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Welcome to Valencia!
IF YOU ARE COMING TO VALENCIA ..
NEED ACCOMMODATION? WANT TO BUY OR RENT A FLAT IN VALENCIA? ...and if you are coming and need a short-term rental or a room in some great properties at reasonable prices, let us know, - contact us at info@thisisvalencia.com - with number in party, dates and location,we'll be happy to help!
While we are on the subject of good accommodation, read our review of a delightful B+B in the gorgeous white village of Chulilla nestling high in the Serranos Mountain range just one hour's easy drive from Valencia city centre. We stayed at Casa Serena when we recently visited Chulilla for a midnight fashion show and Jazz Concert - read all about the Pasarela Joven Chulilla here.
Take a look at our new-style newsletter here, packed with information, you can sign up to receive it regularly direct to your mailbox!
Contact us here if you need more information on anything - this is our main mailbox
NEW Barbara is back with more phrasal verbs, elderly neighbours and a Bellini or two - here
There are lots of new restaurant reviews here, so you can make an informed choice about where and what to eat in the city
24/7 Valencia Magazine Get on down to Mercado de Fuencarral (mdf.es) right here in Valencia! Hippest place around full of great shops selling designery finery and a floor full of great places to eat and drink too. Right at the top is Ciné Cité, which has a great selection of films year round in Original Version(VOS). TRAILERS HERE
A NEW INTERVIEW WITH JASON WEBSTER! Gooru talks to Jason about his new book here and there are a host of new reviews in his columns
MOVIES IN ENGLISH
EXPLORE VLC - THE GUIDE
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LATEST NEWS
IT'S A SUNNY DECEMBER IN VALENCIA The weather is still great with blue skies but temperatures have dropped and it is now a little nippy in the wind! There are a host of events coming up and we will be uploading them as we get more information - so keep coming back
Christmas in the City
Circus Valencia is awash with circus this month - not as many as planned as the Ringling Bros decided to pull out after protests from animal Welfare groups. So we are down to three: Gran Circo Wonderland is at Plaza de Toros from 3 December to 17 January. Gran Circo Mundial are once again by the Puente de Flores in the riverbed 06 December to 11 January Circo Gran Fele present their latest Spectacular 'Tarzan Aqui no Sale' Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs classic adventures from 12 December to 10 January in front of the Palau de les Arts. Tickets for all are available from El Corte Inglés
Opera Film director Mariusz Trelińs directs the next Opera at the Pala de les Arts, Madame Butterfly , by the Polish Teatr Wielki of Warsaw was a huge success at La Scala premieres here on the 9 December. Subsequent performaces are on the following days 12, 15, 18, 22, 27 & 30 and 03 January. Tickets from Lesarts.com, the ticket office at the Palau or from Servientrada y Servicam
Belén - the Nativity. After the enormous success of last year's Nativity Scene in the Cathedral when over 350,000 people queued to see it, it is back from tomorrow and it is bigger and better and consists of over 2600 pieces! “La Luz del Belén en la Catedral” 02 December –06 January Free admission Valencia Cathedral Mondays-Fridays 10am to 1.30pm & 5pm to 8.30pm Sundays & holidays 11am to 1.30pm & 6pm to 8.30pm.
PopArt Takashi Murakami, the Avant-Garde Japanese artist has an exhibition of his lithographs a curious and interesting mix of traditional Japanese painting techniques and modern art. The controversial exhibition runs until 29 December at La Llotgeta of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (CAM) to the left of the Mercado Central.
STOP PRESS 01 DECEMBER 2009
There are bound to be some more surprises this month, we are always telling you that this is the land of 'Pensat i fet' (literally, think and do it!) so keep coming back to these pages for news on what's on in the city and even better, sign up to our regular newsletter here! and keep completely informed. After all, The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail reckon we are one of the best online guides to Valencia!
CONCERTS IN VALENCIA
JOSH ROUSE a little bird tells us he's playing at DUB CLUB. 23 December - hurry, buy tickets, it's a small venue
CENTRO CULTURAL DE BANCAJA After two years of travelling in the “Visions of Spain” exhibition, the works in the Hispanic Society of America’s collections have added to those owned by Bancaja in a new Sorolla exhibition MORE
ADVANCE NOTICE
AMERICAS CUP BACK ON THE WATER? It's on - it's off - it's on in the middle east - but now, maybe, just maybe, it could be back to Valencia... Read Mike O'Neill's controversial views on the latest on the 33 America's Cup. read on here |
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THISISVALENCIA Take a look at our heavily updated listings here! The listings are vastly improved. There are new sections, some already fully running and others still building, but over the next few weeks you will see them in all their glory. We have new shopping listings, all the shopping centres in and around the city, all the street markets and the days of the week they operate. All new restaurant/clubs listings with a guide to price. An out of town section, which over the next weeks and months will grow into a comprehensive guide to the towns and villages in the Valencia Community. There's a new useful information section with really useful numbers. A guide to the naughtier side of Valencia. A leisure section with listings for golf courses and Parks. There are also Gay and Lesbian Listings. And online now, a small list but building fast - Accommodation in Valencia, short let flats, B&Bs, rooms and small hotels, and in the useful info section, all about living in Valencia.If you have anything to let, rooms, apartments, houses,or have a small hotel or guest house and want to be part of this new section, check out the page and then email us for our excellent rates |
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