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- 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… - Valencia Weekend: Summer Concerts
Buen finde! It’s a busy Valencia weekend for live music and IVAM has new exhibitions worth a visit, including a screening of an experimental film about the loudest sound ever recorded on earth. It’s also the last chance to catch events at Festival Fronteras. Music & Performance For fans of folk music, on Thursday and…
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- 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… - Public vs Private in Spain: What Teachers and Doctors Are Actually Paid — and Why Thousands Are on Strike
Since Monday 12 May, public school teachers across the Comunitat Valenciana have been on indefinite strike — the first of its kind in the region in recent memory, and one that has brought tens of thousands onto the streets. The list of demands goes beyond pay: smaller class sizes, better working conditions, and the restoration…
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