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7th February 2022 THE ‘BBC’ IN VALENCIA TO MAKE MINI-DOCUMENTARY ON THE HOLY GRAIL!
#Throughout this last week, the BBC production company directed by Fernando Teixeiro has been filming in different parts of the city of Valencia in order to show the Anglo-Saxon world where the Holy Grail is located. A team has travelled to the city of the Holy Grail to make it known in the United Kingdom. […]
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3rd December 2021 The signposting of the ‘Way of the Holy Grail’ in Ciutat Vella (Valencia) has begun…
##The ‘Asociación Cultural El Camino del Santo Grial’ has started to mark the route of the path in Ciutat Vella (Valencia) through a very simple signposting…accompanied by happy helpers. It has been 20 years since civil society began to work to mark this route and, after two decades in silence, thanks to the sponsorship of […]
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12th November 2021 Internationally-renowned ‘TED Talks’ platform discovers where the Holy Grail is in Valencia!
#The prestigious North American platform with more than 30 million followers on Youtube has published for the first time in its history a conference dedicated to the Holy Grail. Dr. Ana Mafé García, a world expert in the protohistory of the Holy Grail, is the protagonist of a video in which she explains the travelling […]
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1st November 2021 RENAISSANCE WOMAN…ISABEL DE VILLENA OF VALENCIA
#Isabel de Villena was born in 1430 in Valencia. She was the illegitimate daughter of an alchemist wizard; she was an author, nun, ambassador, a leading and inspirational figure in Valencian cultural life and Isabela la Católica’s auntie to boot. A Renaissance Woman in every sense. Isabel was just four years old when her father […]
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27th October 2021 VALENCIA BATS
##You can find bats everywhere in Valencia, both the symbolic version on the city’s crests and the real thing in the cracks and crevices of its buildings. There are four times as many Patudo bats in one cave in ‘El Montgó’ mountain in Javea than in the whole of France, and there are 22 different […]
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14th October 2021 LA RIADA…THE FLOOD OF VALENCIA (OCTOBER 14th 1957 )
##For most of the year the Turia was a dormant little stream which trickled along the sticky mudflats, which Valencia liked to call a river. Writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century, British writer Richard Ford mocked the Valencians for the false grandeur of their magnificent bridges and high river walls… all for a […]
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9th October 2021 JAIME I (VALENCIA)
##Jaime I, the man who re-conquered Valencia from the Moors, drew up the geo-political map of Spain’s Mediterranean coast which largely still exists today and was the founder of the old kingdom of Valencia. Jaime, or Jaume to his friends, was the man responsible for establishing Valencia with a separate identity from its neighbours and […]
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28th September 2021 HEMINGWAY IN VALENCIA
##The original Guiri loco, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ernest Hemingway described Spain as “the last good country left”. His highly romantic and apologetically hedonistic template for enjoying the country has inspired generations of TEFL teachers and Erasmus students to come over, immerse themselves in the culture, live the life and get uncontrollably & […]
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21st September 2021 EXPULSION OF THE MORISCOS…
##In 1609, a cruel and traumatic turn of events saw one third of the Valencian population expelled from Spain never to return. “La expulsion de los Moriscos” (Morisco being a Spanish Muslim who had converted to Catholicism) changed the make up and even the landscape of the Valencian community dramatically and forever. Three centuries earlier, […]
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Food 
3rd September 2021 THE VALENCIAN DRINK HORCHATA
##The warm days are still us so it’s time for a long, cool drink. Valencia has two of its very own. Well, ‘Horchata’ was invented in the Sudan and ‘Agua de Valencia’ is really just Buck’s Fizz with a twist. These days they are both considered as Valencian as paella, fireworks and construction companies. Horchata […]
