Valencia’s Corpus Christi 2009
Last year, nasty weather ruined our first Corpus Christi in Valencia, so we're greatly looking forward to this year's celebrations. Acts are scheduled from June 11th to 14th, continuing a…
Last year, nasty weather ruined our first Corpus Christi in Valencia, so we're greatly looking forward to this year's celebrations. Acts are scheduled from June 11th to 14th, continuing a…
You know summer has arrived in Valencia when every weekend is packed full of more festivals than you could possibly care to attend. They've even started to overflow into the…
Last night, we went to the Tapas Festival in Benimaclet. Man, what a chore. "Haha", you're thinking. "As though going to a festival with cheap beer and food could be…
Apologies for the late notice on this one. Tonight, June 3rd 2009, the 6th annual festival of tapas is happening in Benimaclet from 19:00 - 23:30. From what we've heard…
This past Sunday, a small procession wound its way through the streets of the barrio Botànic, which makes up (as one might suppose) the area around the Botanic garden. The…
Lacking a little culture in your day-to-day life? Feel like jamming out to some bongo drumming? Getting sick of Spanish paella and arroz del horno? All valid reasons to head…
We're really late with this one, but here are some images we got from this year's Feria de Abril, which was held (confusingly) at the beginning of May in the…
This weekend it was all about the Virgin. Thousands upon thousands of people took part in the various events which we previewed last Friday. Here's the second of two parts…
This weekend it was all about the Virgin. Thousands upon thousands of people took part in the various events which we previewed last Friday. Here's the first of two parts…
Today at 2pm, pyrotechnic company Vicente Caballer staged a special mascletà in the Plaza de Ayuntamiento, in honor of the day of Our Lady of the Forsaken. That old gal,…