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12th December 2021 VALENCIA SHOPPING …’SEBASTIAN MELMOTH’
## Oscar Wilde chose the name ‘Sebastian Melmoth’ in honour of Saint Sebastian and he chose the surname Melmoth in honour of the Gothic novel ‘Melmoth the Wanderer’. The story behind this name inspired the Spaniards Laura Soriano and Roberto Martín to name their project ‘Sebastian Melmoth’, which is now located on C/ Baja, 50, […]
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2nd December 2021 EXPLORING CABANYAL BY BIKE…
##One day, my friend and I decided to rent bikes and ride to the Cabanyal barrio. We didn’t really have a set plan, but we wanted to have a spontaneous day of visiting cafés and the beach. Our first stop was ‘Churrería Heladería Los Olivares’, an indoor/outdoor restaurant that has croissants, juices, coffee and more. […]
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29th November 2021 THE LAKE OF RICE AND THE FOREST ON THE DUNES: L’ALBUFERA NATIONAL PARK (VALENCIA)
With its unique mix of paddy fields, barracas, rustic rice restaurants, sand dunes, reeds, pines and beaches, you won’t find anywhere more quintessentially Valencian than the Albufera National park. Right next to the city, the Albufera is easily the biggest freshwater lake in the whole of the Iberian Peninsula. It stretches out to 6 square […]
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26th November 2021 SHOPPING AT ‘PETULA DAVIANO’ IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF VALENCIA
24/7 VALENCIA: COULD YOU TELL US SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF ‘PETULA DAVIANO’? PATRICIA OF ‘PETULA DAVIANO’: “I have always been passionate about the story told by objects, their successive lives, the history of the craftsmen and women who make them and what they express in their interiors. Moreover, I have had the opportunity […]
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24th November 2021 Valencia Balconies
#Valencia is a city bereft of back gardens. A fact which is bemoaned by every single expat who misses a place where you can stretch out under the sunshine, kick a ball around and barbecue Asda-lemon-and-coriander chicken breasts. What you get instead is one of the city’s 300,000 balconies. But the Valencian balcony is more […]
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24th November 2021 The I Jornadas ‘Way of the Holy Grail in Valencia’ Ciutat Vella (1+1=5) start with a floral happening…
The I Jornadas Camino del Santo Graal in Ciutat Vella (1+1=5) start with a floral happening in the centre of Valencia. The Department of Entrepreneurship and Economic Innovation has launched a series of sponsored activities in ‘Ciutat Vella’(old town) aimed at revitalising this emblematic part of Valencia. The Asociación Cultural El Camino del Santo Grial […]
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19th November 2021 Different activities with ‘The Way of the Holy Grail’ in Valencia from 23 November to 3 December!
#24/7 VALENCIA:COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES? THE WAY OF THE HOLY GRAIL: From 23 November to 3 December different activities will be held in Ciutat Vella (old town of Valencia) around the Way of the Holy Grail, the Route of Knowledge and the Way of Peace. The Department of Entrepreneurship and Economic […]
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11th November 2021 VALENCIA…STATION TO STATION
##There is something magnificent and Jules Verne-like about old mainline railway stations that their clean-lined, concrete & glass modern counterparts can never quite recapture…however beautifully designed. The ultra-fast AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) train arrived in Valencia at a purpose-built station in 2010. As Valencia advances into a new age of high-speed rail links, underground tunnels […]
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9th November 2021 ‘TRIPS & EVENTS V’ …DAY TRIP TO ALCOI AND XÀTIVA ON NOVEMBER 14th!
24/7 VALENCIA: COULD YOU GIVE US MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE DAY TRIP TO ALCOI AND XATIVA? ‘TRIP & EVENTS V’ ORGANIZER EVGENII K: ALCOI Alcoi is situated in the Comunidad Autónoma (autonomous community) of Valencia in southeastern Spain. This historic town is well-known for its fantastic Moors and Christians fiesta, cuisine, and areas of natural […]
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5th November 2021 New ‘Ecorganic’ supermarket (24/7 Valencia report)
#Grupo Veritas continues its expansion in the Valencian Community with the opening of its tenth ‘Ecorganic’ supermarket! The leading company in the distribution of organic products has opened a new establishment in the city of Valencia, with a sales area of 236 m2 and 9 employees. The supermarket has, among other services, its own butcher’s […]
