Valencia's Medieval Center

From MSNBC.com:

Valencia is a trading city. Founded by the Greeks hundreds of years before Christ, it later served as Rome’s gateway to its Iberian provinces. In the Middle Ages it flourished, first as a Moorish capital (and briefly as El Cid’s citadel), then as a center of the silk trade. Indeed, it was medieval Spain’s most vibrant port, trading silk, oranges, wine and almonds throughout the Mediterranean and serving as a home port for Spain’s overseas kingdoms in southern Italy. Today Valencia blends a cosmopolitan Mediterranean flavor with a distinctly modern Spanish spirit.

Read more about this wonderful (and lesser known) medieval city in Spain. Ole!