Tasca de Russafa is a huge place, popular in the evening for their tapas. Our first time there, it was so packed that we had to leave again. But, we soon came back to try their menú del dia.

All the food was freshly cooked and yummy. And their desserts … mmm … but you’ll see [...]

Until June 15th, you’ll have a chance to see a great exhibition of paintings by El Greco, in the San Pío V Museum of Fine Arts (location).

The Tears of St. Peter
The exhibition (which is unfortunately only in Spanish) focuses on the painter’s relationship with the city of Toledo, around 1900. At the turn of [...]

Today, we’re presenting two new features to our Valencia Blog.
1. Valencia TV

This is an extra page on the blog dedicated to high-quality videos we’ve uploaded to Vimeo. Vimeo also supports videos in HD quality, though we’re not at that level yet. Let’s see how well things go this year… we might shoot HD videos of [...]

Sadly, the 2008 celebrations for Corpus Christi, one of Valencia’s most traditional and popular festivals, were ruined by bad weather.

Most of the events take place on Sunday, and we went at noon to see the Cabalgata del Convite, during which children would have their throats slit by King Herrod’s henchmen. That’s my [...]

On Wednesday we had to run an administrative errand. The office was right across the Micalet and while waiting we got a nice view of people queuing up to take advantage of the chance to kiss the Virgin. This also symbolises the end of Festival of Virgin de los Desamparados.
Here are the recently captured highlights [...]

After the Traslado, the weather turned so bad that they had to postpone the official Procession (I was wrong to announce that they had canceled it). Enjoy the video and images of the Virgen de Desamparados getting carried around the long way home. And yes, more rose petals!

March of the Virgin - Valencia from Valencia [...]

Source: ADN.es
Street View is one of the more incredible of Google’s many free map-based applications. And now, it’s coming to Valencia.
Starting Monday, Google’s fleet of camera-equipped cars will be cruising our streets, taking pictures for their Street View of Valencia. Keep your eyes peeled.
If you’re not familiar with this application, basically: it’s awesome. [...]

This is the first in what will be a collection of posts about the Colegio del Patriarca (location). There’s a lot to say about this extraordinary building, and we’d like to delve deeper than the length of a single post would comfortably allow.
In this post, clicking any image will open up a larger version
Introduction
Over [...]

I took these pictures last night … but let’s see if I can get better shots of the moon tonight. These are nice, but came out a little too shaky.

I am so giddy right now! I just heard about the great news that the new iPhone with 3G will be launching next month probably on June 18th or the next day after. Finally!
There is nothing on the Apple.es page yet but there will be soon so keep an eye on it.
Link: Apple Store Spain
Source: [...]