Generalitat Valenciana
Today is the day of the bird: Valencia-Madrid and vice versa, no longer have to fly, drive, or take a regular train. The train service AVE which nowadays extends from Malaga to Madrid in less than 2.5 hours will also join the capital of Spain’s orange with its national capital on December 19. Yesterday opened the section of new track between Madrid and Cuenca and Albacete, a journey of two hours with the country’s high speed AVE trains. Francisco Camps (President of the Generalitat Valenciana), Jose Blanco (Minister of public works and transport) and Juan Carlos I (King of Spain) visited this inaugural celebration. The trip will last 90 minutes (the new trains can reach speeds of up to 205 miles per hour) and eventually increase its frequency up to twenty trains daily. Passengers can choose between two kinds of service with a total of 365 seats. Club class, in four cars, will have capacity for 71 passengers, while there will be eight carriages tourist class with 294 seats. The bird will drastically reduce travel time current between Madrid and […]