Everywhere you look in Valencia there are bats. There is a bat in the coat of arms for the city, ditto that for their football team, Valencia CF. The apocryphal story of the bat dates back to Jaume I and the Reconquista of the city from the Moors. Legend has it that on the eve of Jaume’s battle with the Moors in Valencia there appeared a bat in his war helmet. Soldiers took this as a very bad omen but Jaume convinced them that it was, in fact, a good omen. He rallied his troops and they went on to defeat the Moors and the bat has been part of Valencia ever since.
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