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“This is another Valencia”
Emigrants of the “fallero” plane reflect on the metamorphosis that Valencia has underwent along all these years.
Valencian emigrants that arrived in Valencia on the “fallero” plane have found a city quite different from the one they left years ago when they migrated to Latin America. There are some places which are just like they always remembered but most parts of the city, new to them now, will have to take place in their memories from now onwards.
María Gil changed Valencia for Argentina with less than a year old, but spent a few months in the city when she was 24. Now is the first time she arrives in Fallas. When asked about the biggest change she has seen, comes to her mind the image of the airport. “I remember there were flowers which is not the case now. But the centre is the same. Above all I remember the Cathedral”, she explains in front of the structure of the Virgin that in a few hours will start to be filled with flowers.
“This is the seventh trip I do, but it has been three years since the last one. This is not the same Valencia, it is another,” says Esmirina Alvarez. “It’s nicer, there are new constructions. It used to be more like a village, now looks more like a capital, a cosmopolitan one,” she concludes.
El Jardín del Turia is another location that always looks the same, although it has also evolved. “I did not know anything of what is now in the Turia gardens,” recalls another resident immigrant in Peru, who prefers not to say his name. He refers to the new gardens towards the City of Arts and Sciences. His memories are clearer since he left Valencia with 49 years old. “The whole city is modern. I feel it is as if it was my first time here, because the change has been brutal, sensational. Valencia has become a capital,” he said.
Source: www.lasprovincias.es
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