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The Port of Valencia has undergone
major renovation and refurbishment and is now ready
to host the 27th America’s Cup race next June.
The Port is only one of two dynamic
"motors" propelling the Valencian economy
into a major international destination and business
center.
The other is Feria Valencia, Valencia’s
emblematic and constantly evolving Trade Fair and
Exhibition Center.
2006 has been an exciting year for Feria Valencia,
as host to the World’s Families Congress as
well as successfully hosting Pope Benedict’s
visit and the International Terrorism conference,
no small feat in this day and age given the enormous
security issues such events entail.
More than 80 countries along with
125 different nationalities used and benefited from
the services of Feria Valencia, bringing in 63 million
euros, a 12.1% increase over 2005. All indicators
are pointing to continue this trend into 2007.
The recent completion of the expansion
and modernization plans have transformed Feria Valencia
into a veritable world class venue. The new Events
Center, with its avant-garde architecture is a marvel
of the latest technology. Its spacious meeting rooms
boast projection screens, lighting and sound control
centers, projectors and mobile acoustic panels,
alongside interpreter booths for six different languages
spanning two auditoriums making it one of the most
technology advanced in the world.
Valencia’s new "Palau de
les Arts" or Arts Center, come symphony hall
is rapidly becoming a reference point on the international
musical circuit. Part of the futuristic Arts and
Sciences complex, the stunning building was conceived
and designed by Valencia’s own Santiago Calatrava.
The "Palau" can hold more than 4000 people
which puts it on scale with the major opera houses
of the world and ahead of La Scala and Covent Garden
in terms of seating capacity.
An ambitious program has positioned
the "Palau" as an international celebrity
venue in terms of both quality and the variety of
its events.
A varied and eclectic menu of music:
From Beethoven to Wagner through to Puccini or Martin
i Soler al Jazz, is rapidly turning this Valencia
Arts and Cultural Center into a multicultural arts
rendezvous where Opera and jazz are side by side
and backed up by theater movies painting and art
and photography exhibitions.
A selection of famous players that
have already performed since its opening earlier
this year.: Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Plácido
Domingo, Juan Diego Flórez, Barbara Frittoli,
Olga Borodina, Matti Salminen, Waltraud Meier, Philip
Glass, Milo_ Forman...
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