Aspar at the City of Arts and Sciences. Take a Spanish course in Valencia, in Taronja! and Enjoy!
Spread over close to 350,000 square metres, the City
of Arts and Sciencesis an open space encompassing several
buildings designed to host all kinds of cultural, entertainment and
sporting events. L'Hemisfèric, l'Umbracle, l'Oceanogràfic, the Opera
House (Palau de les Arts), the Agora and the Príncipe Felipe Science
Museum regularly hold many different events.
In fact, at the Príncipe FelipeScience Museum until 27th
June you can see the exhibition Aspar 30 years 1979-2009, housed
in the Main Street of the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, which
examines the career of the 125 cc twice world champion, Jorge Martínez
Aspar. At this exhibition, you can admire a collection of the most
representative motorbikes, helmets, overalls and trophies from the
career of this Valencian bike racer over the last 30 years.
Make the most of this opportunity to discover the other buildings that
make up the City of Arts and Sciences. L'Hemisfèric houses a large room
with two projection systems where you can enjoy astronomical
representations and entertainment spectacles. In l'Umbracle you will
find a spectacular esplanade and landscaped viewing point. Furthermore,
in l'Oceanogràfic you can learn about the planet's major marine
ecosystems and at the Reina Sofía Opera House (Palau de les Arts), you
can enjoy the most prestigious theatre, opera and music performances of
the moment. Finally, the Ágora is the latest incorporation to the set, a
building designed to host all kinds of events.
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FALLAS 2010! Enjoy the Fallas with Taronja School while taking a Spanish course!
A fiesta of international tourist interest. The Fallas have their
origins in a ritual celebrating the arrival of spring, later converted
by the church into a commemoration of the day of San José.The
inhabitants of Valencia
used to throw their old furniture and junk
in the street and burn it as a symbol of purification,showing that
winter had gone and spring had arrived.
Over time, they also began to burn satirical figures representing those
they most detested in the city. Nowadays this spontaneous fiesta is
very different indeed. The Fallas as we know them today date back to
the 18th century.
There are currently some 400 comisiones falleras – falla groups – in
Valencia. Each of them sets up its own Falla and celebrates the fiestas
in the open air.The Fallas are real works of art made from papiermâché
and represent satirical scenes,normally referring to current affairs
and Valencian customs.
The Falla artists responsible for creating the Fallas zealously protect
the subjects and designs of their monuments, which are only unveiled on
the night of March 15th,when all the Fallas are “planted” in the
streets and squares of Valencia.The next day, the Junta Central Fallera
Organising Committee visits all the monuments and chooses the best in
each category.Every year the Fallas in the Special Category – those
with the biggest budgets – compete for the prestigious first prize,
which recognises their originality,beauty and technical difficulty.
In the Region of Valencia we are celebrating, Light, colour and
fire, fire among all will flow for a couple of days, the streets and
squares of villages and cities. Form this friendly land, we invite you
to meet and live the Fallas in Valencia, the most
internationally know festivity.For five days, fireworks, mascletaes and
monuments are the protagonists of different cities, where the smell of
gunpowder blends with the finest flower scents, sound of music of the
bands and the masclets. A whole transformation that precedes the Spring
season. On March 19th, everything starts and everything ends because
with the last ashes, the dream of the Fallas of the upcoming year begins
III Mediterranean Festival at the Valencia Opera House. Between 29th May and 30th June
With the suggestive title ELLA (she), the third edition of the Mediterranean
Festivalis getting underway at the Valencia
Opera House (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía), an event that in
2010 is putting the spotlight on women. They will play the starring role
from very different perspectives: from the idealised Dulcinea del
Toboso, to the nostalgic and stylised vision of a tango and the
expressionist sorrow of Strauss.
In this respect, the III Mediterranean Festival has chosen two legendary
opera characters, Carmen and Salome. These two operas, along with a
number of symphony concerts that will be performed between 29th
May and 30th June, will be conducted by the maestro Zubin
Mehta.
