Valencia (esp)

Valencia

Valencia ranks 168th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Palermo, Chennai, and Damascus. Memorable people born in Valencia include Pope Alexander VI, Saint Lawrence, and Jusepe de Ribera. Memorable people who died in Valencia include El Cid, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and Vincent of Saragossa. Valencia has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many soccer players and religious figures. Valencia is located in Spain.

Valencia is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023). It is the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million, constituting one of the major urban areas on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula at the Gulf of Valencia, north of the Albufera lagoon. Read more on Wikipedia