Very good, but 'epicentre' is not another word for 'centre. Learn the difference and stop being a poseur.

Excellent mapping! I found myself on The Pithay under The Galleries the other day and thought - “hello, this was the river Frome”!

As a young kid aged between 7 and 10, a friend and I, who both lived in Winford, would play around this aqueduct and would even walk the entire length, often with the farmer who owned the land calling up to us to get down. I had another friend who even rode a bicycle a few feet. Needless to say, it was terrifying but very exciting. One slip would have you fall to your death. Crazy really.

yeah it is man

I wonder if St May Redcliffe have any records that mention St Catherine's hospital or a windmill? It's been around for quite a while!

Just wait till the current Government get their by pass of local planning committees going, we can expect more of this sort of nonsense needs for more housing or not.

Come on - where are you? I'm waiting for the next instalment!

The mediocrity of so many local politicians who failed to control the juggernaut of nonsense coming out of the Council House just beggared belief. Throw in the influence of the Merchant Venturers and Freemasons, plus the battle between the city and the rural areas around it, and it's a recipe for disaster. Wrong turns (sic) taken on so many levels. This madness afflicted too many other Uk cities as well. It was only the Oil Crisis in the 70's and a backlash from locals that stopped even worse things happening. Bristol council ripped up tram lines, Beeching ripped out train lines and swathes of east and south bristol lost transport options that had previously worked. The guilty men are named in a book by James Belsey. Walker and Draper are a start.

At some stage it might be worth revisiting Valencia now after their recent catastrophic floods.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Spanish_floods

"No one would think of redirecting the Danube" The Viennese did

PLEASE keep up you “ ramblings” Haven’t seen you for a while and I picked this up on a search which is one I missed first time round.

Thank you for the wonderful history of the Turia River. I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation, especially in light of the recent floods.

IT'S ALL GONE TODAY...

It moved back.

Now what are they going to do?

Here in Athens things are very similar. We've turned what used to be a swamp into part of the city, due to diverting the flow of our 2 rivers Kifisos and Ilissos and they stopped flooding the swamp. Now Athens is going to have many problems if something like what happened there happens here...

Excellent work; should be shown in every school. As a landscape Architect, we are of course strong advocates of green spaces with trees but the madness of replacing nature with roads must be exposed.

Whatever humans try water and gravity will decide to find her own way If we have know before what we know today in geologie meterologie hydrographie etc or submarine earthquake we will have set the majority of citie in the world more far away of fresh or salt water It willbe less practical but 10 time's more secure

You have pretty good timing. You should have ridden a bike to get around faster. If you had you would have seen the river park above the new channel WAS actually quite nice. It has been totally washed away in the recent flood. Riding down river it was a giant shock to come out of a pretty park along a small stream and end up in the giant concrete channel of the nueva cauce before you can connect to the former riverbed park. . The Southern Plan did not cause the flooding to the south. As stated by others the "Barranco de Poyo" and the Magro river overflowed. This danger was known and plans had been made for years to address the issue but political will and money was not there. Now Billions will be paid and too many lives lost for this political failure. This coastal area of Valencia Province is mostly alluvial plain. Fertile land for farming and a natural place to grow rice. Plaza de La Virgin where the Roman Forum was is a high point. It does not seem so as the city is so flat. Hence not flooded in the 57 flood The Roman City was an island with the river splitting south of it. There is still a boat street, Calle de Las Barcas, in the center of the old town far from the Turia river bed. The expansion of the small towns South of the city, and the large warehouse and big box shopping areas are in the alluvial plain that lead to or were part of the historical area of the Albufera a large coastal Lagoon. This should never have been allowed. Nasa maps of the flood show the Albufera actually retake its historical size and shape. While ugly the New Causeway did save the city and has done so before. A flood the size of the 24 flood or the 57 would have caused incredible damage to the city without it. In 57 most of the city area of today was fields that could absorb some of the water.

Something tells me this aged like milk...

Living here in Valencia this project is an ecological disaster to say the least ... The entire riverbed has turned into a area where millions of mosquitos can breed every summer

Water has, and always will, fall from the sky and rise from springs. All that has changed is the places it can run back into the ground ( concreting over land), and the speed it runs away ( man made culverts, roads and concreting over land) and the amount of transpiration to suck it from the earth back into the atmosphere ( chopping down trees to concrete over land). If only we could work out the common factor here?

Cities are built on rivers because floating on water was easier than hacking through trees and vegetation to get from A to B.

well...this didn't age well. "Leap to Modernity", whatever.

As a tourist I enjoyed the Turia parks very much 2 years ago. And due to the recent floodings elsewhere in Valencia province your video became very relevant.

I hope you will go back and show us exactly how the old city and the park have done with the current floods 2024. We are all watching with horror the floods in the area all around the city. The river park through Valencia city is fantastic, is it saved or destroyed.

Twenty years ago I was near Barcelona and the outflows of rivers had cars swept along in them. I passed the coast in a boat and literally ran over a full size tree that had been swept out to sea. It's the mountains inland that feed sudden accumulations of rainwater.

They're quick to blame global warming and call it natural disaster I feel for the people Politician's can't be trusted to tell you the real reason

Fabulous, I live nearby and am always impressed by the elegance and beauty of Valencia.

There were comments about the diversion not being beautiful or having bio diversity. However that is not easy when it is mostly dry or a trickle. I was in Monterey Mexico a couple of years ago and the main river there had become beautiful with many large trees, so when a massive amount of rain came there was more flooding than there would have been otherwise. One must not forget that sometimes the function must come first.

Why didn't they split the river leaving the old path and then digging a flood overflow river to the South?

utterly stupid as soon as heavy rains come the river will find its original path like it has for millions of years & now mega floods

The Danube was redirected in Vienna you limey moron!

Big mistake and the locals paid a very high price

7:56 "river". That's such a tease. You should've been on the south bank a week ago. You would've considered it more like a sea.

Luckily, these measurements have now all but guaranteed fatal floods to a bygone era. Mission Accomplished. Wait, what's that. "City expansion and urban sprawl"?

Well, now we know that Turia´s deviation really saved downtown Valencia.

November 2024...A River Moves a City.

Ejemplo perfecto de que lo que diga un tipo desde su casa no tiene validez alguna, gente más capacitada y con más experiencia, es la que desvío el río en el 57, gracias a eso se han salvado vidas. En serio no os creáis lo que os cuentan aquí. Las cosas no se hacen por capricho. Amad vuestro país o región.

SUPERB video. Thank You. Good bless Valencia❤

Interesting this appeared in my feed a few days after the devastating floods

Those birds you saw are egrets, most likely little egrets, or cattle egrets : ) I should think you'll be getting many more views on this video in light of recent tragic events. If climate change has the predicted effects on rainfall, Spain is in a world of trouble with it's urban design. I think future floods will demonstrate the arrogance of past urban planners.

Now this content makes more sense

Well, now we know that by diverting the river they saved the city of Valencia, but they left out the surrounding towns, and carried on building in the areas that would get flooded in a disaster...which has now happened, with a death toll of 214+.

Watching this after the catastrophic and deadly 2024 floods and wondering how this change affected that.

what's your opinion nowadays after the fatal floods of 2024?

Pueden montarlo como quieran, pero otra vez más, salvó a España.

This video didn't age well ., RIP all the people dead due to human stupidity, specially those who see nature and global warming as nuisances, or spendable partners

you can't imagine Valencia with a big river running through it. I'm from there and when I was a child I used to go down to play in the riverbed, there was only a stream that sometimes didn't even carry water. It wasn't a very healthy place, so creating a big park was a great idea.

El algoritmo la clava eh