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:
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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 …

The Town Hall Square will receive seven sculptures by Rodin from the 2nd of November to the 13th of December
The thinker, a naked man 1.84 metres tall, sitting on a rock and curling his toes, is the French artist Auguste Rodin’s iconic work and will greet pedestrians as they enter the Town Hall Square. Exhibited alongside him are six other sculptures, The Burghers of Calais, which form part of the monument commemorating the heroism of the citizens of Calais during the attack on the city by the English in 1347. …

Last Friday was Fernando Alonso’s first working day at Maranello and today, there is more good news for all Ferrari fans. They will be able to welcome the Ferrari neophyte next Sunday in Valencia, where for the first time, the Ferrari World Finals, the event which traditionally brings to a close the Maranello marque’s racing season, takes place outside Italy.
“We are pleased that Fernando will be able to attend what, for us, is a very important event,” said Stefano Domenicali. “It will be a great opportunity for all our fans …

With a special free practice session, which allowed the participants to gain confidence on the track, the Ferrari World Finals, the Prancing Horse’s traditional event at the end of the motorsport season, started at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit.
Since 1994, the first year the World Finals were held, this extraordinary event leaves Italy and is held in Spain to greet the fans under a sunny sky with temperatures of almost 30°C and the Comunitat Valenciana’s generous hospitality.

In a letter written today to New York Supreme Court Justice Kornreich following the unsuccessful discussions with the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), the America’s Cup Defender, Société Nautique de Genève (SNG), has confirmed that it will conduct a Deed of Gift Match with GGYC in February 2010 in Valencia, which is the date and venue repeatedly requested by GGYC and previously ordered by the Court. SNG has also expressed its intention to publish the 33rd America’s Cup Notice of Race with immediate effect.
When SNG’s first choice of venue, Ras …

Tomorrow at noon Valencia’s Paseo de la Alameda will turn into a catwalk for Ferrari. This is a preview of what will happen during the four days at the World Finals, the traditional end-of-the-season festivities, this year for the first time held at the Ricardo Tormo di Cheste circuit, from 12 to 15 November.‬
The main road in the city centre will be shut down for traffic to host the exceptional parade of the cars with the Prancing Horse, lead by the F2008, the Constructors’ Championship car from 2008, driven by …

What better way to explore Valencia than riding a comfortable bike all along its interesting and charming places? Cyclotourism offers a different experience to discover a city and meet new people, as well.
Valencia is totally flat and there are cycle paths on most sidewalks. By next Christmas, the city of Valencia will have a network of bicycle routes of almost 130 km., which are distributed among bike paths, cycle-streets, and some areas “shared” with pedestrians.

Valencia has won the second prize of the world’s most admired city in knowledge management, which annually grant the international entities World Capital Institute and Teleos, just behind the English city of Manchester.
MAKCi Awards 2009 (Most Admired Knowledge Cities) will be delivered during the second summit ‘Knowledge Cities’, to be held in Shenzhen (China), from 5 to 7 November.
The MAKCI Exercise can be defined as a “knowledge-based initiative whose
contribution to innovation depends largely on human imagination and creativity
and the knowledge assets available at a point in time and context”.
This is …

Bioparc project for the development and welfare of its gorillas is still being completed. So far, they had a breeding group of gorillas, made up of Mambi, a male silverback, together with the females Dorl and Fossey. Right next to these, in Bioparc there is one space for the group of single male gorillas, where is Jitu, the oldest of all the male silverback. Recently, Bioparc received two young gorillas to be incorporated in this group, Kabuli, who arrived from Germany last week and Thomas, who has come from the …