• History
    RENAISSANCE WOMAN…ISABEL DE VILLENA OF VALENCIA

    #Isabel de Villena was born in 1430 in Valencia. She was the illegitimate daughter of an alchemist wizard; she was an author, nun, ambassador, a leading and inspirational figure in Valencian cultural life and Isabela la Católica’s auntie to boot. A Renaissance Woman in every sense. Isabel was just four years old when her father […]

  • History
    VALENCIA BATS

    ##You can find bats everywhere in Valencia, both the symbolic version on the city’s crests and the real thing in the cracks and crevices of its buildings. There are four times as many Patudo bats in one cave in ‘El Montgó’ mountain in Javea than in the whole of France, and there are 22 different […]

  • History
    LA RIADA…THE FLOOD OF VALENCIA (OCTOBER 14th 1957 )

    ##For most of the year the Turia was a dormant little stream which trickled along the sticky mudflats, which Valencia liked to call a river. Writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century, British writer Richard Ford mocked the Valencians for the false grandeur of their magnificent bridges and high river walls… all for a […]

  • History
    JAIME I (VALENCIA)

    ##Jaime I, the man who re-conquered Valencia from the Moors, drew up the geo-political map of Spain’s Mediterranean coast which largely still exists today and was the founder of the old kingdom of Valencia. Jaime, or Jaume to his friends, was the man responsible for establishing Valencia with a separate identity from its neighbours and […]

  • History
    HEMINGWAY IN VALENCIA

    ##The original Guiri loco, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ernest Hemingway described Spain as “the last good country left”. His highly romantic and apologetically hedonistic template for enjoying the country has inspired generations of TEFL teachers and Erasmus students to come over, immerse themselves in the culture, live the life and get uncontrollably & […]

  • History
    EXPULSION OF THE MORISCOS…

    ##In 1609, a cruel and traumatic turn of events saw one third of the Valencian population expelled from Spain never to return. “La expulsion de los Moriscos” (Morisco being a Spanish Muslim who had converted to Catholicism) changed the make up and even the landscape of the Valencian community dramatically and forever. Three centuries earlier, […]

  • Food
    THE VALENCIAN DRINK HORCHATA

    ##The warm days are still us so it’s time for a long, cool drink. Valencia has two of its very own. Well, ‘Horchata’ was invented in the Sudan and ‘Agua de Valencia’ is really just Buck’s Fizz with a twist.  These days they are both considered as Valencian as paella, fireworks and construction companies. Horchata […]

  • History
    MARIA SABINA SUEY AND THE HOLY GRAIL

    The Holy Grail is a piece of history with strong links to Valencia. Legend dictates that the Holy Grail is the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. Whilst some people question where the Holy Grail is currently located, others believe that it is found inside the Valencia Cathedral. Indeed, Valencia is the […]

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