There is a particular ease that settles over you in a city that has nothing to prove. You feel it before you can name it — in the unhurried pace of a midmorning coffee, in the way strangers meet your eye without calculation. Valencia is that kind of place. It does not announce its welcome or ask to be admired for it. It simply lives the way it has always lived, in warm light and easy company, and invites you to do the same.
