Astronaut Luca Parmitano captured from ISS Valencia, Spain.
Valencia is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain, and is the 3rd-most populated municipality in the country, with 825,948 inhabitants. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC under the name Valentia Edetanorum. An autonomous city in late antiquity, militarization of the place followed the onset of the threat posed by Byzantine presence to the South, that went in parallel with effective integration to the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in the late 6th century. The Port of Valencia is the 4th-busiest container port in Europe and the second busiest container port on the Mediterranean Sea. Due to its long history, Valencia has numerous celebrations and traditions, such as the Falles (or Fallas), which was declared a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest of Spain in 1965 and an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in November 2016.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
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