Rafael Maluenda: Director Valencia Film Festival
Luis Berlanga is undoubtedly Valencia’ greatest film director, and an icon of the seventh art in Spain. One man whose career has been closely linked to Berlanga is Rafael Maluenda,…
APAVAC Bookclub March 2015
Hiya All! “The state of being apart”, “apart-hood” or what we know better by its more familiar Afrikaans name – Apartheid! Given the horror, revulsion and the unfairness that the…
Running on the Streets of Valencia
Valencia’s Marathon has for years been attracting an increasing and more international number of runners, and its younger sister, the Divina Pastora street race is now notching up similarly favourable…
The Art of Guerra
After the hustle and bustle of New York, Miguel Guerra seeks peace, quiet and superheroes in Valencia. Miguel Guerra’s children go to the same school that his aunt went…
Otos: the Village where Time (almost) Stands Still
Hidden away in the deep, dark, rocky recesses of the Vall de Albaida, to the far far west of Valencia, is a village where time stands still. Or at least…
Francisco Mora: Valencia’s Gaudí? Part One
Thousands of people visit Gaudí’s monuments in Barcelona, and his name appears in films such as Vicky, Christina, Barcelona, Gaudí Afternoon and Antonioni’s The Passenger; and yet Valencia has its…
Colon Market
The old Anglo Saxon word for market was “ceap”, from which we get the word ‘cheap’. Colon Market is anything but cheap and is a fairly successful attempt to “do…
APAVAC Book Club
Hiya all! What do “Asterix in Britain” and “English Beauty” have in common? Got you there, didn’t I? Well, they both get you all tangled up in the intricacies and…
Valencia’s Other Artists: José Benlliure
José Benlliure y Gil (1858 – 1937) was a contemporary of Sorrolla, and the Sorrolla Musuem, which is curiously located in Madrid, has in fact a painting of Sorrolla by…
The Caves of Alicante
A cave is a lot more than a hole in the ground; it is a place to dream. The province of Alicante is full of holes, and people have been…
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