These pages are all about Valencia's vibrant culture scene.

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You want art? There are around 30 galleries and museums in the city. The excellent IVAM devoted to modern art, the Museo de Bellas Artes, a fine permanent collection and well staged exhibitions, the Bancaixa Gallery has a large permanent collection of Picasso etchings.

Go here for a list of the major galleries - all are open daily except monday - entrance fees vary but are not expensive and Sundays, all galleries are free.

Theatre your thing? There are four major theatre spaces in the city, an excellent Music Palace Palau de Música and the stunning new Opera house masterpiece Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía by the celebrated Valencian Architect Calatrava. There is also a thriving café theatre scene (seasonal) and many of the smaller clubs have performance on a regular basis.
Sagunto - up the coast a bit has a roman amphitheatre and stages not only the classics but concerts as well.

Go here for a list of the major theatres and here for the clubs

Are you a movie fan? The Spanish love movies - there are cinemas all over town - mainly dubbed in Castellano, so your going to have to learn the language if you want to see the blockbusters, although the new Ciné Cité at Espai (click their box to right to go to their site)in Campanar does show a handful of films in Original Version each week. For arty films there are the excellent Albatross and Babel (click their box to right) cinemas which show their films in original version and the IVAC - Filmoteca.(click their box to right)The annua festival Cinema Joven starts on the 21st of June for one week, more here soon The IVAC has a summer outdoor cinema in front of the Palau de Musica in the riverbed all the way through August, the programme will be here when it's pulished .

Is music your bag? There's a wealth of music here in Valencia for you to enjoy. From rock to folk to classical to brass bands to jazz and back again click here for the major venues.

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BlackJack
Anime - Joe needs Dr. Black Jack's help on finding a cure for failing superheroes.

Savages
A brother and sister have to look after their abusive fatherwho has dementia and they have not seen for 20 years

Things We Lost in the Fire Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro
A drama about two people brought together by fate. Audrey’s (Berry) life has been shattered by the sudden death of her husband. In grief, she turns to one of his life-long friends, Jerry (Del Toro), a former lawyer who is on a serious downward spiral. Together, they work to repair their lives.

Elegy
Elegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him.

The Dead Girl
A story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect
 

Valencia's
major rock and pop venues
This list does not aim to be definitive - just to give Valencia's main rock and pop music venues. If you would like to get in touch with us to request we add a venue or to report a broken link, please email us here
For venues outside Valencia , click here

Valencia's
major art galleries
and exhibition venues
This list does not aim to be definitive - just to give Valencia's major art exhibition spaces. If you would like to get in touch with us to request we add a venue or to report a broken link,please email us here
For venues outside Valencia , click here

Valencia's
major theatre and classical music venues
This list does not aim to be definitive - just to give Valencia's main theatre and classical music venues. If you would like to get in touch with us to request we add a venue or to report a broken link, please email us here
For venues outside Valencia , click here

Valencia's
Venues that show films in Original Version
This list does not aim to be definitive - just to give Valencia's main Original version Film venues. If you would like to get in touch with us to request we add a venue or to report a broken link, please email us here
For venues outside Valencia , click here

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BABEL
Nightwatching
Peter Greenaway's extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting THE NIGHT WATCH

IT'S A FREE WORLD / EN UN MUNDO LIBRE
the latest offering from Ken Loach.

Honeydripper
John Sayles' fable about the birth of rock n' roll - a quintessentially American subject, but with a fidelity to time and temperament that is unusual in an American director.

Cashback
A young insomniac attempts to cope with his sleepless nights by taking a job at a local supermarket, only to discover that he possesses a curious coping mechanism

ALBATROS
The Counterfieters
Based on a true story, a huge counterfeiting operation set up by the Nazis. A Jewish con artist is handpicked in a concentration camp to head up the scheme intended to disrupt the Allied economies.

Emotional Arithmetic
Emotional Arithmetic tells the story of three people who formed a life-long bond while housed at a Nazi internmention camp in Paris during World War II that are reunited some 35 years later after being separated from one another

Fay Grim
Fay Grim, a single Mom from Woodside, Queens, is afraid her 14 year old son, Ned, will grow up to be like his father, Henry, who has been missing for seven years.

Before the devil Knows You're Dead.
Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all - itself.

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