This week, we took a short tour of the palace of Valencia’s autonomous regional government (el Palau de la Generalitat), which is the large building adjacent to the Plaza de la Virgen (location). Construction on the palace began over 500 years ago, in 1421, when it was built as a headquarters for the representatives of [...]

It’s become a familiar sensation, stepping out in the morning onto normally bustling city streets, and finding them desolate. Walking silently past shuttered cafés and storefronts, and slowly realizing that either (a) today is yet another public holiday, or (b) an annihilating pestilence has wiped out the city’s entire populace. Figuring that it must be [...]