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ONLY BE VALENCIAN

Only-Be Valencian

Museo de la Ciudad

The Museo de la Ciudad is one of the most important in Valencia because it presents the most extensive collection of the artists that were born in the city.

Ca´ Sento

Ca´ Sento is a famous restaurant for maintaining the Valencian tradition. Here you´ll be able to enjoy the best seafood and fish in the city.

Morgado

Morgado is one of the most visited restaurants in Valencia because it´s the perfect place to enjoy the variety of the Valencian cuisine.

La Sucursal

La Sucursal is a famous Valencian restaurant known for having some of the most innovative dishes in the city, as well as octopus pie with fresh herbs.

Rías Gallegas

Rías Gallegas is a very pleasant restaurant where you will be able to eat the most exquisite seafood dishes in the whole city.

El Ángel Azul

El Ángel Azul is a well-known restaurant as it only offers three dishes that are part of traditional Valencian or international cuisine.

Heron City

Heron City is one of the biggest cinema complexes in Spain but, you´ll also be able to enjoy bars, restaurants and even a bowling alley.

IV Festival del Mediterrani in Valencia

Classical Music is for the few chosen. Composition and interpretation, technical ability and natural dexterity linked with this musical style, is, under my point of view becoming more separated and unreachable from daily routine. Even if the term “classical music” dates from 1800, Greeks and the Catholic church embraced this music which expanded and crossed frontiers and wrapped up colonies and countries, from the highest courts of old Europe to being popularized throughout the years in movies and festivals. The Mediterrani Festival in this fourth entree proposes a versatile walk thru famous operas as well as two concerts that will be unforgettable. The first representation will be the opera Tosca with music of Giacomo Puccini and libretos of Guiseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica which is  divided in three acts. This opera was represented for the first time in 1900. Tosca is laden with violence, intrigue, passion and drama, along with Madame Butterfly and La Boheme it represents Puccini´s best work. Tosca will be performed by the well known soprano Oksana Dyka as the main character and by baritone Aldo Heo as Sciarrone. Fidelio will also presented, the only opera of the world´s most famous deaf person, Ludwig Van Beethoven. Pier Alli will be in charge of stage direction and the music will be performed by the Valencia Community Orchestra. Fidelio explains the story of how Leonora, the main protagonist dresses up as a guard called Fidelio to rescue her husband Florestan, sentenced to death due to political motives… very “rock and roll” Who said Girls couldn´t be super heroes? Zubin Mehta will conduct the Symphony in D minor of...

Jasper Johns at the IVAM: The Footprints of Memory

An exhibition of the work of Jasper Johns, one of the most important artists of the the second half of the 20th century, will be at Valencia´s IVAM from February, through April 24th. The retrospective, “The Huellas of Memory” comprises 40 works of painting, sculpture, and pieces using signs, letters and numbers. Along with Robert Rauschenberg, Johns was a precursor of the North American Pop Art movement. Jasper Johns was born in Georgia, U.S in 1930. After spending a year at the University of Carolina, he transferred to Parsons School of Design in New York, where he met Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and started to develop his style. Johns’ prolific and eclectic work has passed through various art movements of the 20th century. Though identified as a member of the Pop Art group, for his early works with the North American flag, his use of unorthodox materials also places his at the fringes of Dadaism. There’s also a clear influence of the American abstract expressionism of the 40s and 50s, cubism, and even the German expressionism of the early 20th century. Hence the importance of Jasper Johns’ work. In 1952 he was called up for the Korean war, an experience that marks a particular stage of his artistic development which was centred around detailed paintings of the North American flag, upon which images were superimposed, and numbers and letters formed the title “Flag.” This period of flags, numbers and letters ended in the 1960s, when he discovered Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Made, and started to make bronze moulds of simple, every day objects. Johns’ methodical style of...