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10th September 2021 MENORCA GROOVE FESTIVAL (SEP 17-19)
##From September 17 to September 19, 2021, the ‘Menorca Groove festival’ will be taking place for the fifth time at Es Claustre in Mahon, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. The festival is brought by the organisers of the Formentera Jazz Festival and the people behind the space in ‘Es Claustre’. Described as a ‘Perpetual motion, just […]
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Music 
6th September 2021 43rd ‘FESTIVAL ENSEMS’ SEPT 15-26 (Comunidade Valenciana)
##The Valencian Institute of Culture presented the 43rd edition of the Ensems Festival. This will include Symphonic music, Avant-Garde ensembles, Street Performances and more… The Valencian Institute of Culture has presented the programme of the 43rd edition of the Ensems Festival, which was held from 7 to 16 May and will continue from 15 to […]
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1st September 2021 ‘MAR i JAZZ’ POSTPONED TO JUNE 2022 DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS
##Mar i Jazz Festival Management: We regret to inform you that the ‘Mar i Jazz 2021 festival’ scheduled for the 17th, 18th and 19th of September is postponed due to the impossibility to hold it in the conditions that the organisation and the public would like. Due to the current COVID restrictions in the province […]
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31st August 2021 WHAT IS FALLAS?
##This is what the city’s residents say; condensed for you by David Rhead and Jose Marín… The smell of cordite and the sizzle and crack of rockets. The smell of Buñuelos frying in the middle of the night. The smell of the Plaza de la Virgen carpeted with Spring flowers at four o’clock in the […]
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31st August 2021 FALLAS TIMETABLE 2021
Tuesday, 31st August 10.30 am – Reading of the ‘people’s verdict’ and proclamation of the Ninot Indultat Infantil (the only children’s figure saved from burning) for 2021. 11.00 am – Choosing of ninots by the committees until 8.00 pm. Wednesday, 1st September 08.00 am – Plantà (set-up) of all the children’s fallas (sculptures). 10.00 am […]
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29th August 2021 A Fallas conversation between a Tourist and a Valencian!
Brian: Wasn’t that ‘Fallas’ in ‘Mission Impossible II’, in that scene when Tom Cruise’s character is in Spain? I love all that fire dancing and those evil-looking hoods. Viçent: What are you talking about? That was just a ridiculous juxtaposition of Fallas and the Holy Week celebrations. I ask you! Falleras and Nazerenes all mixed […]
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18th August 2021 WHAT DO THE VALENCIANS THINK OF FALLAS?
##Daniel Sanchez has been a fallero for over twenty years in Falla Seneca-Poeta Mas y Ros, one of the hundreds of smaller neighbourhood fallas dotted around the city. What do the Fallas mean for you? -Fallas for me is a traditional festival where you get the chance to get together and enjoy yourself with your […]
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17th August 2021 FALLAS…THE INSIDE DEAL BY FALLAS VETERANS
MASCLETÀ Daytime fireworks are a very Valencian contribution to the world of pyrotechnics. Forget about pretty pictures in the sky, this is all about noise, rhythm, the smell of gunpowder and having your bones thoroughly shaken by the ferocious aural assault of the finale. All this under blue spring skies, amongst a huge and expectant […]
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17th August 2021 LAS FALLAS (2021) FROM SEPTEMBER 1st – SEPTEMBER 5th!
##They’re back! Between September 1, 2021, and September 5, 2021, ‘Las Fallas’ festivities will once again commence in Valencia. After being cancelled in 2020 and delayed in March this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, has announced that there will be a Las Fallas festival, albeit on […]
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16th August 2021 THE MARCHING BANDS OF FALLAS: UNION MUSICAL
They play in the pasacalles, the ofrenda and even at half time at Mestalla… The marching bands that make Fallas what it is The first time you experience Fallas, amongst the sensory overload of the thunderous fireworks, the colourfully crazy fallas monuments and the crowded streets, one of the things that stays with you is […]
