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Hola Valencia’s Top Five: Festivals

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:September 2, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Well, I bet you've already guessed one of the festivals on our list! Sorry, Assumption Day, it's not you. Here are the five festivals we loved the most during our…

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Where Have All the Fibers Gone?!

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:July 13, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals/Music
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The Festival Internacional de Bencassím gets going this week. Organizers are speculating that the number of party-goers is going to be greatly reduced this year... losing perhaps as many as…

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Concerts of the Feria de Julio

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:June 25, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals/Music
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It's always exciting to see who's going to be performing during the summer concert series in the Viveros Gardens, part of the Feria de Julio. So, let's see what we've…

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July’s Jazz Festival Shaping Up to Be Hot

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:June 16, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals/Music
  • Post comments:3 Comments

Jazz fans, listen up! Melody Gardot, Natalie Cole, Nikki Yanofsky, Dr. John, Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças (CéU), Joshua Redman and Avishai Cohen are some of the big names that…

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Paseo de las Rocas 2010

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:June 7, 2010
  • Post category:Bizarre/Culture/Festivals/Photography/Vocab
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Crazy weather tried, but wasn't able to totally dampen the Corpus Christi festivities this year, and we made sure to show up for at the Palacio Arzobispal for the Paseo…

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Corpus Christi 2010

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:June 3, 2010
  • Post category:Culture/Festivals
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The festivities for Corpus Christi, one of Valencia's most important holidays, get underway tomorrow and run through the weekend. Huge statues, creepy white-robed ladies, elaborately decorated balconies and unfairly burdened…

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III Festival de Mediterrani

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 28, 2010
  • Post category:Culture/Festivals/Music
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It's all about the ladies at the third annual Festival de Mediterrani, at the Palau de las Arts Reina Sofia. With the slogan "ELLA", the operas featured during the month-long…

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Festival de las Naciones

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 27, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals
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It's been going on for a couple weeks now, but we finally made it down to the Festival of Nations in the Turia riverbed, near the Alameda metro station. The…

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Our Lady of the Forsaken

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 7, 2010
  • Post category:Events/Festivals
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This weekend, always on the second Sunday in May, Valencia celebrates its patron saint, Our Lady of the Forsaken. The city's most insane religious procession takes place on Sunday morning,…

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The Ubik Café & The Tapa del Libro

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 21, 2010
  • Post category:Books/Events/Festivals
  • Post comments:4 Comments

If you're not familiar with the Ubik Café in Ruzafa, then you're missing out on one of the coolest hangouts in the city. The Ubik is more than just a…

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We're Jürgen and Mike, from Germany and the USA. We've been living in Valencia on-and-off since 2008. Much of our time is spent traveling the world with For 91 Days... but Valencia is the city we call home, and to which we'll always return.
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