Music, dance and delicious ‘comida Española’ await visitors at this year’s Edinburgh ‘A Taste of Spain’, ensuring everyone will be whisked away for a day to the UK’s favourite holiday destination.
The free festival will take place at The Mound in the heart of Edinburgh and will be supported by the Spanish Tourist Office, Jet2.com and Jet2Holidays.com. There will be various Spanish regions taking part, all illustrating the flair and diversity of Spanish culture with giant paellas, flamenco dancers and even Spanish bagpipes, with musicians bravely putting their bagpipe skills to …

Since 1953, Valencia has enjoyed the privilege of being the only city in the world with a Lladró Museum, which is housed in a spectacular 100,000 square metre complex in which all the brands creations are brought to life. Entry is free to this world of luxury and fantasy and guided tours are available in 7 languages.
The collection consists of unique works of great value that are arranged in chronological order in order to allow visitors to follow the evolution of the brand up to the present today. The museum …

The Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) presents From Gaudí to Picasso, an exhibition featuring over a hundred works including drawings, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, from different museums, foundations and private collections.
From Gaudí to Picasso focuses on the early work of Picasso and Julio González, two multi-faceted artists who completed their training during the Modernist period and who went on to occupy prominent positions in the history of 20th Century painting and sculpture.

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. …

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 …

When we are tourists, it’s a good idea to have a guide or some guidelines about the places we can visit there and other useful information on timetables and closing days. The official website of Valencia Tourism Convention Bureau offers, among other services, a digital tourist guide to download.
This guide covers a wide range of cultural and leisure activities. Valencian cuisine, exhibitions, festivals, shows, sporting events, guided tours, places to go shopping, where to go out at night and much more, all you need to know to spend a …

As we have come to expect since 1981,  Sala Parpalló showcases the work of the artists awarded the  Alfons Roig visual arts scholarships. Widely regarded as one of the most important grants in the  Valencian Community, not only for its reputation as a distinction supporting the tradition of the new in  all its manifestations as well as the recognised quality of the works by the winning artists, but also for  the prestige of its jury members who, year after year,  evaluate the quality of the artists.