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- News Digest | Teachers Strike Month Two
Pont de València Valencia News | Teachers’ Strike Month Two, Festival de Les Arts Cancelled & Flamingos vs. the Rice Fields Monday, 8 June 2026 Bon dia! In Valencia news, the teacher strike enters its fifth week with no agreement in sight, as the visible heart of the protest — the sit-in at Plaza Virgen… - Weekend Digest | Corpus Christi 2026
Pont de València Weekend Digest | Corpus Christi, Open Art Events & Park Concerts Weekend Edition · Thu 29 May – Sun 1 Jun · Published Thursday, 29 May 2026 Buen finde! This Valencia weekend marks 700 years of Corpus Christi — La Festa Grossa — with processions, giant puppets, costumed dances, and the city’s… - News Digest Strikes in June
Pont de València Valencia News | Teacher and Metrovalencia Strikes Set to Continue Monday, 1 June 2026 Bon dia! The teacher’s strike is set to continue this week as government negotiators have yet to reach an agreement with unions – just in time to join the resumed Metrovalencia strikes. Meanwhile, the City Council has unveiled…
Features
- Valencia’s Future Landmarks: The major projects transforming the city
At the beginning of last week, one of the talks of the town was the release of new pictures of the future Parc Central station. Locals and long-term residents were excited about the look of the place — with its high, wave-like ceiling, it looked straight out of Blade Runner. But that is not the… - Valencia’s Oldest Street Party Is Also Its Strangest — And This Year It Turns 700You’ve probably heard the drums somewhere near the Cathedral, spotted a crowd, maybe caught a glimpse of something enormous being pulled down a narrow street by horses — and kept walking. Next weekend, don’t. Corpus Christi is Valencia’s festa grossa — the big one. Not big in the Fallas sense of international press coverage and…
- How Valencia has a way of unlocking unexpected versions of you. For Lana, it was a children’s book.
It’s happened to all of us: you uproot your life, land somewhere new, and in the gap between who you were and who you’re becoming, something unexpected surfaces. For Lana Arcon, a Canadian living in Valencia, it took the shape of a children’s book series. “I had this idea to capture our stay… I didn’t…
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