Metalper: a Company Founded on Friendship
There are things that are more important than making money, (although if you can make money doing what you like then so much the better).
Joaquín Rodrigo: Sagunto’s Blind Maestro
Rodrigo lived in Valencia in Calle Sorní, where there is a barely noticeable plaque commemorating his period of residence.
River Deep, Wedding High
Not everybody wants a dream wedding in Saint Paul’s Cathedral like Lady Di, but more and more people are looking for different ways to start married life. At 7 o’clock on the morning of September 14th, 2013, Ramón and his climbing club ascended the mountain, while at 8.30 the bride, Gussi, and guests walked up on the opposite side at a more leisurely pace.
Valencia Cinema Route Inaugurated
One of the lesser known features of Valencia is as a location for set-jetting (cinema tourism). Spain’s most famous web site for set jetting in Spain www.silver-screen-spain.com is run by Valencia-based English teacher and writer Bob Yareham and Telecommunications Engineer Juan José Cermeño, and includes a section on Cinema Cities, one of which is Valencia.
Nacho Baños: His Guitar is Laughing not Weeping.
A small shop in Russafa connects music lovers in the USA with those in Spain and all over Europe. Of course you cannot be fanatical about guitars unless you actually play them, and in 1994 Nacho started a group called ‘Tres Hombres’, in homage to the hairy American group ZZ Top. Surprisingly there are three men in the group, Nacho being joined by Manuel Ugarte and Yago Soriano, with whom he recently toured his beloved USA.
Mitsubishi: the Sun also Rises in Valencia
In the the visitors room of the Mitsubishi plant at Museros there are four photos on the wall. The first one shows the original production plant in 1964, surrounded by fields. The latest is from 1996, with the factory grown to its full size.
VLC News Interviews UPV Rector Francisco Mora.
Valencia is an international city, but some institutions are more internacional than others; and right up there at the top of the Valencian world wide web is the UPV, the Valencia Polytechnic University, which since 1971 has been a symbol and a centre of Valencian innovation, creativity and vision.
Stop, Hey, What’s DAS Sound?
Founded in 1971 at tiny premises in Valencia’s Calle de Mar by a young industrial engineer named Juan Alberola, Dynamic and Sound (D.A.S.) Audio has in its 40 plus years of evolution developed into an international brand name of prestige in the world of sound systems.
Sander’s Brewery
Valencia never ceases to amaze me. There can’t be many cities where you can find a restaurant run by a Swedish man and an Indian woman. Or maybe I’m just losing touch with a changing world!
Spainsburys British Supermarket.
“Open a British supermarket in Lliria? You must be mad!»
I was one of many who pronounced these prophetic words, and like all the others, I got it completely wrong.
I should have known; my wife tells me so every day.
Otos: the Village where Time (almost) Stands Still
Hidden away in the deep, dark, rocky recesses of the Vall de Albaida, to the far far west of Valencia, is a village where time stands still. Or at least it does when the sun goes down; the rest of the time time is in perpetual motion in harmony with the star around which our planet, the third stone from the sun, is orbiting.
Rafael Guastavino
Rafael Guastavino is not terribly well known in his native Valencia. He is however much appreciated in the city he helped to build; New York, New York. In the news because his house has been bought and saved from demolition by a Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, VLC News reviews the career of this great Valencian.