New Year’s Eve in Valencia
Unlike in either of our home countries (Germany and the USA), New Year's Eve isn't an excuse for massive parties here in Spain. Most Spaniards celebrate the turning of the…
Unlike in either of our home countries (Germany and the USA), New Year's Eve isn't an excuse for massive parties here in Spain. Most Spaniards celebrate the turning of the…
I've never seen anything quite like the drawing of the Spanish Christmas Lottery, popularly known as El Gordo. The drawing lasts for nearly 3 hours, and consists of two kids,…
For the past few weeks, there have been a lot of protests in Valencia. We already posted about the student protests of the Bolonia Process, but there have also been…
The Christmas season has definitely arrived. Walking around the crowded streets this past Sunday, it eventually dawned on us that all the stores were open. On a Sunday! This is…
It's become a familiar sensation, stepping out in the morning onto normally bustling city streets, and finding them desolate. Walking silently past shuttered cafés and storefronts, and slowly realizing that…
Under the name, "La Luz de Belén", the Valencia Cathedral is displaying a nativity scene this year for the first time in centuries. And it's not just any nativity scene!…
In the Plaza del Mercado, the Iglesia de los Santos Juanes (The Church of the Saint Johns) blends inconspicuously into its surroundings. This area of Valencia is awash in architectural…
Next week, a special performance is being held down at the Valencia Harbor. Get ready to thrill to Cavalia: an acrobatic equestrian odyssey. That's right: it's an acrobatic equestrian odyssey.…
If the students of Valencia spent as much time in the classroom as they do in the streets, they might have cured cancer or put a pony on the moon…
Indiana Jones could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he'd have just gone to the city cathedral in Valencia, where there is a grail that a lot of…