You’ll be forgiven for not already having booked your holiday home or hotel reservation, for the 33rd edition of the America’s Cup, to be held on February 8-12. As of today, the very staging of the event is still up in the air. “Your sails were made in the US! Not Switzerland!” Seriously, that’s the [...]

Ruzafa is certainly at no loss for great restaurants. Diners can find just about anything here, from decent budget food for the impoverished, to fancy cuisine for the wealthy. Comfortably occupying the middle ground is the Casa Botella Tavern, near the Mercado Ruzafa. Putting a unique spin on traditional rice & stew dishes, it’s an [...]

For the past couple months, the Valencia Forum had been attacked by spammers, but we finally managed to clean up the code. The thousands of fake users had prevented us from approving real people, but these problems are hopefully a thing of the past. We’d like to invite you to join, or re-visit, the forums. [...]

You’ll probably have noticed that the stores in Valencia are closed again today. The reason this time is the celebration of San Vincente Ferrer, the city’s patron saint. This is a festival for just the city of Valencia — outside the city nucleus, life continues as normal. The main event of the day is a [...]

Artichoke Fun Fact! The origin of artichokes is a mystery, though they’re thought to be natively from North Africa. Benicarló is a small seaside town on the northern end of the province of Castellón, near Peñíscola. It’s become a tourist haven during the summer, so winter is the perfect time to explore the village. But [...]