The collective "Amics i Antics Alumnes" (Friends and Former Students) has organized an intense programme of activities in May which include free visits to the Astronomic Observatory of the UV and another visit to the historic building “La Nau”, walks around the city centre and a trip to the Valencian villages of Culla y Benassal, to know their castles and walls. The star activity of the month is the cookery course “Sabores V” (Flavours), which goes in the depth of the secrets of rice.
What variety of rice is the most appropriate to elaborate dry rice, mellow rice or soupy rice? What is the basis of the traditional Valencian varieties of rice and their secrets? The course of traditional varieties of rice “Sabores V” will respond to these questions and some others with the help of the great staff of teachers of Valencia Cooking Club.
This monographic course is divided into three sessions which will be held on 10, 17 and 31 May. In the first, the cookers will prepare one of the most typical Valencian dishes “Arroz al Horno” (a variety of rice which is cooked in the oven), a Valencian Paella (the most typical Valencian dish) and a dish of black rice with squid and tender garlics: in the second, a dish of mellow rice with pumpkin and cauliflower, and two more dishes of rice with milk and mellow rice with artichoke and prawns, which will delight of the chefs; in the last session will be cooked the following dishes: rice with seafood (in Spanish “arroz a la marinera”), soupy rice with chards and snails and rice with beans and turnips.
The registration form to the course, which will be opened from 29 April, includes both theoric and practical lessons as well as the necessary cooking supplies and the tasting of all the elaborated dishes. It is an activity subsidized by “Amics i Antics Alumnes” (the association of Friends and Former Students ).
Free Activities
Moreover, the assocciation “Amics i Antics Alumnes” has programmed two free activities for all its members during this month. The first one consists on a visit to the Astronomic Observatory of the UV. The Observatory and the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics organize every year sessions opened to the public on Fridays, so the association has booked for 2 May and 13 June.
On the other hand, on 15 May, the association “Amics i Antics Alumnes” of the UV invites to its partners to a guided visit to “La Nau”, the historic building of the academic institution. The visitants will walk around the former university, inaugurated in 1499, and they will know its history through the different spaces which compound the current Cultural Centre “La Nau”: the cloisters, the auditorium, the Aula Magna, the chapel of the “Sapiencia”, the exhibition halls and the Historic Library.
Two walks around the city centre and a trip to the Valencian villages Culla and Benassal
The walks around the historic Valencian city centre, this month, they will focus on the area of “el Cabanyal” and in the leading figure of Blasco Ibañez. Both trips will be on 11 May. On the one hand, the collective will depen in the Valencian writer’s life and works through “el Cabanyal”, a sailor neighbourhood which had important influence on the author in a time of ideological and politic commitment.
On the other hand, from the end of “la Avenida Del Puerto”, the collective “Amics i Antics Alumnes” will know the popular modernism of the “Cabanyal-Canyamelar” neighborhood; the shipyards of the “Grao” and the modernist buildings of the area will attract the visitants’ attention, who will be accompanied by Joan V. Candel, a guide of Fil-per-Randa.
The exhibition “La Luz de las Imágenes” (The light of the images) will close the activities of the month on 18 May. With its headquarters at the “Casa Abadía” of Culla, participants will go into the exhibition from a medieval area surrounded by the wall which runs inside the building.
This trip, guided by Manuel Carceller, expert in history, includes a rural walk along “La robleda del Ribet” (forests of oaks of Bebassal) lasting one hour. The Carles Salvador’s house-museum will be visited, the medieval walls of the village and the medieval city of Culla with houses made of stone, prisons and the church of Salvador.
These proposals are organized by the collective Amics i Antics Alumnes of the UV in collaboration with “Club de Viatges Fil-per-Randa” (a travel club)
Last update: 14 de april de 2014 09:09.
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