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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 […]
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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 […]
