Since 2005, Heineken has been sponsoring concert series in a lager hall down by the port, under the name Greenspace.

Past concerts have included pretty huge names, such as Bloc Party, Sonic Youth, Moby and Paul Weller. Throughout the rest of May and April of this year, there is another long list of concerts — [...]

Valencians go crazy for a lot of things, and I think right after fireworks, chocolate is their favorite passion.
On a Sunday you might see a huge line of people waiting to get a table at "Valor" chocolateria to have churros and hot chocolate. Be careful: the hot chocolate they serve might send you to [...]

More than a hundred festivals celebrating the legendary battles between the Moors and Christians take place every year across Spain. The largest and most popular of these occurs in the beautiful Valencian mountain town of Alcoy.
Source: Trianita @ Flicker
Alcoy’s festival takes place on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of April. The first day [...]

Last Sunday at noon, we stumbled unexpectedly onto a traditional Valencian dance in the Plaza de la Virgen.
The show began with a small marching band, who did a loop around the plaza and punished onlookers with a noise that sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks singing in Chinese.

Then the dancers, decked out in traditional gear, [...]

Last night, Jürgen and I visited the wine festival which we blogged about last week. And now would like to offer you one simple piece of advice: GO.

And go in the evening. There are hundreds of people milling about, providing an atmosphere which starts good and gets better as everyone gets more and [...]

I only have seen skies like this in the Alps. But we probably get the same effect here, due to the mountains surrounding Valencia. At least, that’s my theory.