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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…
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…
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…
Bon dia! This week in Valencia News, the teachers’ unions have given the regional government until April 16 to negotiate or face an indefinite strike that could end the school year early. Storm damage to Valencian beaches is triggering emergency works to salvage the summer season. And a priceless historic artifact, missing for decades, is finally…
Buen Finde! It’s Easter weekend in Valencia and Semana Santa Marinera is underway, when the streets of the maritime neighbourhoods fill with processions through Easter Sunday. There’s also plenty to eat, drink, and listen to across the long weekend. A full programme from Berklee Valencia’s student concerts to a singalong Jesus Christ Superstar, Easter sweets…
While many Spanish cities celebrate Semana Santa (Holy Week) with processions and pageantry, Valencia’s version is uniquely rooted in its maritime soul. The neighborhoods of Cabanyal, Canyamelar, and El Grao form the heart of this celebration. Traditional processions by religious brotherhoods recreate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But Semana Santa Marinera in…