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Editorial 
24th February 2021 VALENCIAN ACADEMIC & CO-WRITER DR MAFÉ WINS ‘BEST PAPER’ AWARD AT SCIENCE & TOURISM CONFERENCE IN SPAIN
Nazca: the green desert presented by Dr. Mafé and Carlos E. Hermida wins Best Paper in Cordoba. Spain. The academic article has been awarded as the best research paper at the VII International Scientific and Professional Congress on Cultural Tourism in Cordoba. Considered by some to be one of the greatest discoveries of the century, […]
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Art 
23rd February 2021 ART IN VALENCIA … ‘OFICINA ESOUND’
##The Esound Music & Arts agency, responsible for events and concerts by artists such as Chano Domínguez, Carmen Consoli, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Martirio, opens its physical headquarters with the artistic curatorial project Oficina Esound, which consists of inviting established artists to create an installation at the agency’s headquarters, located in the Ruzafa neighbourhood. -Valencian artist […]
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History 
23rd February 2021 TANKS FOR THE MEMORY
For those of us living in Spain today, democracy is a given and pretty much unmoveable. The dark, dull days of dictatorship seem a long way off. However, if some dangerously deluded bright sparks had got their way on 23 February 1981, things might have been a whole lot different and at the centre of […]
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Food 
21st February 2021 ‘FLAPJACKS’ BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’
##Known as flapjacks in the UK and granola, cereal or muesli bars in other countries, whatever you call them they are impossible to resist. “The flap is back” is the cry of glee by those working at ‘La Ola Fresca’ when flapjacks appear and, strangely, they seem to disappear as fast as they are made… […]
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Music 
21st February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…THE HARP AND EVE MATIN (INTERVIEW)
24/7 VALENCIA: TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND MUSICAL EDUCATION… EVE MATIN: I come from a Persian family but I grew up in Peru. Despite the fact that no one in my family is a musician, I was mysteriously attracted to the harp. I started as a classical harpist and did most of the […]
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Editorial 
20th February 2021 VALENCIA HISTORY…TWO MEN CALLED LUIS
##Despite the prejudices of the time, two Valencians of Jewish origin ended up playing a key role in renaissance Europe. One of them, Luis Vives, a true Renaissance man and fifteenth century Zelig (the bloke got everywhere) helped to develop the ideas that formed modern Europe. The other, Luis de Santangel, was instrumental in the […]
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Art 
19th February 2021 SUCCESS OF ‘THE WAY OF THE HOLY GRAIL’ AT THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-PROFESSIONAL CONGRESS ON CULTURAL TOURISM IN CORDOBA (SPAIN)
##More than 170 researchers from 70 universities around the world will participate this year in the VII International Scientific-Professional Congress of Cultural Tourism in Cordoba (Spain), an activity that takes place from Wednesday, February 17th to Friday, February 19th in a virtual format, where various studies of the new post-coronavirus future will be present. Link […]
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Sports 
17th February 2021 VALENCIA FOOTBALL….LUIS RUBIALES AT LEVANTE UD (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FROM ARCHIVES)
##Luis Rubiales or “Rubi”to his teammates finally knows what it is to experience football in La Primera at 27 years old and after undergoing various ups and downs in his career. The left-back, who hails from Motril in the province of Granada, feels that the various knock-backs he has suffered have served only to enhance […]
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Music 
16th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… XIMO TEBAR
Legendary Valencian guitarist Ximo Tebar has been offered a teaching post at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). He received an invitation from UCLA Global Jazz Studies to participate in a call for applications for the position of lecturer in “Advanced Jazz Guitar Performance”, he applied and was selected. XIMO TEBAR: The truth is that […]
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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 […]
