Falomir: Games Without Frontiers
The Valencian board game manufacturer Falomir, with headquarters in La Eliana, is searching for new horizons on the other side of the Atlantic, and hopes to sign agreements in Argentina…
Attacking Valencia (on-line)
El Cid didn’t die at the Battle of Valencia in 1094, nor did he sacrifice himself for God, Spain and Alfonso. El Cid lived for another 5 years after his…
IES Barri del Carmen discovers El Cid
Teachers and students from the Barri del Carmen secondary school visited the L’Iber museum on 1st December 2014 to participate in the Hollywood and History project. After a tour of…
DISCAVART
DISCAVART will probably be remembered and relived in various formats in the years to come, but those happy few, that merry band of brothers and sisters who were there at…
Hollywood and History
Hollywood and History got off to a great start on the morning of November 28th 2014 when a group of adult FPA students accompanied by their English teacher Angels Gonzàlez,…
The Rice Museum of Valencia
It’s logical I suppose that when the City of Valencia decided to turn an old rice mill into a museum, that they should consult the Faculty of Industrial Engineers of…
The Beatles in Villar del Arzobispo
The legendary British pop group The Beatles made a special appearance in the legendary Valencian village of Villar del Arzobispo on November 26th 2014. The story of the group was…
What’s the ‘Huerta’?
The English word ‘orchard’ was once spelt “hortyard”, and derives from the Latin “hortus”, meaning ‘garden’ and the old English “geard”, meaning ‘yard’. In Valencia the “huerta”, although it can…
The Valencia Marathon 2014
On November 16th 2014 Valencia celebrated the thirty-fourth edition of the Trinidad Alonso Marathon. The event coincided with another ten kilometre race in which eight thousand runners participated. This article…
Gregorio Mayans: an Enlightened Man of his Time
Gregorio Mayans y Siscar (1699–1781) was a historian, linguist and writer from Oliva during the Enlightenment. Born on 9 May 1699 his father fought on the wrong side during the…
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