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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 […]
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History 
14th May 2021 LEGACY OF 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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History 
9th May 2021 ‘TED TALKS’ DISCOVERS ‘THE HOLY GRAIL’ IS IN VALENCIA (SPAIN)
##The prestigious American platform ‘Ted Talks’ with more than 30 million followers on You Tube, 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, has recorded in ‘Aula Grial of Valencia’, an immersive museum […]
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Art 
29th April 2021 ‘THE SILK ROAD’ UNESCO (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT JOSÉ MARÍA CHIQUILLO BARBER)
24/7 VALENCIA: 1. Tell me about your job title and what you do… INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT JOSÉ MARÍA CHIQUILLO BARBER: As Focal Point of Spain in the UNESCO Silk Roads Online Platform since 2015 and International President of the UNESCO SILK ROAD ONLINE PLATFORM Focal Point Network since 2016, which brings together 23 countries of the […]
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History 
12th April 2021 ‘SAN VICENTE FERRER DAY’ 24/7 VALENCIA
##The weekend following Easter is known as the Pascua de San Vicente. The first Monday after Easter Monday is San Vicente Ferrer day, which means we all get a second consecutive long weekend. San Vicente Ferrer, along with his luckless namesake San Vicente the martyr ( who was tortured and executed by the Romans and […]
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Editorial 
9th April 2021 TOURISM SECRETARY VISITS HOLY GRAIL MUSEUM OF VALENCIA
##The Autonomous Secretary of Tourism of the Valencia Community, Frances Colomer, this Thursday 8th of April has visited ‘Aula Grail’ (Holy Grail of Valencia Museum). This meeting was also arranged to see the new room “The Holy Grail in the Civil War” and to give him a copy of the Integral Strategic Plan of the […]
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Editorial 
17th March 2021 TOURISM IN VALENCIA (HOLY GRAIL MUSEUM)
The musuem of the Holy Grail (AULA GRIAL) received the visit of Mr. Gustavo Riveiro D’Angelo, Episcopal Delegate for Tourism and Leisure Pastoral of the Archbishopric of Valencia and parish priest in Paiporta. The priest of the Archdiocese of Valencia, Don Gustavo Riveiro D’Angelo, was appointed at the end of February this year as director […]
