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

Festival del Mediterraneo - a veritable Wagnerfest HERE
A series of concerts, Opera, Film , conferences and outdoor spectacle at the Palau de les Arts.MORE

IVAM CONFINES/FRONTIERS

NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER

Four exhibitions with one common theme, Frontiers , or the lack of them. - HERE

FERIA DE JULIO

This year's Ferio de Julio concerts under the moon and stars in Viveros Park are promising to be star-studded!

Among famous names appearing are Anastacia, Miguel Bosé and James Taylor

Get your tickets now before they sell out! MORE

XIII FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DEL PALAU DE LA MÚSICA DE VALENCIA.

Two glorious weeks of the best of the world's Jazz, with the music Gershwin, Miles Davis and Nina Simone as part of a great lineup MORE

NEED GOOD READING AND LISTENING? GO HERE FOR THE LATEST REVIEWS FROM
GOORU AND BABU

¡Guerra! by Jason Webster is out now - we have an exclusive interview with the author here

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 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 you're going to have to learn the language if you want to see the blockbusters, although the Ciné Cité at Fuencarral (click their box top right to go to their site)in Campanar does show a handful of blockbuster films in Original Version each week. For arty films there are the excellent Albatross and Babel (click their box top right) cinemas which show their films in original version and the IVAC - Filmoteca.(click their box top right)The annua festival Cinema Joven takes place each June for one week, and tthe excellent Mostra de Valencia - the Mediterranean film festival happens around October each year, more here as they happen. 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 published .

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.

Always got your face in a book? go here for reviews and the inspired monthly column from Gooru.

Fashion Victim or just love to read an excellent woman columnist? Anita Darling is here, and Barbara O'Neill is here, just for you.

YOUNG VICTORIA
From Martin Scorsese & the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victorias early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle in to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt (Devil Wears Prada) gives a stunning performance as The Young Victoria.

Packed with drama, romance, political intrigue, breath-taking cinematography and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany and Miranda Richardson and Rupert Friend

GRAN TORINO
Clint Eastwood stars in the drama Gran Torino, marking his first film role since his Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood also directs the film in which he plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.

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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ALBATROS

THE VISITOR
Veteran actor Richard Jenkins earned his first Oscar nomination for playing a professor caught up in the plight of illegal immigrants

SOMERSTOWN
Tommo, just turned sixteen and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive - he is not comfortable in his father's world.

GRAN TORINO

BABEL

GENOVA
The Italian town of Genova provides a fresh start for Joe (Colin Firth) and his two young daughters, a family seeking new lives after the sudden death of their mother. While Kelly, explores the underbelly of this mysterious new world, Mary, has just seen the ghost of her mother wandering the streets.

SICKO
If you want to stay healthy in America, don't get sick.
Following on the heels of his Palm d'Or winning 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and his Oscar winning film Bowling for Columbine, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.

SLUMDOG MILLONAIRE
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

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