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The third edition of MTV Winter has offered great music last weekend. With the Arctic Monkeys on the top, the MTV Winter Valencia held at the City of Arts and Sciences has been a real success.

BMW ORACLE Racing, the American challenger, representing the Golden Gate Yacht Club, won the 33rd America’s Cup Match on Sunday in Valencia, sweeping past the Swiss defender, Alinghi, to a 2-0 victory.
This was an historic race for the oldest trophy in international sport, featuring two of the most innovative boats on the planet. BMW ORACLE Racing’s trimaran, USA, powered by the largest wing sail ever built, proved to be the faster of the two multihulls, overpowering Alinghi’s catamaran in both races.
Today marks the culmination of the San Francisco team’s 10-year …

It could be third time lucky for Race 1 of this 33rd America’s Cup.
There is an air of promise prevailing around the bases this morning as the overnight strong wind appear to have dropped away.
At 0900hrs there was no sign of the AP flag and so that means they will head to the race area and try for a start, no earlier than a midday start.
Alinghi docked out at 0845hrs local time this morning in perfect sunshine and a light 5-6 knots breeze around the Marina Juan Carlos 1 and …

MTV Winter Festival will be on Saturday at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia with a lineup headed by the British band Arctic Monkeys and the most advanced audiovisual technology to offer a high quality performance.
This free concert will also feature performances of the Valencian Fuzzy White Casters, Lightspeed Champion and Mystery Jets, who will take the stage located in the Museo Principe Felipe.
MTV organizers highlighted the interest and desire to “innovate” in each edition and therefore this time they’ll use Red One camera to record the concert …

One again Valencia is immersed in the preparations for its most international festivity: “Las Fallas”. From 15th to 19th March, the city is transformed into an explosion of colours, aromas, magic and joy. Spring is about to begin and the city’s festivities extend their warmest welcome.
From March 1st the smell of gunpowder seizes the city with its “mascletaes”, musical explosions that shake the bones of even the calmest spectators, whilst as of 15th March the city’s streets play host for four intense days to more than 700 satirical monuments . 

Between 10th and 21st February, and under the slogan “Reality and
Fiction”, the VEO Festival will celebrate its 8th edition. The event
allows young artists to create their own productions that explore
the creative process and create new theatrical languages. The
main role is interpreted by the urban areas in which the artists’
works are contextualized. Thus, Valencian Gabi Ochoa will
represent his work, Mi camiseta, tus vaqueros sus zapatos, at the
IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) and Campanar
Market. Benicalap Park will be the setting of Les gûmes, in which
mutant creatures will build a new world. …

The 33rd edition of the America’s Cup, the world’s oldest sailing competition, will be held in Valencia from 8th February. However, the sporting and cosmopolitan atmosphere will disembark in the city a few days before that. On the 5th February there will be a welcome party for the whole America’s Cup family, the official competition dinner will be on the 6th and on the 7th the opening ceremony will take place with a mascletà (firecracker) display by the Caballer pyrotechnics company. The Swiss from the Alinghi team and the North …