III Mediterranean Festival
Furthermore, over the course
of this month-long festival, audiences can enjoy film seasons,
dramatised readings, exhibitions and of course commemorations of the
second centennial of the birth of Chopin and Schumann as well as the
150th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Albéniz. The main
novelties at the III Mediterranean Festival include a tribute to
Albéniz. For the first time, on 2nd and 3rd June,
twelve pianists based in Valencia will be performing the twelve pages
of Iberia, the Spanish piano masterpiece. Each performance will
be presented and discussed by Justo Romero, dramatist at the Valencia
Opera House (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía) and biographer of Albéniz.
Set in the City of Arts and Sciences, the Palau de les Arts encompasses
four areas capable of staging opera, music, ballet and theatre
productions. Undoubtedly, a space created to extol culture.
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The Region of Valencia’s beaches… Come and discover them with Taronja School!
What better place to enjoy the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean than the Region of Valencia’s beaches?
From north to south, you’ll find beaches to suit all tastes; hidden and
tucked away, grand and majestic, privileged places where you can make
the most of every last ray of sunshine. Mediterranean landscapes with
intense blues and golden sands that you can discover thanks to the Guide to Beaches and the Guide to charming Coves and Beaches in the Region of Valencia.
The provinces of Alicante, Valencia and
Castellón stretch over hundreds of kilometres of golden sand and rocky
shores that carve onto the Valencian geography a figure of indescribable
beauty. Urban or untamed, nudist and accessible, with a wide variety of
accommodation, services and restaurants: these are the beaches and
coves of the Region of Valencia.
The crystalline coastline of the Costa Blanca
invites you to enjoy its warm climate but also to discover the beaches
and coves that stretch from Dénia to Torrevieja: looking out to the
Mediterranean we find municipalities and towns filled with charm that
display their seafaring legacy on their house fronts, in the smell of
their cooking, but above all in the hospitality of their people
Traditions that live side by side and merge with the modernity and cutting-edge feel of the cosmopolitan Benidorm.
Many factors have made this city the European capital of tourism. The
warm temperatures, which usually range between 15º and 20º practically
all year round, the extensive range of hotels and leisure options
available to visitors and, of course, its golden sandy beaches.
Come to
the Comunitat Valenciana and enjoy!
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Come to Valencia and Get ready for La Tomatina in Buñol, on 25th August! Enjoy with Taronja!!
Tomato War in Buñol Valencia
The spanish school in Spain, Taronjaschool invites you to visit the Tomatina in Buñol
Valencia- Spain.
Just as every year, on the last Wednesday of August more than 40,000 people, hungry for fun and fiesta, get roped into tomato throwing in the Tomatina de Buñol, a friendly battle in which more than 110 tons of ripe tomatoes fly through the air.
Come and enjoy a fiesta that is unique in the world with a curious protagonist that leaves everything red and that cleans and disinfects: the tomato. What a fight the Tomatina is here!.
For more than seventy years this small inland town in the province of Valencia has received the visit of tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world. It is not difficult to find travellers arriving from Japan, Korea, Belgium, Australia, the United States, Canada, Italy, France or Germany in the streets of this town.
At approximately 11 in the morning a convoy of lorries will begin to parade, full of tomatoes, along the street called Cid and the Town Square, dyeing the roads, pavements, walls, façades, participants, the curious and everything that crosses their path red with the red and ripe projectiles. Just one hour later the time comes to leave everything just as it was before.
The restorative water will return the original colour to the buildings, and the tomato will gradually disappear down the street until everything goes back to normality. Two hours are sufficient for the cleaning brigade, with the help of the neighbours who offer their help as volunteers, to leave the streets of Buñol just as they were before the tomatoes dyed them red.
A word of advice, if you come to the Tomatina respect the rules: you have one hour for throwing tomatoes from the moment a rocket announces the start of the battle until the end, one hour later, when another rocket is set off. The tomatoes, which are ripe, should be squashed between your hands before throwing them. Grab a tomato and have fun.
