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February 1st, 2012 | 
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Whether visiting the city for sunbathing or discovering to do in Valencia, you will find plenty of ways to spend your time during your trip Valencia.
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The city hosts Las Fallas in mid-March, a week of solemn processions, fireworks and a finale of the fires, is the favorite in the best festivals in Europe, and if you crave a taste of old Spain , experts recommend that you start your tour of Valencia in the city center in the Plaza de la Reina and visit the Cathedral of Valencia.
Another site visit is the Plaza de Toros, a place that used to host bullfights. To learn more about the history of the sport, visit the Bullfighting Museum of Valencia, located adjacent to the bullring.
Places of interest are grouped around the Plaza de la Reina and Plaza del Mercado. Most museums, gardens and monuments are notable east along the Turia riverbed.
In the summer (and for the rest of the year, depending on demand) the regional tourist office also organizes visits to Valencia Albufera Natural Park. Walk around the harbor before continuing south to the lagoon itself, where you can visit a traditional hut (thatched cottage), and finish in the Devesa Gardens, where you can rent a boat to explore the rice fields .
Museums
Most museums are Valencia along the old Turia river gardens north of downtown. Perhaps the most prominent space in the district is the City of Arts and Sciences and the many museums housed inside. Recent visitors to visit the planetarium suggest multiple, aquarium and IMAX theater. Read the rest of this entry »
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The secretary general of Tourism and Domestic Trade, Joan Mesquite, today presented the award for Best Tourist Destination of quality, awarded to the city of San Sebastian, the mayor of the same, Odon Eliza. The award recognizes the commitment of the city of San Sebastian with the Quality System in Tourism Destination (SICTED) for the competitiveness of enterprises.
The award recognizes the efforts of the municipality to promote this quality system, from the public-private coordination, from the training of entrepreneurs in terms of quality and collaboration of the Basque Government and Basque tourism agency Basque tour.
Quality is a constant in the Basque country and the fate of San Sebastian in particular, being the first municipality to join the SICTED. The city of San Sebastian has been, therefore, a benchmark for all other destinations Basques, who have joined the Quality System, sponsored by the General Secretariat of Tourism, in 2010.
Thus, the Basque Country now has 17 destinations renowned for their quality, which makes it the region with more destinations SICTED after the agreement signed in October 2009 in quality between the General Secretariat of Tourism and Commerce Interior and the Basque Government.
Although Miami is still one of the most attractive tourist cities to Latin Americans, the city faces a number of problems and not popular in the United States itself.
Forbes Magazine ranked Miami as the second city “miserable” in the country, exceeded only by Stockton, Calif., with a smaller population of nearly 300 000 inhabitants.
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the poor ranking of Miami is a direct byproduct of the economic crisis, says the Voice of America. In addition, the reason that she jumped from ninth place so little encouraging list to number two, lies in the housing, the collapse in the value of houses and condominiums, said the Voice of America.
However, the magazine also took other considerations including climate, the performance of sports teams, the unemployment rate, taxes and time spent on motorways to get to work and the crime rate.
And while Miami has an enviable climate, housing prices fell 50% in three years, while unemployment is 12% and was the largest city with more foreclosures in 2010
Another negative point that stands out is the high corruption Forbes “with 404 public officials convicted of crimes this decade in South Florida.”
However, Miami’s appeal to tourists does not decay and the rate of hotel occupancy rose nearly 8% last year.
Also filled cruise ports in the last three months of the year with 1,140,000 passengers. While the internment airport had a record number of passengers in 2010 to about 35,700,000 people.