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Article: Petit Palace Germanias Valencia ; 24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2006
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My pulse quickened as we turned off a bustling Valencian
thoroughfare to find our hotel in a rather run-down neighbourhood,
next to the "Chicken Palace" and opposite the Valencia Hell's Angels
Club. Thankfully, the Petit Palace Germanias loomed audaciously
above its paint-peeling neighbours in a restored fin-de-siecle
crimson-hued building. This is just the sort of place that typifies
Valencia's urban renaissance. Venerable old buildings have been
regenerated and the warren-like streets of the atmospheric old town
are now inhabited by trendy bars, boutiques and restaurants, while
the City of Arts and Sciences on the drained riverbed of the Turia
is defined by eye-popping modern ...
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