[PapayaTapper]

^Yeah...not much happened in the last 2100 years...yeesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Valencia


Excerpt

Quote:

The history of Valencia, one of the oldest cities in Spain, begins over 2100 years ago with its founding as a Roman colony under the name "Valentia Edetanorum" on the site of a former Iberian town,[1] by the river Turia in the province of Edetania. About two thousand Roman colonists were settled in Valentia in 138 BC during the rule of consul Decimus Junius Brutus Galaico. The Roman historian Florus says that Brutus transferred the soldiers who had fought under him to that province. Valentia was a typical Roman city in its conception, as it was located in a strategic location near the sea on a river island crossed by the Via Augusta, the imperial road that connected the province to Rome, the capital of the empire.[4] The centre of the city was located in the present-day neighbourhood of the Plaza de la Virgen. Here was the forum and the crossing of the Cardo Maximus and the Decumanus Maximus,[5][6] which remain the two main axes of the city in modern times. The Cardo corresponds to the existing Calle de Salvador, Almoina,[7] and the Decumanus corresponds to Calle de los Caballeros.

Pompey razed Valentia to the ground in 75 BC to punish it for its loyalty to Sertorius.[8][9] It was rebuilt about fifty years later with large infrastructure projects, and by the mid-1st century, was experiencing rapid urban growth. Pomponius Mela called it one of the principal cities of the Tarraconensis province. Valentia suffered a new period of decline in the 3rd century, but an early Christian community arose there during the latter years of the Roman Empire, in the 4th century.

I spent around 4 1/2 months there last year and really enjoyed it and the surrounding areas quite a bit (Im still considering buying property there). As a native Spanish speaker (with a Cuban accent ) I got more social play than non native speaker likely would. Pretty much everyone under 50 yo speaks English though so Spanish isn't mandatory

The notion that Spanish girls are primarily accessible via social circle...you definitely have that correct.

There is a bar that on Wednesday nights hosts a meetup where the local Spanish girls come to practice speaking English ...but Im not posting it publicly...too many lurkers

EDIT

(10-03-2018 01:03 PM)the-dream Wrote:  

Would Valencia be a stupid place to go to learn Spanish as maybe that is not their main language?

They all speak Spanish. The Catalan isnt as hardcore there as in Barcelona