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Fallas 2010: Na Jordana – 7th Place

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 8, 2010
  • Post category:Fallas/Photography/Video
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Na Jordana's monument impressed most in the evening hours, when its haunted mansion and creepy figures were lit up and given an extra air of spookiness. https://vimeo.com/10773203 The motto this…

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Fallas 2010: Plaza de Pilar – 6th Place

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 7, 2010
  • Post category:Fallas
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(Note: we skipped 5th place, which went this year to the commission of Malvarrosa, titled "The Battle of Color". We didn't get down there to see it, much to our…

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Fallas 2010: Sueca – 4th Place

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 5, 2010
  • Post category:Fallas/Photography/Video
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A large Valencian man sleeps on the ground, dreaming of the world, in the monument of Sueca-Literato Azorín, titled "Planet Fallas". Around and on top of him, we find characters…

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Granada – Random Photos

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  • Post published:April 2, 2010
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This will be our last Granada post (I promise), a random collection of pictures taken during our trip there. Enjoy!

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Semana Santa 2010

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 1, 2010
  • Post category:Culture/Events
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I hope you're recovered from Fallas, because the next big celebration is already here. Get ready for the excitement of Semana Santa in Valencia! Sigh. Well, if we must. As…

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Fallas 2010: Nou Campanar – 2nd Place

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 1, 2010
  • Post category:Fallas/Photography/Video
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With a monument ringing in at over $1.6 million, the Fallas commission Nou Campanar apparently wasn't affected by the world's financial crisis. Their's was most expensive Fallas monument ever, displayed…

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Granada – The Cave People of Guadix

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:March 31, 2010
  • Post category:Photography/Travel
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Guadix is a beautiful town an hour east of Granada, which we visited on our trip back to Valencia. (It's also the home of the pyrotechnic company who put on…

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Fallas 2010: Bullfight on March 19th

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:March 26, 2010
  • Post category:Culture/Events/Fallas/Photography/Video
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https://vimeo.com/10384904 We took my dad, a lifelong fan of Hemingway, to his first bullfight on the last day of Fallas, squeezing into the stadium's tiny bench seats as best we…

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Fallas 2010: The Winner

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  • Post published:March 23, 2010
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https://vimeo.com/10373591 After 6 years of dominance by Nou Campanar, the judges of Fallas' "Special Section" monuments have crowned a new champion. Ladies and Gentleman, put your hands together for Convento…

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Fallas 2010: La Ofrenda

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  • Post published:March 23, 2010
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During the last couple days of Fallas, thousands of falleras from all over the province make a pilgrimage to Valencia's Plaza de la Virgen to deliver flowers to Our Lady…

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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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