Well I made good use of my 2nd day of the bus tour going on both routes twice! There is just so much to see and so information to take in.On one of the tours I sat across from two American guys from Fort Lauderdale. They sold their house in Florida and are looking to move to Spain. When I asked why the answer was to escape Trump.
We passed an old building that was described as being originally built a few hundred years ago as a women’s prison but had been closed and empty for years until recent renovations allowed it to be reopened as a primary school.
One of the Americans muttered “so, still a prison then”

Part of the medieval city wall that still remains. These towers were the North entrance to the city

Over the centuries Valencia suffered many devastating floods, the last was in 1957. So in the 1970’s they diverted the river to the south of the city and then turned the empty riverbed, that runs right through the city, into parkland with walking and cycling trails, gardens and even huge sports fields

Part of the riverbed

And still more of the riverbed

Just one of the narrow streets of the city