• Valencia News April 13 | Summer Concerts at Risk, Foreign Buyers Rise & San Vicente Ferrer
    Bon dia! Here’s your roundup of Valencia news this week. Today is the Festival day of San Vicente Ferrer, Valencia’s public holiday honouring the city’s patron saint. There will be religious processions and children’s mystery plays — the Miracles of San Vicente — taking place across the city. Plus a mascletà at Plaza Tetuan at…
  • Valencia Weekend April 9-13 | San Vicente Ferrer
    Buen Finde! Valencia moves from Easter into a packed spring cultural calendar. The San Vicente Ferrer festival takes over the city this weekend with children’s religious plays and fireworks. Alongside the festivities this Valencia weekend, there is also dance, wine, food, and a silent film with a live organ score. Unfortunately, the forecast for rain…
  • Festival of San Vicente Ferrer
    San Vicente Ferrer, one of Valencia’s patron saints, is celebrated on the second Monday after Easter, which falls on Monday, April 13 this year. This local holiday means schools and many shops will be closed, and the city will host religious processions, children’s performances, and a traditional mascletà or fireworks display. Who Was San Vicente…

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  • In Praise of Cafe Normal
    Barista coffee changed the landscape of coffee consumption in Spain. One of those many changes brought after Covid and the big waves of international residents that took over the city. They knew coffee came in a tall white cup, and you could have almost endless combinations of the brew tailored to a specific rainbow combination…
  • La Massawina e i Milanessi: Eritrean-Italian in Valencia
    When I was a student in the U.S., the best Indian food in the Cleveland-Akron area was served at an upscale place called The Mad Greek. They offered Greek and Indian dishes side by side, and we used to joke that the name suited them: Who had ever heard of Greek and Indian food coming…
  • Are Spanish People Still Religious?
    If you’ve lived in Spain long enough, you already know that there is a church in every neighbourhood. No matter how small the community, there will be some sort of religious centre. My own relatively young neighbourhood has around 6,000 people, and we got one a few weeks ago — right on time for Easter….