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Places 
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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Music 
11th December 2021 ‘MADAMA BUTTERFLY’ AT PALAU DE LES ARTS (VALENCIA)…DECEMBER 13th to 22nd
#24/7 VALENCIA: COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT ‘MADAMA BUTTERFLY’? PALAU DE LES ARTS: “A guileless and young Japanese woman gives up everything to marry a lieutenant in the US Navy. But when he suddenly leaves the country, she is determined to wait patiently until he sails back into harbour.” MADAMA BUTTERFLY Giacomo Puccini TICKETS: […]
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Film 
11th December 2021 AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER PABLO CALLISAYA (EXCLUSIVE 24/7 VALENCIA INTERVIEW)
#24/7 VALENCIA: Can you tell us something about your background and education and influences in filmmaking… FILMMAKER PABLO CALLISAYA: I’m the son of a Bolivian father and Swiss mother who met each other while travelling through South America. My father was a street musician and my mom back then was sort of a late hippie. […]
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Food 
9th December 2021 Valencia’s Turrón
#Turrón is the Valencia Community’s great contribution to Christmas in Spain. This year, just like every other year, there will be a little, crunchy bit of Valencia Yuletide cheer on every Spanish Christmas table. The true homelands of turrón are the towns of Alicante and Xixona (Jijona), where the sweet has been made since 1531 […]
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Music 
8th December 2021 LIVE JAZZ IN VALENCIA AT ‘JIMMY GLASS’ WITH ‘PEKKA PYLKKÄNEN 4TET’ (DECEMBER 9th)
#Thursday, 9 December 2021 / 20:30h & 22:30h **PEKKA PYLKKÄNEN 4TET**. PEKKA PYLKKÄNEN, alto / soprano saxophone ROBERTO TARENZI, piano VIKTOR NYBERG, double bass ADAM PACHE, drums 17 € one set / 25 € both sets Bookings: reservasjimmyglass@gmail.com A concert sponsored by Gente del Jimmy Glass Jazz (GJGJ) Saxophonist and composer Pekka Pylkkänen (Helsinki, 1964), […]
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Sports 
5th December 2021 VALENCIA MARATHON 2021 (REPORT)
#Nearly 16,000 runners filled the streets of Valencia to compete in the Valencia Marathon of 2021. Paco Borao, president of the SD Correcaminos and race director, assured that: “The Marathon in Valencia makes for great theatre. The main actors are the runners, this year we have managed to recover the soul of the race, the […]
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BOOKS 
4th December 2021 VALENCIA CUISINE (BOOKS)…’ARROCES Y MUCHO MÁS’
#24/7 VALENCIA : COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE NEW BOOK, ‘ARROCES Y MUCHO MÁS’? DRASSANA BOOK PUBLISHERS: ‘ARROCES Y MUCHO MÁS’ is not just a book of recipes, although it has a lot of them, 92 in total. Above all, it is a manual to take the love we Valencians have for cooking […]
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History 
3rd December 2021 The signposting of the ‘Way of the Holy Grail’ in Ciutat Vella (Valencia) has begun…
##The ‘Asociación Cultural El Camino del Santo Grial’ has started to mark the route of the path in Ciutat Vella (Valencia) through a very simple signposting…accompanied by happy helpers. It has been 20 years since civil society began to work to mark this route and, after two decades in silence, thanks to the sponsorship of […]
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Art 
2nd December 2021 Art exhibition until December 3rd…”The Holy Grail, the untold story” (Valencia)
#On Monday 29th November the exhibition “The Holy Grail, the untold story” was inaugurated in the magnificent Casal Fallero in Pz. de la Merced in Ciutat Vella of Valencia. The Falla is 150 years old and is hosting this graphic exhibition in its casal. Panels visually narrate the main contributions to the state of the […]
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Places 
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. […]
