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BOOKS 
16th April 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS DOLORES GARCÍA (EXCLUSIVE ‘24/7 VALENCIA’ INTERVIEW)
24/7 Valencia:Tell us something about your background and education. Dolores García: I was born in the 1960s in Melilla, a Spanish city in North Africa. It is a small, cosmopolitan city that is located off the coast of Malaga and Granada. It has been Spanish for more than 500 years, at the request of the […]
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Places 
12th April 2020 CHURCH OF SAN NICOLÁS…BAROQUE TREASURES IN THE HEART OF THE CARMEN
Hidden at the end of a little passageway marked “Parroquia de San Nicolás”, about halfway down C/ Caballeros amongst the tourist trap bars and ‘authentic’ bodegas, is one of the city’s greatest art treasures. The dazzling Baroque frescoes at the Church of San Nicolás have recently been restored to their former glory and are now […]
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Food 
11th April 2020 VALENCIA WINES, CAVAS AND MORE… APRIL 2020
Sadly, tastings have come to a total halt for the time being but we have some wines from the last events before lockdown to share with you this month. Wine can still be delivered from specialists by courier. The first four wines are from outside the Valencian Community. We start this months’ column with a […]
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Music 
8th April 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…TESA
Rapper Tesa debut album ‘Al-Tesa’ defends the Valencian language & culture and criticizes gender inequality… This is the first solo album of MC Tesa of the Valencian group ‘El Delito’. TESA brings us a fresh rap album, rather different and totally influenced by Valencian culture. It shows us a different kind of music … a […]
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Editorial 
6th April 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC… JOSH ROUSE ‘LOVE IN THE MODERN AGE’ (EXCLUSIVE REPORT & INTERVIEW)
The ‘24/7 Valencia’ team were fortunate enough to catch a rousing live set by indie superstar Josh Rouse at the intimate ‘Centro Excursionista’ of Valencia… Josh along with the local 4-piece band was musically tight and impressive, especially when they stretched out the groove to the firm approval of the indie crowd of familiar faces […]
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Editorial 
5th April 2020 STREAMING VALENCIA OPERA (PALAU LES ARTS) FROM HOME
Les Arts broadcasts through its website its production of the tetralogy ‘El anillo del Nibelungo.’ – Zubin Mehta, on the podium, and Carlus Padrissa, from La Fura dels Baus, in the staging, direct the most awarded production of Les Arts… – Les Arts reminds you that each title will be available for viewing for a […]
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Sports 
4th April 2020 VALENCIA FOOTBALL (APRIL 2020)…WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
In January, Valencia fans were optimistic about the year to come. Fighting for European recognition and trophies on three fronts, all associated with the club felt this year could at least match the success of 2019… when Marcelino and his team had given the supporters the Copa Del Rey. Very soon, a determined Granada side […]
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Music 
30th March 2020 LES ARTS FOR EVERYBODY (STREAMING OPERA)
Les Arts begins a cycle of ‘streaming’ with its most successful opera productions – Thanks to the collaboration of Unitel, the theatre’s website will allow you to enjoy free recordings such as ‘Turandot’ or ‘El anillo del Nibelungo’. – Verdi’s ‘Otello’, directed by Zubin Mehta and Gregory Kunde in the title role, opens the Les […]
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Sports 
27th March 2020 VALENCIA FOOTBALL…A BUSY FEW WEEKS
As the local sports journalist Kike Mateu is one of the first cases to confirm positive for the Coronavirus in Valencia, the premier football club in this city are themselves struggling to ward off a losing bug that has seen them fall to defeats in the last four away matches. Mateu who is regularly seen […]
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Health 
26th March 2020 STRETCHING
As Michael Caine once said, and not a lot of people know this, from when you get up in the morning to when you go to bed at night you can lose a couple of centimetres in height. You relax and stretch in bed and browbeaten during the day you finish up the day shorter. […]
