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9th August 2020 THE LEGENDARY ‘CAFÉ LISBOA’ IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF VALENCIA (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)
## 24/7 Valencia: Tell us about the history and philosophy of Café Lisboa… Cafe Lisboa: After seeing a film ‘In the White City’ about Lisbon and visiting the capital of Portugal, the charm and similarity with Valencia in the relationship between cities and the sea was appreciated; hence the definition of our logo, the boat […]
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9th August 2020 VALENCIA ROCK ‘N’ ROLL STAR BRUNO LOMAS (BORN 14 JUNE 1940 Játiva / DIED 17 AUGUST 1990 Puebla de Farnals)
##Youth culture and Rock ‘n’ Roll are not concepts we easily associate with post-war Franco’s Spain. It’s hard to see where they would fit in amongst the grey public works, the development plans and the authoritarian grip of the regime. In the late fifties, at the end of the grim period of total isolation and […]
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7th August 2020 BIOPARC VALENCIA 2020
##Built as part of the Cabacera park development at the Mislata end of the Turia river bed, the Bioparc opened in 2008. It is a new-generation zoo where the idea was to move away completely from the bad old days of the ‘Viveros Gardens’ enclosed zoo, embracing the philosophy of “zoo-immersion” in line with other […]
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5th August 2020 VALENCIA…STATION TO STATION
##There is something magnificent and Jules Verne-like about old mainline railway stations that their clean-lined, concrete & glass modern counterparts can never quite recapture…however beautifully designed. The ultra-fast AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) train arrived in Valencia at a purpose-built station in 2010. As Valencia advances into a new age of high-speed rail links, underground tunnels […]
Art 
4th August 2020 LIVE THEATRE , MUSIC AND MORE IN SAGUNTO! ‘SAGUNT A ESCENA’ 2020 (AUGUST 4th –SEPT 5th)
##The 37th edition of the ‘Sagunt a escena’ festival has arrived. This year it will be held from 4th August to 5th September with the slogan ‘Recuperem l’escena’. ‘Sagunt a escena’ will feature nearly 40 performances by Valencian groups and companies in the performing and musical arts. The director general of the Institut Valencià de […]
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4th August 2020 A VALENCIA LIVING LEGEND…EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GAIZKA MENDIETA
GAIZKA MENDIETA 1. Describe a typical month for Gaizka Mendieta… Flying! A lot of travelling whether it is for work or for personal reasons. I work from home or I have meetings. I try to get the right balance between work and quality time with family & friends. I have a lot of commitments with […]
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3rd August 2020 ‘JARDÍN DEL TURIA’ OF VALENCIA (SPAIN’S LONGEST URBAN GARDEN)
##Paloma Ceballos (https://tuguiaenvalencia.com/) misses giving tours, her job before the Coronavirus pandemic struck the world. Ceballos refers to the ‘Jardín del Turia’ as a river (rio in Spanish), which used to cross through the city. The river that is now a garden was diverted south of the city, in 1957, because of the big flood. […]
Art 
3rd August 2020 ‘FUSIONART’ IN BENIMACLET (VALENCIA)
##24/7 VALENCIA: ‘WHAT IS FUSIONART’? FUSIONART: “It is an association of artists for all audiences where all kinds of arts can be expressed and merged: concerts, theatre, dance, theme nights, exhibitions, workshops, courses, juggling and much more. We are always open to new proposals!” FUSIONART C/ JUAN GINER ,5 46020 Valencia BENIMACLET Valencia, Spain Tel: […]
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3rd August 2020 ‘MALVARROSA’ BEACH OF VALENCIA
##Valencia has always had a strange relationship with the sea. The city’s port has been a great source of wealth over the centuries but Valencia doesn’t feel like a maritime city and as people round here will tell you, the city was built with its back to the sea. People have been making sandcastles and […]
Art 
2nd August 2020 LA BATISFERA IN ‘EL CABANYAL’ (BOOKS, TAPAS, WINES, CRAFT BEERS & LIVE MUSIC)
##LA BATISFERA LIBRARY 24/7 Valencia: Can you tell us more about your library? La Batisfera: La Batisfera’ international bookstore is an open and inclusive space, aware of the place it occupies in a barrio as dynamic and multicultural as ‘El Cabanyal’ by the sea. Incidentally, the name in English would be ‘Bathysphere’, which is defined […]
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