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Pruning Cherry Trees

Pruning Cherry Trees

The Valencian NGO Fundem organises all kinds of events, and on 30th January 2016 they will be pruning cherry trees in the Valle Gallinera. Participants and volunteers should meet at…

Fatima School Learning in the Huerta

Fatima School Learning in the Huerta

A second group of students from the Fatima school visited Alboraya on January 12th, where they learnt some languages, some history, some geography, some maths, some etymology and some chemistry.…

A Message from LA

A Message from LA

Valencian musician, sound engineer and Grammy award winner Alfonso Rodenas sent this new year message to all Valencia International readers. Dear friends & fellow travellers, We finally watched the 1972…

Cleaning Up After Clooney’s Coffee

Cleaning Up After Clooney’s Coffee

Damn that George Clooney and his smooth-talking, sexy advertisements in favor of Nespresso! So effective has he been that everyone is drinking the stuff now. Fortunately a Valencian firm is…

Reread: Recycling Culture

Reread: Recycling Culture

They say that you can tell a person from their bookshelves; but then ‘they’ say so many silly things. Today, in Valencia, it’s no longer necessary to wear your heart…

IES Foios Visits the Past

IES Foios Visits the Past

Students from IES Foios, accompanied by their teachers Pilar and Angela visited L’Iber museum on 16th of December 2015 in order to find out why so many English language films…

Discovering the Huerta

Discovering the Huerta

A group of students from Colegio Fatima, accompanied by their English and Biology teachers Amparo and Maria Jose, participated in our Wander in the Huerta activity, where they learnt a…

L’Iber Museum: Imagining America

L’Iber Museum: Imagining America

The L’Iber Museum, with the largest collection of miniatures and toy soldiers in the world, inaugurated another new exhibition on December 22nd 2015. This ambitious exhibition attempts to review American…

Love in Action

Love in Action

35 operations, 35 labours of love is the objective of the Valencian NGO ‘Amor en acció’, who are undertaking their 7th visit to Burkina Faso in August and September 2015.…

Valencia: Where the Streets have a Name: José Aguirre

Valencia: Where the Streets have a Name: José Aguirre

José Aguirre was born in the port area of Valencia known as ‘El Grao’ in 1842. José’s father was Basque, and José was sent at the age of 18 to…