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Young Valencian Award-Winning Engineering Talent

Young Valencian Award-Winning Engineering Talent

Joan Antoni Grau Sapiña, a young engineer from Cullera, Valencia, has wons the  Graduate of the Year in the ‘Young Engineers Awards’.  This event is a worldwide recognition for the…

TouchTheSky: Glasses for Pandas?

TouchTheSky: Glasses for Pandas?

  Probably not; no self-respecting panda would put on glasses made of bamboo and resist the temptation to eat them! And anyway, made to feel light, and weighing in at…

Guastavino: The Documentary

Guastavino: The Documentary

The Valencian documentary company Endora’s documentary about the legendary Valencian architect and builder Rafael Gustavino, has won the Golden Dolphin Award at Cannes, for a work with filming taking place…

Rodolfo Navarro: The Long March from the Great Wall to Shenzen

Rodolfo Navarro: The Long March from the Great Wall to Shenzen

The latest news about Valencian artist Rodolfo Navarro is that he has been contracted by China’s third largest city, Shenzen, to erect a statue in one of its squares. The…

Watercolour in Valencia

Watercolour in Valencia

By Chris Dennison   “Watercolour is a swim in the metaphysics of life…. A mirror of one’s own character.” (Anonymous) I was chatting the other day with Jose Galarzo, president…

Insigna: Dressing Europe’s Police

Insigna: Dressing Europe’s Police

The Valencia clothing Company Insigna was created in the 1970s by Valencian entrepreneur Antonio Gil de los Ríos, and is now run by his children Mario and Antonio. The basis…

Mobincube: Valencian APPlied Science

Mobincube: Valencian APPlied Science

Why download an app from the Internet when you can download one from your own brain? That’s the philosophy of Mobincube, a Valencian company that allows users to create their…

Pablo Noguera in the French Institute

Pablo Noguera in the French Institute

Valencia (and half French) artist Pablo Noguera’s latest exhibition deals with the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, drawing on sources such as Homer’s Odyssey to reflect upon this critical situation.…

La Muralleta: Down by the River

La Muralleta: Down by the River

Ribarroja is a long town, one of these that grew alongside a main road that followed the merry, winding River Turia. And it’s rtight there down by the river that…

Abraham Meneu and the American Dreamworks

Abraham Meneu and the American Dreamworks

Valencian Abraham Meneu is one of eight Spaniards who work at Dreamworks, the Company set up by Steven Spielberg and others. Although he was the only one involved in their…