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 …

Instead of the traditional, individual pre-season launches, for 2010 Formula One teams are looking to arrange one large event at which they will present their new cars together. Although their plans are yet to be finalised, it is understood the joint unveiling will be held in Valencia at the end of January, shortly before the first pre-season tests.
Mercedes-Benz GP chief executive Nick Fry said: “It is going to be hugely innovative. It is going to be a clear demonstration of how we are going to be working together.”
It is understood …

Next Wednesday “La luz del Belén en la Catedral” (The Light of the Nativity at the Cathedral) will be exposed for the Christmas festivities until 6 January. Following the success of last year, when it was visited by 350,000 people, this year it is expected to beat its own record.
This monumental representation of the birth of Jesus and Bethlehem includes over 600 pieces and 2,000 animals of different sizes. One of the new figures of this year is an elephant measuring 60 cm wide by 65 cm tall. The Nativity …

The colorful and avant-garde art of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be seen in Valencia until next December 29. His lithographs, which fuse traditional Japanese painting techniques with groundbreaking modern art can be seen in the exhibition hall La Llotgeta of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (CAM).
Known as the Japanese Andy Warhol, his unique style has created a new genre which also gives name to the Superflat exhibition, whose title refers to “the fact that the pictorial space in his work is literally flat as can be read …

Thanks to Google Earth, we can enjoy fantastic views of the city of Valencia in 3D.
If you want to see some impressive buildings in Valencia, we recommend flying down to these places:
City of Arts and Sciences (open kmz file)
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Either Google Earth or Bing Maps of Microsoft offer us better ways to explore breathtaking cities, which is also the case of Valencia. Now it’s possible to enjoy fantastic views of the city in 3D or in a more detailed view as if it were a bird’s eyes …

Valencia is the point of departure for the first sailing 2.0 around the world. Ocean Venture is a sailing trip around the world, combining high-level nautical sport with the most unique travel destinations of the planet including those with the highest difficulty that may face a sailor.
Jose Carlos Corral and Enrique Fenollosa will be the sailmen of ‘Ocean Venture’ during two years. The experience will be broadcasted through internet using the latest technologies 2.0
The term “2.0″ comes from the term “Web 2.0″ which refers to a new generation of websites …

Valencia has been voted unanimously by the European Capitals of Sport Association to be the European Capital of Sport in 2011. Other candidates for this award were Birmingham, Barcelona, Budapest and Brussels.
The European Capital of Sports Award is an incentive for local administrations and their sport departments to fulfil a fundamental and decisive role in the making of the fabric that contributes to improving the general level of health of the inhabitants in a country, through the culture of healthy and physical exercise. Its tasks consist in the formulation of sport …