From Hemingway to Blasco Ibáñez: València ideas new routes to its various streets for tourists and locals
He who does not travel through Valencia is because he does not fly. Hi there are routes for everyone, for lovers of literature, of cinema, for admirers of the genuine history of the city and for all, philosophical, for admirers of Ernest Hemingway. It is now centennial that the Festa writer is going to visit the Valencian capital for the first time, and with the excuse of that curious event the City Council, through the Tourism Service, has launched the Hemingway Route , an initiative to “reinforce the position of Valencia as a cultural tourist destination,” they explain. At the moment the month of July has passed.
Valencia's first visit was July 1925, when he began writing this novel, set during the bullfighting days of the July Fair. For those centuries-old hotels and restaurants that the North American writer will pass through, this tour -Hotel Excelsior, the Estació del Nord, the Plaça de Toros, the Hotel Reina Victòria or the Hotel Anglès, among others- that the July pass will take you to the city and which includes an alternating pass along the maritime strip, from l'urinari Chaves, the La Pepica restaurant, els Berenadors, the platja de els Arenes, l'Escorxador or the Casa dels Bous.
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Also from the maritime neighborhood it is possible to connect with the city, in this case through the ulls of its most illustrious writer, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The Seva Casa Museu organizes two literary routes guided to explain and evoke to the assistants the environment in which it is going to inspire the writer to create two of the most famous novels, Flor de maig i Arròs i tartana , available, now, from September. They are not the only ones, since they are simply going to create other literary routes to wander around Valencia following the texts of Vicent Andrés Estellés or Marc Granell. It will be a matter of the Linguistic Normalization Cabinet of the Consistori, which sought to disseminate the work of the most recognized Valencian authors. Currently, it can be done according to the documents available on the municipal website.
Literature is a good demand for exploiting the cultural wealth of Valencia and the current local government is going to propose a new proposal, similar to those previously mentioned, but with more visibility, since it will place on the streets of the city various sculptures, in natural form, of characters from films and literary works set in the cities.
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This last week he donated to conèixer the name of five artists - Alfredo Llorens García; Gabriel Raúl Cisneros Báez; Raúl Rubio Sánchez; Josep Manuel Juan Moraleda; and Alejandro Inglés Pérez - who will move on to the second and final phase of the artistic competition, with the participation of a jury, for the conception, production and installation of the first three sculptural fish. They will be Doña Manuela and the Aragonese nen, all two of the novel Arròs i Tartana , by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, which will be located in Plaça del Mercat; and the figures from the popular comic Mortadelo i Filemón, from the film The Great Adventure of Mortadelo i Filemón, a film by Javier Fesser, which will be located on the corners of Dalt Street, in the Carme neighborhood.
Mortadelo i Filemón, at natural height, will be erected on Dalt del Carme streetIn the literary, cinematographic and cultural and poetic routes that Valencia has, the residents of Ciutat Vella propose to establish a new one for, according to the call, “enhance the pride of belonging to the community and the citizens, thereby promoting the knowledge of the history of the “our city and respect for mateixa.” The initiative, which aims to create its own graphic image, was sponsored by the district board and will be based on the Route of the notable villages of the historic center of Valencia to design three proposals for cultural routes that comprise the 35 llocs of interest related to life in the historic center of Valencia and that included 73 existing plaques to the façanes of the six houses, buildings and historic buildings.
The Consistori has opened in this case a public competition, with a single prize of 1,500 euros, which will end on October 6 and which will include a new logo accompanied by a brand manual for that new route of “notable buildings” of Valencia.
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