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Editorial 
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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Film 
11th August 2020 “GERMANY ASSURES THAT THE SEARCH FOR THE HOLY GRAIL ENDS IN VALENCIA…”
’24/7 VALENCIA’ ACCOMPANIED A GERMAN TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY TEAM WHEN THEY VISITED VALENCIA IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL… ##24/7 VALENCIA: Can you tell us more about the background to the documentary? HOLY GRAIL OF VALENCIA representative: “This Sunday, August 9th, the German public TV channel ZDF is launching the world premiere of the documentary based […]
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Editorial 
15th June 2020 BENIDORM
##Summer is coming and people from all over Europe and the rest of Spain flock to the Valencia coast. Towns like Cullera, Gandía, Calpe and Dénia increase their populations tenfold in the Summer months. Valencia prides itself on its wealth of history, architecture and art. In reality, it is sun & sea & sand that […]
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History 
21st May 2020 ‘TIRANT LO BLANC’
First published in Valencia in 1490, ‘Tirant lo Blanc’ (or Blanch in the original medieval spelling) is the iconic Valencian novel par excellence. It was the first Spanish chivalry romance to be published and according to the Spanish National Library “the most read book in medieval Europe”. It was written by Valencian courtier Joanot Martorell […]
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Editorial 
29th November 2019 THE WAY OF THE HOLY GRAIL IN VALENCIA
##‘24/7 Valencia’ were honoured to be invited to the presentation of the European consortium of ‘ The Way of The Holy Grail’ at the Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia on 29 November 2019.The presentation and celebration, by the civil society of the Institutional Declaration of Les Corts Valencianes on the ‘Way of the Holy Grail’ included […]
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History 
18th October 2019 MUSLIM VALENCIA
##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 […]
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Editorial 
15th September 2019 THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL PILGRIM TO WALK THE 518 KMS OF THE PATH OF THE HOLY GRAIL FROM SAN JUAN ARRIVES IN VALENCIA!
##At eleven o’clock this Saturday, September 14th (2019) the Italian Antonio Aiardi, the first international pilgrim to travel the entire 518-kilometre route of the ‘Holy Grail Path’ from the Royal Pantheon Monastery of San Juan in Aragon… arrived at the Cathedral of Valencia. At the door of the cathedral was Don Juan Miguel Díaz Rodela, […]
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Editorial 
27th August 2019 LA TOMATINA 2019
##’La Tomatina’ is one of those annual world events that attract enormous amounts and ever increasing amounts of travellers to Valencia. La Tomatina takes place in the normally sleepy village of Buñol about an hour from the city and is a magnet, not just for backpackers and young people taking their year out, but for […]
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Art 
4th August 2019 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF VALENCIA BY ’24/7 VALENCIA’ RESIDENT PHOTGRAPHER ADRI CASTELLANOS
##You can see exclusive photos of Valencia by resident photographer Adri Castellanos in each edition of ’24/7 Valencia’ magazine.
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Art 
24th July 2019 THEATRE, DANCE AND MUSIC IN SAGUNTO AT ‘SAGUNT A ESCENA’ JULY-AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2019
##SAGUNT A ESCENA JULY-AUGUST-SEPTEMBER MAS ALLA DELZAGUÁN 24 de julio de 2019 · Off Romà · CENTRO CÍVICO (JARDINES ANTIGUO SANATORIO) · Puerto de Sagunto MEMPHIS ROCK & CIRK 25 de julio de 2019 · Off Romà · GLORIETA · Sagunto NOTES A LA CIUTAT 25 de julio de 2019 · […]
