The talk 'Sagunto, Territorio Eclipse' filled every seat at the Casa Municipal de Cultura in Puerto de Sagunto (coastal district) on Tuesday 28 July, part of the City Council's programme ahead of the total solar eclipse on 12 August.
Cultural associations in Sagunto want 29 July - the day King Jaume I granted the Carta Pobla (founding charter) of Morvedre in 1248 - established as the city's key civic date.
Education and healthcare projects lose most of the regional funding PSPV-PSOE sought for Sagunto: PP and Vox voted down 20 amendments in Les Corts that aimed to raise the allocation from 7 to 79 million euros.
The Federación de Peñas (peñas federation) of Puerto de Sagunto and the city's Fiestas department have finalised the 2026 patron saint festival programme, with children's, bullfighting, music and popular events running from 1 to 15 August.
The Afacam association will hold its 22nd charity gala on Sunday 23 August at Sagunto's Roman Theatre, with volunteer artists performing to raise funds for people living with Alzheimer's disease.
Homeowner communities in the Baladre district could end up covering unpaid neighbours' bills if Sagunto does not activate, before the end of August, the payment system approved by the plenary, the Vox party warns.
Quartell, a Camp de Morvedre municipality next to Sagunto, hosts four free concerts from 31 July to 6 August for the ninth Música a la Fresca festival, with African percussion, Latin American folk and jazz.
The Morvedre III Training Centre, housed in the renovated old municipal slaughterhouse in Puerto de Sagunto (coastal district), now trains residents and municipal staff after a €400,000 refurbishment co-funded by EU FEDER-EDUSI regional funds.
Sagunto City Council has ordered flags at half-mast for three days following the death, at 86, of Ramón Lapiedra Civera, a theoretical physics professor and the city's Adoptive Son since 2020.
Volkswagen is considering giving Chinese battery maker Gotion a minority stake in the PowerCo battery gigafactory being built in Sagunto, the city's largest current industrial investment, Reuters has reported.
The Federació Junta Fallera de Sagunt (the local Fallas association) has unveiled the official hair-combs and fabrics for its Falleras Mayores, Empar Ríos and Maria Pozuelo, marking the start of the countdown to September's Exaltaciones ceremony at the Roman Theatre.
The board of Fundación Bancaja has unanimously appointed architect Belén Genovés Casquete as president of its Delegated Committee in Sagunto, the body that drives the foundation's cultural and social activity in the Camp de Morvedre district.
Compromís per Sagunt is demanding the City Council act on the motion the plenary approved in July to mark the 750th anniversary of the death of Jaume I, founder of the Kingdom of Valencia, who died on 27 July 1276.
In Canet d'En Berenguer, a coastal municipality next to Sagunto in Camp de Morvedre, the town council has added three more cleaning staff for summer and warned of fines up to €750 for leaving bags or furniture by containers.
Sagunto's port stayed closed to shipping traffic on Monday so that firefighting seaplanes could scoop up seawater for the forest fire burning in Vall d'Uixó, in its third active day, the Valencian government's emergency coordination centre confirmed.
Almardà, a coastal district of Sagunto, holds its Almardà Fest 2026 summer festival from 31 July to 2 August, organised by the Almardà Viva association with support from the Council's Festivities department.
