2009 was the first year of Extravalencia and we are very glad to say that it was very successful regarding its acceptance whithin the travelling related groups. During this year we published lots of posts broadening our areas of interest, art, sport, theatre, interesting initiatives, unique places, and all kind of information to make tourists’ stay an enjoyable and unforgetable one!
We truly appreciate the readers, for their attention, ideas, emails, tweets, retweets, and links over the past year. We have tried our best to offer useful and interesting articles so …

The emblematic building Veles e Vents is offering until 30 December, the “Marina Christmas Jazz,” a series of four concerts with Christmas touch under the direction of renowned guitarist from Valencia, Ximo Tébar.
Performances will take place at 20.30 hours in the lobby of the Veles e Vents building, and are free and open access; the capacity is limited to 250 people.

One day at the Central Market in Valencia, the music starts to sound among the stalls of fruits and vegetables. Excerpts from Verdi’s La Traviata performed in the middle of shoppers. Astonished at the magic of art, the faces of the guests make us regain trust in the good taste. The taste of good fruit, vegetables, champagne, music and life.

Ryanair, one of the world’s favourite airline, announced that it will add one new Boeing 737-800 aircraft and open a new route from its Bournemouth base to Valencia twice a week from 2nd April 2010.
Other new routes are from Bournemouth to Fuerteventura, Ibiza and Malta
Ryanair’s Lesley Kane, Head of Sales and Marketing, said:
“Bournemouth today celebrates its 2nd Ryanair based aircraft, four new routes to Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Malta and Valencia and increased frequencies on three other routes to Alicante, Malaga and Palma from late March 2010. These new flights go on …

Shadows Must Dance is an exhibition project by Bernardi Roig, one of the most important exponents of the current Spanish art scene. It will be at the Modern Art Museum (IVAM) until 31 January 2010.
The exhibition Shadows Must Dance presents a selection of works in the last five years. These works are a continuation of the tissue of reflection that Bernardí Roig has developed about excess of light, blindness, the impossibility of looking, disagreement and invisibility and their metaphors.
Aluminium, bronze or polyester resin sculptures, made from casts of people from …

Seven architects, six archaelogists and 133 restorers are the protagonists of a €11,235,000 Exhibition called “The Glory of Baroque”.
The Light of the Images Valencian Region Foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary by returning to the place it started from ten years ago when it set out on its mission to recover, restore and disseminate the Region’s historical and artistic heritage. Its new exhibition, “The Glory of the Baroque”, is set in the city of Valencia.

Today we’re devoting this post to a very interesting tourist guide around Valencia. Valencia History Tour is a theatrical tour through the historic center of the city by a character from the early seventeenth century, inspired by a man named Jerome Valeriola who did exist really.
This ghost who was unjustly hanged, and has been raised “again” after 100 years to show the city to “any stranger or whoever wants to”. As his last time was 100 years ago, he teaches what he had known about those times and a his …