Jardín del Turia
Sunken riverbed park of pine groves and paths where a diverted river once flowed through the city.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jardin del Turia in Valencia starts with a question: why is there a nine-kilometer park where a river used to run. It goes back to October 14, 1957, when the Turia overflowed its banks after days of storms, flooding streets under meters of water and killing dozens of people. You'll hear about the Plan Sur, approved in 1961, and the years engineers spent digging the river an entirely new course three kilometers south of the old one. The guide follows what Valencia chose to do with the empty riverbed it was left holding.
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