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27th August 2022 ‘LA TOMATINA’ ON AUGUST 31st …BLOODY GOOD FUN!
Here is a report by ‘Able’ of the ’24/7 Valencia team’ at a previous ‘La Tomatina’ festival… It was hard to believe there were going to be any tomatoes at all. The main street was rammed with muchachos and chicas, buzzing while they waited for the battle, chanting ‘‘¡Ag-ua!’’ to provoke the residents on the […]
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Music 
24th July 2022 LA TROCAMBA MATANUSCA
24/7 VALENCIA: COULD YOU YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE BAND, ‘LA TROCAMBA MATANUSCA’? LA TROCAMBA MATANUSCA: “La Trocamba Matanusca was formed at the end of 2009 in the area of Ontinyent (la Vall d’Albaida) of La Comunitat Valenciana. What happened is that a group of us, who came from other bands with a wide […]
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Art 
14th July 2022 ‘CENTRE CULTURAL LA BENEFICÈNCIA’ IN VALENCIA!
‘Centre Cultural La Beneficència’ encapsulates various museums within its spaces. It is home to the Museums of Prehistory and Ethnology and the Valencian Institute for Study and Research; it has specialist sections of Prehistory, Ethnology and Art! The ethnology museum, also now known as ‘L’ETNO’ has an exhibition that displays and describes the traditional […]
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Food 
18th June 2022 ‘FARTONS’ IN VALENCIA! BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’
When I arrived in Valencia over 20 years ago, I was not really aware that the language valenciano existed. I remember chortling to myself in a supermarket as I spied a packet of iced buns labelled ‘Fartons’. Worse, later, I even pompously wrote to the organisers of a festival suggesting they change the festival name […]
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Nightlife 
12th June 2022 La Ruta: Valencia’s Hidden Underground, Coming to the Surface
Just a day after I arrived in Valencia, my attention was drawn to a cultural movement existing here in the 80s and 90s. Labelled ‘La Ruta del Bakalao’ (also known as the Destroy Route, or simply La Ruta), this was a scene that represented many things at once: unlimited expression, the acceptance of all, and […]
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Places 
3rd June 2022 La Casa de La Mar and The Black Turtle join forces in a tasteful union
On 1st June, the new union between La Casa de La Mar and the Black Turtle was formally presented at the hamburger restaurant on Paseo de la Alameda in Valencia. Led by CEOs Hermes Mas Carrascosa (La Casa de la Mar) and Antonio Perez (The Black Turtle), they detailed a union linking gastronomy with live […]
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Food 
10th February 2021 VEGETABLE AND TARKA DAL…BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’
It’s never advisable to go trekking unprepared and certainly not in the Himalayas. Nevertheless; many moons ago, setting out from the hilltop station of Darjeeling, myself and two companions in inadequate clothing and flimsy footwear set out over the border to Nepal. After several days of trekking, we found ourselves deep in snow. Cold and […]
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Music 
24th October 2020 LA RAMBLETA 10th ANNIVERSARY…AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MANAGER LORENA PALAU
24/7 VALENCIA: What are the the roots of La Rambleta? LA RAMBLETA: That La Rambleta exists, historically speaking, is quite an achievement. It vindicates the efforts by locals of the San Marcelino barrio who, for many years, fought to have a cultural centre here. 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of La Rambleta, with the satisfaction […]
