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Popular Festivals 6th April 2023 EASTER BY THE SEA: EXCLUSIVE ‘24/7 VALENCIA’ GUIDE TO THE RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY
By: 247valenciaMissing Las Fallas already? Fear not. Semana Santa is just around the corner! Just when you thought you’d seen the back of parades and fireworks, Valencia’s Easter celebrations are set to begin this Friday 31st March with a series of processions in the Poblats Marítims district. Surely you must know by now that Spaniards don’t […]
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Food 6th April 2023 EASTER SPECIAL! ‘TORRIJA-BRIOCHE’ WITH COCONUT ICE CREAM…BY HELEN WESTWATER OF LA OLA FRESCA
By: 247valenciaAs in many countries, traditions marked by religious public holidays go hand in hand with food. With the start of Easter, Spanish culinary delights such as Mona de Pascua, Sopa de Ajo, buñuelos and chocolate eggs, all celebrate the return of eggs and fat back on the table once more. All this after a month […]
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Popular Festivals 23rd March 2023 VALENCIA AT EASTER
By: 247valenciaIn a city whose most iconic ‘Fallas’ festival involves building hundreds of expensive and intricate sculptures, only to burn them all down simultaneously, it’s not surprising that even Easter celebrations are a little bit different in Valencia. Easter’s Semana Santa or ‘Holy Week’ is celebrated across Spain as a sombre occasion where cofradias or ‘brotherhoods’ […]
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Food 8th April 2022 Take part in the Golden Bunny Easter Hunt
By: 247valenciaBecause it is not Easter without Lindt chocolates! Swiss premium chocolate company Lindt & Sprüngli invites all the chocolate lovers to celebrate Easter by organising an Eastern Hunt with its iconic Gold Bunny and chocolate eggs and mini chocolate eggs, created specially for this time of year. Lindt Master Chocolatiers created the Golden Bunny over […]
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History 12th April 2021 ‘SAN VICENTE FERRER DAY’ 24/7 VALENCIA
By: 247valencia##The weekend following Easter is known as the Pascua de San Vicente. The first Monday after Easter Monday is San Vicente Ferrer day, which means we all get a second consecutive long weekend. San Vicente Ferrer, along with his luckless namesake San Vicente the martyr ( who was tortured and executed by the Romans and […]
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Editorial 2nd April 2021 Easter at the Beach in Valencia
By: 247valenciaAll that remains of the old Barcelona railway tracks, which used to cut off the Cabanyal and the other sea front areas from the rest of the city, are a few spaghetti western style stations in Boulevard de la Serreria. The lines now go underground but the years of separation have meant that the “Poblados […]
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