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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 · […]
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Editorial 
22nd April 2019 HOLY GRAIL IN VALENCIA
##King Arthur, Percival, Lancelot and the other knights of the round table, Siegfried the crusader, Adolf Hitler, the freemasons, Monty Python and Indiana Jones all spent huge amounts of time and energy in search of the Holy Grail and its magic powers. Only Percival and Indy actually got to see it and, even then, only […]
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Food 
31st March 2019 THE LEGENDARY ‘CASA MONTAÑA’
An exclusive interview with owner Emiliano Garcia Domene 1. Tell us about the history of Casa Montaña… It would seem like nothing has changed since Casa Montaña was established in 1836. It continues to be a meeting point, a place that opens us to a universe of possibilities… In chronological order, we can say that […]
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Art 
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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Editorial 
20th January 2019 Kenneth Tynan on Valencia
KENNETH TYNAN ON VALENCIA In his 1975 book ‘The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping,’ Kenneth Tynan wrote: “The new tourism, of which I am a charter member, is more selective…Valencia where a noisy and majestic ugliness stands sentinel, ever ready to repel outsiders, is one of the few places that come close to fulfilling all […]
