Xàtiva: a Castle in the Air
In April 2023 the Star Wars spin-off ‘Andor’ used Xàtiva castle to shoot some scenes for the second season. Valencia’s City of Arts and…
The First Hospital for the Mentally Ill in Europe?
In Valencia there is a street called Calle Hospital, although there isn’t one (a hospital I mean) and from there you can see a…
The Miracle of the Handkerchief
Both Valencia and the French town of Vannes where he died, people are celebrating the 600th anniversary of the birth of Saint Vicente Ferrer,…
A Message from The British Cemetery of Valencia
The British Cemetery of Valencia is one of the city’s best kept secrets and one that demonstrates that Valencia has always had a large…
The Radio: Another Great Valencian Invention
Think of the radio and you automatically think of Marconi, although as with so many other inventions, it is the victors who write history,…
PAY-PAY: the History of the Roll-up
The Americans may have been the first producers of tobacco, and may have invented the cowboy, one of whose essential talents was to be…
A Very Citrus Christmas
Christmas time in England used to be the time when mandarins were common supplementary presents, and this is of course logical because this…
Valencia’s Civil War Souvenirs
It’s hard to imagine bombs falling on Valencia, and yet during the Spanish Civil War Valencia was attacked mercilessly by German and Italian planes…
Cruyff in Valencia
Johan Cruyff is remembered mainly as a player for Ajax and Holland, and as a player and manager of Barcelona Football Club. However,…
Neville Electrifies Valencia
Unfortunately we are not talking about football manager Gary Neville, but about the Julius G Neville company, whose products, manufactured in Liverpool, were used…
Welcome to Valenciadam
Apparently Tarantino called his film Reservoir Dogs when a customer misunderstood him recommending “Au Revoir, Les Enfants” Valencian reservoirs are mostly free of canines,…
British Cemeteries of the Mediterranean
Wherever there has been a British presence in Spain there is usually a British cemetery where many stories of Anglo-Spanish collaboration are to be…