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Editorial 12th January 2021 LEGACY OF MUSLIM VALENCIA
By: 247valencia##Valencia was a Muslim town for well over 500 years. The Moors ruled over a prosperous, expanding city but how much of their legacy remains? The great Moorish General, Tariq Ibn Ziyad, a former slave who had risen through the ranks and had already conquered most of Southern and central Spain with a small but […]
Editorial 11th January 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… ‘KIRUU’ WITH HIS LATEST ALBUM “SUPER FEO EXPRESS”
By: 247valencia24/7 Valencia: Tell us something about your background, travels and experiences… Kiruu: Originally of Irish-English origin, I grew up between Tanzania and Kenya. I’ve also lived and worked in Valencia in Spain, Argentina, France, and travelling widely around the globe. These experiences have coloured my music with styles and languages that form an integral part […]
Editorial 11th January 2021 DOG REFUGE IN VALENCIA
By: 247valenciaNo matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. – Louis Sabin With its numerous parks, open spaces and of course ‘El Rio’ Garden of the Turia meandering through the centre, Valencia is a great place to own a dog. I love nearly all animals… not insects, […]
Editorial 10th January 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…MANOLO VALLS (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)
By: 247valencia24/7 VALENCIA:Tell us something about your musical training and education… MANOLO VALLS: I started my musical training very young at the Musical Casino of Godella, my town, but the teaching methods of the time were not very suitable for young children and did not do you any favours if you really loved music. However, my […]
Editorial 9th January 2021 SIX WINES FROM VALENCIA AND SEVEN CHAMPAGNES
By: 247valencia>##This month we look at six wines from DO Valencia and seven Champagnes from Taittinger. DO Valencia. DO Valencia covers the parts of the province not covered by DO Utiel-Requena and DO Cava. Alicante and Castellon have their own controlling bodies. It is split into a number of sub-zones which cover the area from Xativa […]
Editorial 9th January 2021 LOCAL SHOPPING! Interview with Manuel Pastor of ‘Frutos Secos del Carmen’
By: 247valencia24/7 VALENCIA:Tell us something about your background and experiences… My name is Manuel Pastor and I am 54 years old and i am the owner of a family-run, independent local shop in the Barrio del Carmen called ‘Frutos Secos del Carmen’, which is a dried fruit shop in the old town. My childhood and adolescence […]
Editorial 9th January 2021 AMSTEL BEER… “MADE IN VALENCIA” A NEW DESIGN FOR ITS ‘CERVEZA’
By: 247valencia##THIS SPECIAL VERSION CELEBRATES THE CHARACTER AND VALENCIAN ORIGIN OF AMSTEL It is precisely the link with Valencia that has made this the only region that, in this new stage, is going to have its own label and packaging and also different from the rest of the country. As the only brewery of major brands […]
Editorial 9th January 2021 VALENCIA…STATION TO STATION
By: 247valencia##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 […]
Editorial 7th January 2021 ‘CENTRO ÓPTICO LOSAN’ IN VALENCIA
By: 247valencia##24/7 VALENCIA:Could you tell us more about your services and expertise? CENTRO ÓPTICO LOSAN: We have over 20 years of experience dedicated exclusively to vision care. Located in C/ Fontanars dels Alforins in the Patraix barrio of Valencia, our centre has specialists in optometry and contactology. At ‘CENTRO ÓPTICO LOSAN’ we control the development of […]
Editorial 7th January 2021 Cánovas district (VALENCIA)
By: 247valencia##Building started on what we now call Cánovas in 1912. It was part of the turn of the century ‘Ensanche’ or suburban expansion of the city propelled by the profits and needs of the newly rich, upper middle-class industrialists and traders in rice and oranges who wished to make their mark on the city and […]