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History 
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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History 
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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History 
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 […]
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History 
23rd August 2021 MARIA SABINA SUEY AND THE HOLY GRAIL
The Holy Grail is a piece of history with strong links to Valencia. Legend dictates that the Holy Grail is the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. Whilst some people question where the Holy Grail is currently located, others believe that it is found inside the Valencia Cathedral. Indeed, Valencia is the […]
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History 
11th July 2021 ROMAN VALENCIA
##It was the Romans who started it all. Before them, Valencia was just a swampy island on the river Turia. The early history of the city was always pretty sketchy but the excavation of the Almoina site behind the Plaza de la Virgen Basilica in 1985 changed all this…giving us information about the city’s beginnings […]
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History 
10th June 2021 EXHIBITION’ “50 ANYS JUNTS” – 50th ANNIVERSARY ‘EL CORTE INGLÉS’ VALENCIA
##On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of El Corte Inglés in Valencia, from June 10, El Corte Inglés Pintor Sorolla will host an exhibition to also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1971 League, won by Valencia C.F. The exhibition will end on August 31. The exhibition will consist of photographs, objects, front pages […]
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History 
6th June 2021 “The Holy Chalice arrived in Valencia from Zaragoza in the first quarter of the 15th century”
The Holy Chalice arrived in Valencia from Zaragoza in the first quarter of the 15th century. The historical route coincides with the Way of the Holy Grail that includes Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel. This week, in the seminar organized by Aula Grial on “The Valencia that received the Holy Chalice”, Dr. Ana Mafé García gave […]
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Film 
3rd June 2021 LEGENDARY VALENCIA FILM DIRECTOR LUIS GARCÍA-BERLANGA
##Luis Garcia-Berlanga (1921-2010) was one of the most influential Valencians of the 20th century. He was arguably the greatest Spanish film director of his time and an arch-satirist of Spanish life. Remarkably, much of his best and most cutting work was under the scrutiny of a censorious dictatorship. Berlanga was born in Valencia in 1921 […]
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History 
15th May 2021 VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ…VALENCIA’S MOST UNIVERSAL CITIZEN
Novelist, journalist, politician, war correspondent, founder of Utopian communes, publisher of books and newspapers, voluntary exile, tireless traveller, political prisoner, anti-clerical, duellist and womaniser…Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia in 1867. His novels have made him one of Valencia’s most celebrated literary sons but, just like so many Valencia Football Club managers, he always […]
