It’s Panto Time – 2026
If you have not been to a BCC Christmas season pantomime, it’s time to buy tickets. You won’t be disappointed. This year’s production is…
Caixa Forum – Rembrandt: A World in Engravings
https://caixaforum.org/es/valencia/p/rembrandt.-un-mundo-en-grabados-valencia The Caixa Forum in Valencia is consistently one of the best museums in the city. The curators consistently deliver hight quality exhibitions and…
Valencia and George Clooney
The Walt Disney film, starring George Clooney, called ‘Tomorrowland’, which was filmed partly in Valencia in January 2014, received its Spanish premiere in Valencia…
Rafael Maluenda: Director Valencia Film Festival
Luis Berlanga is undoubtedly Valencia’ greatest film director, and an icon of the seventh art in Spain. One man whose career has been closely…
APAVAC Bookclub March 2015
Hiya All! “The state of being apart”, “apart-hood” or what we know better by its more familiar Afrikaans name – Apartheid! Given the horror,…
Running on the Streets of Valencia
Valencia’s Marathon has for years been attracting an increasing and more international number of runners, and its younger sister, the Divina Pastora street race…
The Art of Guerra
After the hustle and bustle of New York, Miguel Guerra seeks peace, quiet and superheroes in Valencia. Miguel Guerra’s children go to the…
Otos: the Village where Time (almost) Stands Still
Hidden away in the deep, dark, rocky recesses of the Vall de Albaida, to the far far west of Valencia, is a village where…
Francisco Mora: Valencia’s Gaudí? Part One
Thousands of people visit Gaudí’s monuments in Barcelona, and his name appears in films such as Vicky, Christina, Barcelona, Gaudí Afternoon and Antonioni’s The…
Colon Market
The old Anglo Saxon word for market was “ceap”, from which we get the word ‘cheap’. Colon Market is anything but cheap and is…
APAVAC Book Club
Hiya all! What do “Asterix in Britain” and “English Beauty” have in common? Got you there, didn’t I? Well, they both get you all…
Valencia’s Other Artists: José Benlliure
José Benlliure y Gil (1858 – 1937) was a contemporary of Sorrolla, and the Sorrolla Musuem, which is curiously located in Madrid, has in…