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February 2009

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26 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 1,284 views
Las Fallas: the most expensive figure ever created is being planted

There are only 18 days left for the plantá of the monuments and the Falla Nou Campanar has started to plant its gigantic monument.
The ambitious project continues to record breaking numbers, both in the number of his figures and in the budget estimated at 900,000 euros, the most expensive figure in history, despite the economic crisis.
Since the size of the monument is enormous, 29 meters high, the artist Julio Monterrubio, has begun the preparations with which he aims to achieve the first prize in the Special Section.

General Information. Leisure. Top 10 Valencia. Travel

26 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 668 views
New route from Valencia to Ibiza

Baleària shipping service will open a new line from Valencia to Ibiza. This route will be operated tomorrow by the Martín i Soler ferry, which will operate twice a week. However, the company will increase the number of travels during the Easter and holidays in May.
The new Martín i Soler ferry has been the latest addition to the Baleària fleet. This vessel represents a new concept of traveling by ferry because it offers more services for customers, in addition to being faster and more efficient from an energy point of …

Featured. General Information. Headline. Leisure. Music. Special Events

25 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 861 views
Franz Ferdinand highlights MTV Winter free festival

Last night Franz Ferdinand have turned the City of Arts and Sciences into a large dance floor with their best pop-rock, dazzling 38,000 people who attended the second festival of the MTV Winter in Valencia.
30,000 spectators packed the area between the Science Museum and L’Hemisfèric and 8000 followed the concert in the adjacent gardens. The Valencian night was tinged with elegance and partying with the spectacle offered by the band led by Alex Kapranos.

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23 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 1,361 views
Roman findings change the history of Valencia

The old biscuit factory in Río de Paterna hid under its buildings an unexpected discovery: a Roman village, dated between the centuries I and III A.C., giving a total turnaround in the history of the city and becoming the first Roman ruins in a place inhabited from Valencia to Llíria.
In an area of 5000 square meters, archaeologists have found over the 28 days digging, some baths, two small children buried in the interior of a house or a counterweight to oil press, called torcularium which suggests that it was a …

Fallas. Featured. General Information. Headline. Special Events

23 Feb 2009 | One Comment | 1,220 views
Las Fallas: The Cridà and the first Mascletà

Las Fallas are the most popular street festivals in Europe and yesterday they were officially inaugurated in Valencia.
Last night, around 45,000 falleros vibrated with the words of the Valencia Mayoress Rita Barberá and the Falleras Mayores (festival queens) Marta Agustín and María Berbel.
This year, the traditional act of the Cridá, originated in 1931, had a peculiar innovation. It was supported by an aerial acrobatic show with giant balloons accompanied by lights, images and smoke.

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20 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 616 views
The Science Museum hosts the “Darwin Now” exhibition

In collaboration with the British Council.
The Science Director of the City of Arts and Sciences, Manuel Toharia, pointed out today that the publication 150 years ago of “The Origin of the Species” by Charles Darwin was “a landmark, one of the great leaps forward on which human knowledge is based and which allowed all later scientists to make further progress in the study of life and its evolution throughout history”.

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20 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 982 views
The purest Woody Allen comes to Valencia with “Adulterios”

A famous psychoanalyst in New York, married to a handsome lawyer, finds out he’s cheating on her. Facing the situation, she turns to her best friend for advice but, as she soon realises, this woman has a secret, too.
Adulterios, a play based on a short play by Woody Allen, marks Verónica Forqué’s debut as a director. It’s an amusing play on adulterers’ blunders, based on Woody Allen’s one-act play Central Park West, published with two more short plays on adultery.