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Ignacio Pinazo: Valencia’s Mad Hatter

Ignacio Pinazo: Valencia’s Mad Hatter

Pinazo, who was born in Valencia in January 1849, and who died in nearby Godella in October 1916, worked largely in the impressionist style. Born into a poor family, Pinazo…

El Rall: A Net that Fishes the Famous

El Rall: A Net that Fishes the Famous

Christina Olaechea has an interesting family history, which is reflected in the interesting family restaurant that she runs with her husband just between the cathedral and La Lonja, two of…

VI Returns to IES Malilla

VI Returns to IES Malilla

The test of a good relationship is if you are invited back, and VI was indeed invited to return to IES Malilla by the English department, known and feared throughout…

FIRST APAVAC CASTELLÓ ENGLISH TEACHERS’ MORNING

FIRST APAVAC CASTELLÓ ENGLISH TEACHERS’ MORNING

On the 25th October APAVAC held their first meeting in Castelló. Fifty-five colleagues attended, getting all kinds of information about the origins, aims and everyday life of our association. People…

A Ticket to Ride: Dandy Horse

A Ticket to Ride: Dandy Horse

There are surely few places with such an international history in Valencia as Dandy Horse. The name itself, in English as is much of what you can see in this…

Valencia International Visits IES Conselleria

Valencia International Visits IES Conselleria

Valencia International today visited IES Conselleria in search of young journalists to write about such diverse matters as Levante Football Club. Thanks to their teacher Maria Orts, we were able…

VI in Massanassa

VI in Massanassa

For the second year running Valencia International was invited to Colegio San José & San Andrés to organize activities with the students of 3rd And 4th ESO. This time we…

EMV Levante and 2,000 Years on the Valencia Underground

EMV Levante and 2,000 Years on the Valencia Underground

This activity recently attracted the interest of Valencia’s main newspaper EMV Levante: http://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2014/09/25/des-metro-mil-anys-dhistoria/1166345.html The Irish rock group U2 wrote a famous song ‘Where the Streets Have no Name’. In Valencia,…

Feel me, Touch me, See me

Feel me, Touch me, See me

Peter White is the Disability Affairs Correspondent for the BBC’s programme ‘Blind Man Roams the Globe’, broadcast on the World Service. In a recent interview with The Independent newspaper he…

IES Serpis Goes Underground

IES Serpis Goes Underground

Valencia International returned to IES Serpis to share 2,000 years of Valencian history on the underground, an activity for schools using a simple underground map to review Valencian history from…