Revista Maratón Valencia 2019

123 GUÍA TURÍSTICA � TOURIST GUIDE 365 días, 24 horas • Welcome to an open land, full of light, a modern, Euro- pean city, adapted to the present time, but that conserves its roots and its history.We are Mediterranean, and that means that we love creativity, that we are hard-working and enterprising above everything, but that we have a spirit that pushes us to live life to the fullest. Valencia expresses verywell the combination of an open, creative, and hard-working city, which adds up to a day to day in which we enjoy our leisure, our nature, the sun and our festive culture. One can perceive the contrast between areas such as our old quarter, with emblematic constructions such as the Cathedral, the Lonja, the Mercado Central (Central Market) or the Estación del Norte (North Train Station) and the modernity of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences) or the Marina, symbol of the new Valencia. Our cultural spirit invades the streets when we celebrate our fiestas, such as the Fallas, but also when we want to express ourselves, such as with the cultural renaissance in which we live and with sculptures such as 'Points of view' (Tony Cragg) or 'La Pamela' (Manolo Valdés) and exhibitions such as that of Jaume Plensa which we have just hosted, all of them brought to you by the Hortensia Herrero Foundation. We invite you to immerse yourself in that Mediterranean spirit, in that open, hard-working and balanced mentality that has done us so much good.We invite you to the best land in the world.