In “Spain … on the road again”, Gwyneth is in heaven as the road trip heads to Valencia, a paella lover’s paradise. She regales Mario with the story of her first trip to Spain as the two share a beachside walk and talk.
Meanwhile, Mark and Claudia tour Santiago Calatrava’s futuristic City of Arts and Sciences. Gwyneth and Mario cook paella with a Zen Master in the Albufera, the epicenter of rice in Spain. The foursome is reunited over a dinner of unforgettable tapas at local favorite, Casa Montaña. Then, the …

MANGO and Glamour team up to organise a big party, the Glamour Shopping Night!  The event will take place in Valencia on 1 October and will last from eight o’clock in the afternoon until twelve o’clock at night.

The first Valencia Open 500 will feature six players from the World’s Top Ten and eleven from the Top Twenty.  The tournament will be held at the City of Arts and Sciences from 31st October to 8th November.   
With a month and a half still to go before the start of the tournament, the official list of participating players has been announced.  The line-up for the first Valencia Open 500 features six players from the ATP Top Ten: Andy Murray (3), Andy Roddick (6), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (7), Nikolay Davydenko (8), Fernando Verdasco …

From 21 to 25 September Karpov and Kasparov will be in Valencia celebrating the silver anniversary of their first legendary encounter.
Chess lovers can enjoy a passionate exhibition contest of 12 matches between two geniuses of the chess board, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, in Valencia. The chosen venue for this great duel is the Palau de les Arts which, for five intense days, will bear witness to the great rivalry between the two players.

The Association of Designers of the Region of Valencia (ADCV) has created Valencia Disseny Week (VDW), which will take place from 21 to 26 September 2009. An event of events, with the purpose of promoting design.

Valencia will host the second edition of “Crea Orxata 09″ next September 30, in which three distinguished Michelin-starred chefs experiment with the potential of the Valencian horchata and groundnut.
Chefs Bernd Knöller (Restaurante Riff), Jorge Breton, (Vertical and La Sucursal) , and Alejandro del Toro, (Restaurante Alejandro del Toro), will check the applications of these traditional products from Valencia on the cuisine.

How would you feel about your best friend if he suddenly did something so colossally stupid, it made you doubt the very basis of the friendship? It happens in Yasmina Reza’s monster international hit, Art, now performed in Teatro Olympia in Valencia.
Art concerns the cataclysmic effect on three friends, Sergio, Marcos, and Ivan, when Sergio purchases an expensive work of abstract art: a large painting consisting of white lines on a white canvas. As the three men engage in an ongoing debate over the value of the painting, emotions run …