Culture/Art/Literature news & information for Costa Valencia

VALENCIA'S annual international dance festival is back for the first time since the pandemic, and part of it will spill out onto the streets – in total, 19 venues, indoors and out, and 32 performing arts companies...

THREE years after it was last celebrated, the Comunidad Valenciana's giant March Fallas festival is back on, with massive, colourful papier-mâché monuments in every neighbourhood of almost every town within the...

VALENCIA'S world-famous 'Gulliver Park' is undergoing a massive overhaul, meaning it will be shut until late next year – but the city council promises it will be worth the wait.

EACH region in Spain has its own day of the year where it celebrates itself, rather like a birthday but without the age increase involved. Sometimes, a 'regional day' just involves a public holiday, a day off...

VISITORS to or residents in the Comunidad Valenciana seeking a day out over the October bank holiday will have plenty of options under one roof at the iconic City of Arts and Sciences – from 4D films of 20,000 Leagues...

A 'NEW' species of dinosaur thought to have lived over 130 million years ago has been discovered in a remote rural area of the province of Castellón on Spain's east coast.

THE ONLY known portrait held in Spain painted by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli is now on display in Valencia after having been loaned by the family which has owned it since 1929.

KING Felipe and Queen Letizia visited the Valencia-province coastal town of Oliva for the first time ever to present one of the nation's most prestigious awards to a former Oxbridge lecturer.

ALL IS NOT lost for this year's huge Fallas festival in the Comunidad Valenciana – they will merely take place six months late.

A VALENCIAN artist's engraving in homage to Spanish and other victims of the Nazis is now on display again at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, meaning visitors to the grounds of this notorious torture site...

FOR the second year running, the Valencia region's massive March Fallas fiestas are off the agenda due to the pandemic, but celebrations are still happening somehow or another – firework displays are still due to...