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Food 
16th February 2021 Red Valentine Beetroot Soup
By Helen Westwater of ‘La Ola Fresca’ This month’s recipe combines the earthy red of beetroot and the pure white of coconut milk with a heady mix of spices, to steer off any last winter colds and cheer the hearts of any lost Valentinos. Beetroot, happily a vegetable that is available all year in […]
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wines 
13th February 2021 SIX WINES FROM VALENCIA AND SEVEN CHAMPAGNES
This month we look at six wines from DO Valencia and seven Champagnes from Taittinger. DO Valencia. DO Valencia covers the parts of the province not covered by DO Utiel-Requena and DO Cava. Alicante and Castellon have their own controlling bodies. It is split into a number of sub-zones which cover the area from Xativa […]
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Editorial 
13th February 2021 NEW ‘LINDT NUXOR’ CHOCOLATE IN VALENCIA!
24/7 VALENCIA: COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR ‘LINDT’ CHOCOLATES FOR 2021? LINDT: Lindt & Sprüngli launches NUXOR, its new brand of chocolates for 2021. They are the chocolates with the highest percentage of hazelnuts on the market. – This new brand from Lindt has two varieties, milk chocolate and dark chocolate gianduia with […]
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Art 
12th February 2021 ART IN VALENCIA… “JUAN USLÉ” AT ‘BOMBAS GENS’ (UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2021)
##24/7 Valencia: Could you tell us more about this new exhibition? BOMBAS GENS: “The Fundació Per Amor a l’Art (FPAA) has presented this morning, at Bombas Gens Art Centre, the exhibition “Juan Uslé. Eye and landscape”. The exhibition offers “a unique opportunity” to look at an exceptional group of works that are the result of […]
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Food 
12th February 2021 20 NEW CHEESES IN VALENCIA AT ‘LIDL’ (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)
##24/ VALENCIA: COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR NEW CHEESES IN VALENCIA? LIDL: After sweeping away its own brand of Spanish cheeses awarded at the World Cheese Awards 2018 and 2019 and the International Cheese Awards 2019. Lidl launches “La Quesería de Lidl”: a new selection of Spanish and international gourmet cheeses under 2.50 […]
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wines 
12th February 2021 A LOOK AT THE NEW WINES FROM ‘VICENTE GANDIA’ …PIONEER OF QUALITY WINES FROM THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY
Bodegas Vicente Gandía was founded well over 100 years ago. Then, their main interest was exporting wines from their premises in the ‘Grao’ in Valencia, founded during the golden age of the railway when transporting wines from Utiel-Requena and elsewhere took off. More lately, they moved a lot of their operations to the giant plant […]
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Food 
12th February 2021 NEW RANGE OF ‘LINDT CHOCOLATE’ IN VALENCIA (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)
##24/7 VALENCIA: COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT LINDT CHOCOLATE IN SPAIN? LINDT CHOCOLATE: “Lindt EXCELLENCE completes its range of high percentage tablets with 100% cocoa. Made only with pure cocoa and no added sugars – This is the most gourmet tablet, with a strong and aromatic cocoa flavor. Designed for purists to enjoy a […]
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Music 
12th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… FRANCISCO TÁRREGA “FATHER OF THE CLASSICAL GUITAR”
ORIGINS: “Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, (VALENCIAN COMMUNITY) Spain. It is said that Francisco’s father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father’s guitar and attempt […]
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Editorial 
11th February 2021 THE VALENCIAN BEER BRAND ‘AMSTEL’ LAUNCHES A MESSAGE OF SUPPORT BY DECORATING ITS ESTABLISHMENTS AND HANDING OUT PRODUCT
##Amstel ‘Made in Valencia’ joins the Heineken® initiative to continue supporting bars with #FUERZABAR through their shutters. There are bars in the city in which the brewery has intervened their shutters and blinds to fill them with motivational phrases, which seek to encourage professionals and customers of the hospitality industry, but also to serve as […]
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Music 
11th February 2021 NEW ALBUM OUT! WHEN ‘DEACON BLUE’ PLAYED VALENCIA (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!)
##Scotland’s Deacon Blue have just released a new album, “Riding On The Tide Of Love”. It contains eight new songs (the title track was the lead single in November 2020) and the band’s singer Ricky Ross has commented: “When we released ‘City Of Love’ last March we celebrated it being number 1 in Scotland and […]
