Newton’s Great Invention in the Carmen District
One of Valencia’s most charismatic districts is the Barrio del Carmen, the original historic city centre where you can find architectural remnants from several epochs and interesting anecdotal people and…
Angels Don’t Need Wings: Pascal Kleiman
One of the winners of Spain’s 2009 Goya awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, was a film about the French-born, Valencia-based DJ Pascal Kleiman by director Ángel Loza, who…
Sexy Valencian Architecture
Although it appears to be a church at first sight, or a monastery at least, Valencia’s La Lonja is in fact a civic building, and one of the most curious…
Josep Tornero: Henry Ford PrizeWinner
As more and more of Valencia’s talented scientists look abroad for work, it is important to remember that Valencian achievements are not limited to citrus fruits and sunshine. The Ford…
Your Turn in a Yurta
As most of the film version of Doctor Zhivago was made in Spain, it seems reasonable that the traditional houses used by the steppe wandering Mongols, known as the Yurta,…
Let’s Go With Lego in La Palma
More than 550 regional tournaments since 1998 in 55 countries, involving over 16,000 teams and 30,000 volunteers, and among them a team from Colegio Palma called Palma Friend’s (we hope…
Valencia Blinds Leading the Californian Blinds
Venetian blinds, of the kind that you could see in the posters of the films The Graduate or American Gigolo, are composed of a series of slats, one above the…
VI Visits Massanassa
Valencia International was delighted to receive an invitation from the Colegio de San José & San Andrés of Massanassa to visit the school and explain what our newspaper is to…
Chocolate from Valencia: Bringing it all Back Home
Chocolate has its origin in America as most people know, although Valencians for many years made something similar from the carob tree, which is common in the Valencian mountains among…
Catering for Royalty and the Rest
Paula De Miguel is a Cordon Bleu trained chef who forms part of a delicious Valencian family business. As somebody who has problems frying an egg (they come in…
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