Utiel (1306 m),
• Sierra de Enguera (1056 m),
• Sierra de Mondúver (841 m).

The largest cities in the province of Valencia.

The city of Valencia and its suburbs are highlighted as dark.

Population and administrative divisions

Districts (mosquitoes):

• Campo de Turia
• Campo de Morvedre
• Canal de Navarres
• Coster
• Oya de Buñol
• Huerta Norte
• Huerta Oeste
• Huerta Sur
• Valencia
• Requena-Utiel
• Rincón de Ademus
• Ribera Alta (Valencia)
• Ribera Baja (Valencia)
• Safor
• Los Serranos
• Valle de Albaida
• Valle de Cofrentes
• Waldigna

Real estate market

2017:21% increase in home purchase and sale transactions

In 2017, the province of Valencia accounted for 6% of the total number of home purchase and sale transactions in Spain. Compared to the previous year, their number increased by 21%.

94% of transactions in Valencia, according to the real estate agency CBRE, are made in the secondary market. Growth in this segment has been observed since 2014, with dynamics averaging 15% annually. Almost half of residential real estate transactions (47%) took place in three municipalities: Valencia, Torrente and Paterne.

The market for new buildings in the province of Valencia, on the contrary, shows the lowest indicators since the crisis. Most of the transactions for the purchase and sale of new housing (20%) are made in the capital of the region.

In 2017, 565 new residential buildings were commissioned in the province. Experts believe that high indicators in the number of building permits issued indicate a gradual recovery in this direction. In 2017, 38% more permits were issued than a year earlier. Their total number was about 1,400.

Crime

Main article: Crime in Spain

2022: Arrest of seven members of Albanian group accused of 40 thefts across Spain

In December 2022, the Spanish Civil Guard arrested seven members of an Albanian criminal gang who are behind more than 40 thefts across Spain worth about 800,000 euros of confiscated loot.

Officers found the gang had set up a base for their operations in the town of Gandia in the eastern coastal province of Valencia, from where they carried out looting across the country.

Seven suspected criminals are involved in the theft of jewelry, cash and machinery from homes in the Spanish provinces of Salamanca, Valladolid, León, Palencia, La Rioja, Navarra and Zaragoza.

It is reported that the gang transported the stolen goods to, Albania having previously gone to the capital. Portugal Lisbon

A successful Civil Guard operation to capture criminals, codenamed Rovisa, was carried out with the support of the Polícia de Segurança Pública de Portugal, as well as the Albanian police.

Operation Rovisa began in March 2022 when several robberies were reported in the Salamanca area of northwestern Spain.

The spate of house robberies caused great social anxiety among locals in the area, and the Civil Guard suspected that those responsible for them could also be responsible for other similar robberies across the country.

A subsequent investigation found that gang members were entering and leaving Spain through the Portuguese capital Lisbon.

The Civil Guard requested support from both Portuguese and Albanian authorities, and all three forces were coordinated by the European police agency Europol.

Spain's largest prison

Main article: Picassent Prison (Valencia)

Just 20 minutes by car or public transport from the city of Valencia, in the small provincial town of Picassent, is the largest prison in all of Spain. Read more here.

Tallest tree

Eucalyptus is 41.2 meters high - for 2022, the tallest tree in the entire province of Valencia and ranks 4th in height in the Valencian Community. It grows near the Les Carolines metro station in the Benimamet subdistrict of Valencia, has a trunk with a diameter of 6.1 meters. According to experts, he is from 80 to 100 years old, and he is one of the trees protected by the Valencia City Council.

This giant is an Australian-born red or narrow-leaved eucalyptus of the myrtle family whose botanical name is Eucaliptus camaldulensis. To take a closer look at it, Parque Lineal Park must be bypassed. Its scale is such that tree specialists have to use lifting platforms and involve firefighters to produce pruning, infection treatment and other sanitation work.

History

2 BC: During the reign of Octavian Augustus, the road through the Iberian Peninsula, which received his name, is modernized

After the reign of the Roman emperor Octavian Augustus, when expansion and improvements were carried out, the Vía Exterior roads were especially in the period from 8 to 2 BC. e. After that, it was named after the emperor Augustus road.

The following archaeological sites associated with the August Road have been preserved in the province of Valencia:

• Restos de domus en C/ Valencia de Sagunt;
• restos del Circo Romano y Mausoleo de Sagunt;
• the ruins of the Roman city of Valentia (LʼAlmoina, the center of Valencia);
• Alteret en Albalat de la Ribera;
• Ninfeo de la calle Sariers de Xàtiva;
• Ad Statuas en Moixent.

5th century BC: Edeta is the capital of Edetania

In the 5th century BC, on the site of the modern archaeological complex Tosal de San Miguel near Lyriy, Edeta arises - the capital of Edetania.

2 thousand BC: The first settlement in the territory of Lyria

The earliest finds near the border of the modern city of Lyria in the archaeological complex Tosal de San Miguel are associated with the settlement of 2 thousand BC during the Bronze Age. The high ground made it possible to control the vast plain around.

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