The Dangerous Allure of Valencian Women
Many houses in the Carmen district of Valencia bear plaques to show that someone famous lived there. Here is the story of one. Starting out as the daughter of a…
Feel me, Touch me, See me
Peter White is the Disability Affairs Correspondent for the BBC’s programme ‘Blind Man Roams the Globe’, broadcast on the World Service. In a recent interview with The Independent newspaper he…
Paella Goes West
Bruce ‘the Boss’ Springsteen and the Soprano family put aside their axes and pocket their envelopes on Saturday 25th of October 2014, which was declared Paella Day; the day of…
Benidorm: Poets’ Paradise
Although no longer noted for the density of its poet population, there was a time when Benidorm was considered an ideal destination to compose an ode or two; so much…
Xaume Olleros’s ‘Time’ has Come
Although born in Madrid, where he spent the first two years of his life, Xaume spent the rest of his youth in Valencia and is now based in Hong Kong,…
Magnolia You Sweet Thing
A favourite place for Valencian children (and some adults) to play is in the little park known as the Glorieta, just near the emblematic Calatrava Bridge. Both here and in…
Bollywood in Buñol
The film that swept the board at the Indian equivalent of the Oscars, Filmfare, was mostly shot in Spain, including a key scene filmed at the annual tomato throwing festival,…
When Dracula Got Sunburnt in Alicante
Christopher Lee, tired of playing Dracula didn’t quite manage to say “never again” and took part in this German production with Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski. Valencian director Jesus Franco…
Josep Renau: Back to Berlin
An exhibition in September and October 2014 of works by the Valencian artist Josep Renau serves to remind us of this great artist; the man who commissioned Picasso’s Guernica. …
Jordi Machí: Artistic Heaven in Lebanon
Jordí Machí travelled the world in search of success, paintbrush in hand, until his arrival in Lebanon in 2012, initially to visit a friend. A chance meeting with a Beirut…
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