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Editorial 
9th September 2020 NEW TO THE CITY? SOLEÃ SPANISH SCHOOL: SURVIVAL KIT
##¿New in the city? Here you have some basic and very useful tips to survive in Valencia! SOS! Survival Kit ¿Cómo se dice en español “house”? | How do you say “house” in Spanish? The answer is “casa”. ¿Puedes repetir? | Can you repeat? Más despacio, por favor | Slowly, please No comprendo, no hablo […]
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6th September 2020 VALENCIA STREET ART…EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ‘J.WARX’
24/7 VALENCIA: TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE IN ART AND DESIGN… J.WARX: My experience in design or art is limited. In 2012, I wanted to enter the design school of Valencia to do graphic design and coming from a technical high school. I was not accepted and I went to do industrial design, where […]
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3rd September 2020 OPEN AGAIN! SUPERB SPANISH HAM AND MORE AT ‘LÓPEZ PUERTO RESTAURANTE’
##‘LÓPEZ PUERTO’ started out as a family-run business back in 1954, specializing in ibérico meats in Spain. Their acorn-fed pigs are raised in open fields, which results in the legendary ‘bellota’ jamón ibérico that is rated as “one of the top four hams in the world.” Their ibéricos are so in demand that they now […]
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26th August 2020 CANAL NOU (VALENCIA TELEVISION) …FROM THE ’24/7 VALENCIA’ ARCHIVES
##Despite last-minute pleas and hopes for some sort of settlement, on November 27, 2013, the PP-controlled (the Conservative Partido Popular) Valencian regional parliament voted to close down Canal 9. This was after years of turmoil in the publicly owned Valencia TV channel and its parent organization RTVV, complete with on-air protests, workers being sacked and […]
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23rd August 2020 VIRGINIA DE LA CUADRA GALERA / ENGLISH SPEAKING SPANISH LAWYER
##Could you tell us something about your language and legal background? I was due to complete my law degree, specialising in civil and property law, in June 1999, but just a few months before, in January 1999, with just one subject pending on my degree, I decided to go to England. At school and college I […]
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11th August 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC… TONI COTOLI (MEDITERRANEAN GUITARIST)
24/7 VALENCIA: Tell us something about your background and musical education … TONI COTOLI: I was born in Valencia in 1974. At nine years of age I started my musical studies at the ‘Unión de Pescadores del Cabanyal’ Musical Society, where I played the clarinet. At sixteen, I exchanged the clarinet for the guitar, beginning […]
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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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25th July 2020 VALENCIA GINS, WHITE & ROSADO WINES
## VÍ Vid were ‘on tour’ in the Ribera del Duero, tasting white wines from the Rias Baixas in Galicia and tasting monovarietal wines from Monastrell, Moscatel and Bobal in the next phase of the ‘Concurso de Vinos Valencianos Proava.’ The first two elements have taken us out of our normal comfort zone and challenged […]
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20th July 2020 TOBLERONE-STYLE CHOCOLATE BISCUIT CAKE
##FOOD BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’ Toblerone-style Chocolate Biscuit Cake 1 /2 packet of digestive biscuits, crushed 1 handful of walnuts, crushed with the biscuits 1/3 bar of dark chocolate (72% cocoa solids) 75 gm / 3 oz. butter 2 tablespoons honey 50 gm /2 oz. granulated sugar 50 gm 2 oz. cocoa […]
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13th July 2020 CHEF QUIQUE DACOSTA IS VOTED BEST BUSINESSPERSON OF SPANISH RESTAURANTS & CATERING
##The Royal Academy of Gastronomy recognizes Quique Dacosta, the chef with three Michelin stars, coinciding with the recent tenth anniversary of the founding of the Quique Dacosta Group with headquarters in the Valencian Community and an eye on the international scene. Quique Dacosta Restaurant (3 Michelin stars), ‘El Poblet’ (1 Michelin star), ‘Carolina’, ‘Llisa Negra’, […]
