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SNIPPETS FROM VALENCIA -
POPULATION
= 4.8 MILLION
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Sunday 23rd March
2008
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TRAIN
WORKSHOPS RENOVATED
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The
Council of Infrastructures and
Transport, through Valencian Government
Railways (FGV) has completed renovation
on the garage and workshop for
underground - Metro, trains 4, 5, and
6, at a cost of 3,770,276.62
euro.
This
repair centre has a capacity to service
44 trains - of which 19 were
incorporated from Bombardier last
year.
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2008
FALLAS FIESTAS ARE OVER
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Valencian
emigrants from different countries in
Latin America who visited Valencia in
the famous special airlift "Avion
Fallera" organised by the Valencian
Government to enable them to enjoy the
Fallas Fiestas, leave Valencia to
return home. They were seen off by
Rafael Blasco, Councillor of
Immigration and Citizenship.
And
in the photo on the left, Fallas Queen
Gloria Martinez, gives Francisco Camps,
President of the Valencian Government,
a replica of a fifty euro cent coin
bearing his image, thus saving it from
burning in the bonfire that ended the
Fallas Fiestas for 2008.
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FLAMING
FALLAS FIESTAS END
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Mayoress
Rita Barbera poses in the first four
photos with members of the fire brigade
and other security forces before the
Falla or bonfire monument starts to
burn in the main square of Valencia.
In
the fifth photo, she is seen with the
artists who designed the Falla and in
the sixth with senior Fallas Queen
Gloria Martinez and her maids of
honour.
In
the seventh photo the Falla or monument
to Aladdin and the Genie, prior to the
fire in the eighth and ninth
photos.
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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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"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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