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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 […]
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History 
2nd March 2021 THE BORGIAS (VALENCIA’S MOST INFAMOUS FAMILY)
“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo […]
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Editorial 
24th February 2021 VALENCIAN ACADEMIC & CO-WRITER DR MAFÉ WINS ‘BEST PAPER’ AWARD AT SCIENCE & TOURISM CONFERENCE IN SPAIN
Nazca: the green desert presented by Dr. Mafé and Carlos E. Hermida wins Best Paper in Cordoba. Spain. The academic article has been awarded as the best research paper at the VII International Scientific and Professional Congress on Cultural Tourism in Cordoba. Considered by some to be one of the greatest discoveries of the century, […]
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History 
23rd February 2021 TANKS FOR THE MEMORY
For those of us living in Spain today, democracy is a given and pretty much unmoveable. The dark, dull days of dictatorship seem a long way off. However, if some dangerously deluded bright sparks had got their way on 23 February 1981, things might have been a whole lot different and at the centre of […]
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Editorial 
20th February 2021 VALENCIA HISTORY…TWO MEN CALLED LUIS
##Despite the prejudices of the time, two Valencians of Jewish origin ended up playing a key role in renaissance Europe. One of them, Luis Vives, a true Renaissance man and fifteenth century Zelig (the bloke got everywhere) helped to develop the ideas that formed modern Europe. The other, Luis de Santangel, was instrumental in the […]
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Art 
19th February 2021 SUCCESS OF ‘THE WAY OF THE HOLY GRAIL’ AT THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-PROFESSIONAL CONGRESS ON CULTURAL TOURISM IN CORDOBA (SPAIN)
##More than 170 researchers from 70 universities around the world will participate this year in the VII International Scientific-Professional Congress of Cultural Tourism in Cordoba (Spain), an activity that takes place from Wednesday, February 17th to Friday, February 19th in a virtual format, where various studies of the new post-coronavirus future will be present. Link […]
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Editorial 
3rd February 2021 NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE LEGENDARY ‘NAZCA LINES’ OF PERU (PRESENTED BY VALENCIAN ACADEMIC)
##The mystery of the Nazca Lines of Peru unveiled! The project is to be presented in Spain by Valencian academic Dr Ana Mafé and Spanish engineer Carlos Hermida. It will be presented at the International Congress of Cultural Tourism in Cordoba (Spain) in February 2021. The Salvar Nazca team, led by engineer Carlos Hermida, discovers […]
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Art 
27th January 2021 Valencia City Council collaborates with the Cultural Association The Way of the Holy Grail
Valencia has an interpretation centre of the Holy Chalice of the Cathedral of Valencia and the Way of the Holy Grail in Jubilee Year. Thanks to the union of synergies between Emiliano García (councillor for tourism and president of Fundació Visit València), Antonio Bernabé (managing director of Fundació Visit València), Dr. Ana Mafé García (president […]
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History 
9th January 2021 RUZAFA…A GARDEN OF DELIGHTS IN VALENCIA
##The elegantly scruffy neighbourhood of Ruzafa was first incorporated into the city of Valencia about 130 years ago. Even in that time it has often been seen as being a bit off the beaten track. Now, however, while more central areas become increasingly franchised, sanitised and expensive, it’s Ruzafa which is fast cementing its place […]
