A day in the Valencian Huerta (Fertile Plain): Landscape, paella, organic products and living.
Entering a Valencian hut or a farmhouse in the fertile plain of Valencia (Huerta) is not as easy task as it seems even for the Valencians locals.
One of the inhabitants opens the doors of his farmhouse in the vegetable garden of Valencia, on the “Camino de Vera”, next to the Polytechnic University. Our friend Carmen […]
Saint Vicente Martyr, patron saint of Valencia
Valencia: a Huge Central Market
Lights, colors, sounds and organic products from the Valencian “Huerta” (fertile plain)
A beautiful locale experience, while learning about the history of the old streets, with circle and trading squares, aplenty of aromas of fruit and silk textures from the Central Market and the Lonja (Silk Exchange). The number of people who come inside resembles the […]
Historic Tour of the silk in Valencia: Lonja-Casa del Arte Mayor on saturdays 11.00h-13.00h
Tour of the background of silk in the city from 1460 to 1880, in a panoramic drive from China to Valencia through a cultural route, brought by the Arabs and accomplished by the Italians and Valencians, with Monuments such as the House of the Greater Art of Silk , La Lonja and the City Hall.
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Words of love turned into garden: “Jardines de Polifilo” (Polyphile Gardens): Valencia
A garden dedicated to the ties of love between the two renaissance lovers “Poliphile” and “Polia” and the architecture of urban landscape of Valencia.
The Dream of natural beauty of Polyphile
The Polyphili Hypnerotomachia or “The Fight for the dreams of Polifilo” is an Italian novel or “courtly love discourse”, written near Venice. The title, inspired by […]