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SNIPPETS FROM VALENCIA -
POPULATION
= 4.8 MILLION
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Thursday, 20th
March 2008
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FLAMING
FALLAS
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The
top photo shows the Town Hall of
Valencia with the firecrackers
assembled in front of it and ready for
the daily Firecrackers Show.
Mayoress
Rita Barbera greets her guest Bertin
Osborne in the second photo, while she
poses with Fallas Queens Gloria
Martinez and Victoria Blazquez, and
Francisco Camps, President of the
Valencian Government in the third
photo.
In
the photo on the left, the Falla or
monument to Aladdin and the Genie, form
a backdrop to the assembled
firecrackers for the daily show in the
main square of Valencia.
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VALENCIA
TO HOST INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
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Manuel
Toharia, scientific director of the
City of the Arts and Science in
Valencia met in Delhi, India, with
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic
Change (IPCC), and Nobel Peace Prize
winner 2007, to prepare a meeting of
the International Forum on Sustainable
Development, to take place in the City
of Arts and Science in Valencia, next
November, which Francisco Camps,
President of the Valencian Government,
has declared will be an annual
event.
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SNOWDROPS
IN VALENCIA
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Unusually
low temperatures in the Valencian
Region have brought to flower some
snowdrops (Galanthus Nivalis) in the
nature park of Penyagolosa in
Castellon.
This
flower is a Euro-Siberian botanical
jewel and has not appeared anywhere
else in the Valencian Region.
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"ALL
ROADS LEAD TO ROME" EXHIBITION IN
CASTELLON
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Rafael
Miro,Valencian Government Autonomic Secretary of
Culture, accompanied by Vicente Farnos, Ferran
Olucha, and Felipe Garin, presented the
exhibition "All Roads Lead to Rome" that
consists of 40 paintings and 40 other objects
from artists across Europe during the XVI and
XIX centuries such as Peter Brueghel the Elder,
Jacob van Ruysdael, and Gaspard van Wittel,
among others.
The
exhibition is based on the book by Dominique
Vautier, and is open in the Fine Arts Museum of
Castellon till the 18th May. From June through
August the exhibit will be on display in
Valencia, and will proceed to Alicante after the
summer.
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FIAT
STILO ABARTH AUTOMATIC CARS - A WARNING TO
DRIVERS
We advise our
readers that a fault in the electronic system of
the gear shift of Fiat automatic drive cars,
causes sudden stoppages that can produce
whiplash to the driver. This has been the
experience of our editor while driving an
automatic Fiat Stilo Abarth. The stoppages are
also highly dangerous if they take place when
passing out another vehicle, or in heavy
traffic.
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