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28th March 2024 SEMANA SANTA MARINERA (VALENCIA) 2024
“Walking through Valencia this week, you may catch a sight that might cause you to look again. Donned in what’s known as a ‘capirote’, the pointed hood bears a striking resemblance to the KKK. The capirote predates the 20th Century and is worn by penitents during the Holy Week (Semana Santa) in Spain in order […]
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Popular Festivals 
23rd March 2024 VALENCIA AT EASTER
In 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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Sports 
23rd August 2023 THE AUTONOMOUS BEACH SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP IN SANTA POLA!
Santa Pola was the scene, last weekend, of the II Autonomous Championship of Beach Sprint 2023, organised by the Rowing Federation of the Valencian Community together with the Club Náutico Santa Pola. A hundred athletes, belonging to eight different clubs from the Levantine coast, came together in an event that took place in a knockout […]
