Valencia News & Information

THIS year's world-famous tomato-throwing festival has once again left rivers of 'blood' in the streets and wrecked the clothing of visitors from all five continents, who caused the population of the host...

REGGAETON star Daddy Yankee has had €2 million worth of jewellery and diamonds and US$2,500 in cash stolen from his hotel room in Valencia.

A FOREST fire in inland Valencia province has forced 2,500 people to flee their homes and already wiped out over 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres).

VALENCIA-BASED 'super-surgeon' Pedro Cavadas has successfully reconstructed the base of a tetraplegic patient's spine, meaning he can move his upper body for the first time since he was nine years old.

VALENCIA'S Malvarrosa beach is set to host Europe's biggest inflatable flamingo race today (Saturday) with over 200 competitors and spectators expected to congregate on the shores.

VOLUNTEERS on the Aquarius have told heart-wrenching tales of the migrants they helped rescue who docked today (Sunday) in Valencia and embarked on a new life filled with hope.

THE migrant rescue ship Aquarius has docked in Valencia after an arduous nine-day voyage in which volunteers and the 629 asylum-seekers on board were fast running out of food.

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL zebra crossing that looks as though pedestrians are hopping across raised blocks is being painted in Almussafes (Valencia province).

SPAIN will take in the 629 migrants on board the Aquarius 'for humanitarian reasons' after Italy's right-wing government refused to let them dock in the country.

SPANISH Moto2 race rider Héctor Barberá has been banned from driving for a year after being caught under the influence of alcohol.

SPANISH 'super-surgeon' Dr Pedro Cavadas has reattached a North American Naval officer's severed hand after the 21-year-old suffered a submarine accident off the coast of Cartagena (Murcia).

A 54-YEAR-OLD man 'stolen' from his parents at birth by nuns has been reunited with his biological mothe and four siblings – who believed until the day they met him that he had been stillborn.