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Popular Festivals 
19th April 2019 SAN VICENTE AND EASTER IN VALENCIA
##With the city all partied out and out of puff after Fallas, Valencia has never been big on Holy Week. Easter is a quiet affair around these parts. Some opt for a tentative pre-Summer trip to the beach in the patchy April weather. Others decide to get away to the mountains for fresh air and […]
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19th March 2019 WHAT DO THE VALENCIANS THINK OF FALLAS?
##Daniel Sanchez has been a fallero for over twenty years in Falla Seneca-Poeta Mas y Ros, one of the hundreds of smaller neighbourhood fallas dotted around the city. What do the Fallas mean for you? -Fallas for me is a traditional festival where you get the chance to get together and enjoy yourself with your […]
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19th March 2019 THE LEGENDARY ‘NA JORDANA’ FALLA
##EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PERE BORREGO, PRESIDENT OF NA JORDANA FALLA According to the records, the first Falla to be erected in the Plaza Na Jordana was way back in 1884 and since 1954 it has been part of the Special Section (the Premier league of Fallas), longer than any other Falla. By 1983, the Fallas […]
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18th March 2019 A FALLAS CONVERSATION!
A Fallas conversation between a Tourist and a Valencian! Brian: Wasn’t that ‘Fallas’ in Mission Impossible II, in that scene when Tom Cruise’s character is in Spain? I love all that fire dancing and those evil-looking hoods. Viçent: What are you talking about? That was just a ridiculous juxtaposition of Fallas and the Holy Week […]
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Popular Festivals 
16th March 2019 FALLAS…THE INSIDE DEAL BY FALLAS VETERANS
MASCLETÀ Daytime fireworks are a very Valencian contribution to the world of pyrotechnics. Forget about pretty pictures in the sky, this is all about noise, rhythm, the smell of gunpowder and having your bones thoroughly shaken by the ferocious aural assault of the finale. All this under blue spring skies, amongst a huge and expectant […]
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Popular Festivals 
14th March 2019 THE MARCHING BANDS OF FALLAS: UNION MUSICAL
They play in the pasacalles, the ofrenda and even at half time at Mestalla… The marching bands that make Fallas what it is The first time you experience Fallas, amongst the sensory overload of the thunderous fireworks, the colourfully crazy fallas monuments and the crowded streets, one of the things that stays with you is […]
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Editorial 
13th March 2019 24/7 Valencia GUIDE to FALLAS 2019
Are you interested in folklore? Tradition? Big dresses? If you are, stick around. Valencia has all that and more, during the celebration known as Fallas. Read this and consider yourself armed for the festivities. LAS FALLAS During the second week of March, you’ll see these large sculptures being set up at practically every street corner. […]
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Editorial 
13th March 2019 WHAT IS FALLAS?
This is what the city’s residents say; condensed for you by David Rhead and Jose Marín… The smell of cordite and the sizzle and crack of rockets. The smell of Buñuelos frying in the middle of the night. The smell of the Plaza de la Virgen carpeted with Spring flowers at four o’clock in the […]
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Popular Festivals 
19th December 2018 VALENCIAN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
The “Todo a un Euro” shops have been stocking tinsel and blow-up Santas for months. Dean Martin is blasting out of the speakers at the Corte Ingles. It’s 20 degrees outside. It must be Christmas time in Valencia, a time for peace on Earth (enjoy it while you can, it’s going to be a Trump […]
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13th November 2018 La Cabina – Valencia International Medium-Length Film Festival (NOVEMBER 14-24)
LA CABINA 2018 La Cabina – Valencia International Medium-Length Film Festival takes its name from the Antonio Mercero film ‘La Cabina’ (1973), winner of an Emmy Award, starring José Luis López Vázquez. This is a now legendary film whose duration is 34 minutes, which is just the right time to truly develop a terrifying […]
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