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Ghana Government Looks to Valencia to Promote Sport

Ghana Government Looks to Valencia to Promote Sport

Representatives of the government of Ghana are in Valencia to develop a sports programme for their country with a little help from their Valencian friends. In collaboration with Valencian entrepreneurs,…

FALLING IN LOVE – Rock Music Video Shoot in Teatre Micalet

FALLING IN LOVE – Rock Music Video Shoot in Teatre Micalet

This week the Valencian rock band DAZE OF DAWN completed filming of the first music video clip off their latest album SOFA KING COOL (Clamrecords 2013) for their song FALLING…

Valencia’s World Cup

Valencia’s World Cup

Although Spain is now the World champion, there was a time when nobody ever believed that Spain could become the best team in the World. In 1982, possibly as a…

Wine is Art is Wine

Wine is Art is Wine

Not all great Valencian ideas come about during a stroll along the Great Wall of China, but this one at least did. ‘Artiswine’ (or ‘art is wine’ if you prefer)…

Valencia City Cinema Route Inaugurated

Valencia City Cinema Route Inaugurated

Following the presence of George Clooney and Hugh Laurie in Valencia to film parts of the film Tomorrowland in the City of Arts and Sciences, it shouldn’t be forgotten that…

British Birdwatchers Bewildered by Valencia

British Birdwatchers Bewildered by Valencia

In a country where birdwatching, like trainspotting, is almost a religion, it is unsettling to discover that in the whole of the British Isles, all 315,134 km² of them, there…

Valencia in The New York Times

Valencia in The New York Times

Despite efforts (and threats) to shut them up and to remain a secret place free of Amerikanisation, New York’s most prestigious newspaper The New York Times published an article in…

A Sparkling Valencian New Year in Dubai

Lliria-based firework specialist Vicente Caballer lit up the sky in Dubai with 450,000 explosive devices, illuminating almost 100 kilometres of coastline. The festival of light and sound took place at…

Tabarca say you will

Tabarca say you will

With the new, free Valencia to Alicante via Alcoy motorway finished, it now takes less than two hours to drive down to Santa Pola, embarkation point for the short ferry…

From the Bench to the NBA

From the Bench to the NBA

“Why stare at sports when you can be part of them?” So says the promotional introduction to a video game company situated in Elda, Alicante in the Valencian Community. As…