Albufera of Valencia
The Albufera of Valencia, or Parc Natural de l’Albufera, is a freshwater lagoon and protected wetland just about 10 kilometres south of Valencia, spread across 21,120 hectares. Its name comes from the Arabic al-Buḥayra, meaning “the lake,” and the Romans knew it as Nacarum Stagnum, while Arabic poems called it the “Mirror of the Sun.” The lagoon is unusually shallow, with an average depth of about 1 metre, which has shaped everything here from birdlife to the rice fields around it. For centuries, this landscape has been tied to fishing, agriculture, and traditional rice cultivation, and that connection deepened under Moorish influence, when advanced irrigation techniques transformed the region. …
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