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 Media: Cadena Ser Programme: Hoy por Hoy de Àngels Barceló Original title: Un paseo por el huerto de cítricos de Vicent Todolí Author: Eduardo Barba Date: 13 de mayo 2025 The landscape designer and communicator Eduardo Barba travelled to Palmera to visit the Huerto Botánico el Bartolí, the core of the Todolí Citrus Fundació. In a recent broadcast of the programme Hoy por Hoy by Àngels Barceló, on Cadena Ser, Barba recounted his experience touring this unique botanical garden, dedicated to citrus fruits. More than 500 varieties and cultivars - from the best known to rarities such as the

Media: Hola Cocina Original Title: Los cítricos que aman los grandes chefs Author: Alicia Hernández Photography: El Poblet y Miguel Cinteros Date: 1 de mayo 2025 The Citrus Fruits Loved by Great Chefs València treasures the largest citrus collection in the world, an authentic Eden where chef Luis Valls finds inspiration to create a tasting menu full of unexpected flavours at El Poblet, far beyond oranges, lemons, and grapefruits. A burst of colours and aromas greets us as we enter Todolí Citrus Fundació. Vicente Todolí is the creator of this Eden dedicated to citrus, one of the leading experts

Media: The Guardian.com Original titlel: From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus Author: Joel Hart Date: Abril 20th, 2025 From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus Chefs, home cooks and supermarkets are discovering exciting new varieties that come in all shapes and sizes When life gives you pithy cedro lemons and sweet Tacle mandarins, what exactly do you make with them? British chefs and home cooks are increasingly embracing new and unusual varieties of citrus in recipes, with supermarkets and greengrocers offering a rising number

Media: ABC Original title: El trabajo es una condena; en el paraíso no se trabaja Author: Bruno Pardo Porto Date: 26 March 2025 The former director of the Tate Modern in London has created a citrus garden in Palmera, the land where he was born. He says it is his most important museum Look no further: paradise exists and it is very close to Gandía, in Palmera, the land where sixty-seven years ago Vicente Todolí was born and where today impossible trees grow, as if taken from the imagination of some happy and hedonistic god. Here everything tastes much,

Media: El Independiente.com Original title: El paraíso contra el ladrillo de Vicente Todolí: “En Valencia somos de un pasito para delante y dos para atrás” Author: Francisco Carrión Date: March 26th, 2025 A leading figure in contemporary art, the Spaniard who once directed London's Tate Modern has created a garden with 500 varieties of citrus fruits in his hometown. "I've already built museums for others. This is my museum. Here, there's no need to change the exhibitions because they change on their own," says Vicente Todolí as he walks among citrus trees, from citrons, limes, and grapefruits to mandarins,

Media: Levante Original title: El 'Autorretrato' de Todolí Author: Amparo Barbeta Date: 26 de marzo 2025 Vicent Todolí, former head of exhibitions at IVAM, confesses in Quisiera crear un jardín (y verlo crecer) that he created the Todolí Citrus Fundació to ‘stop an urban development plan’. An orchard that, he considers, ‘can be an example of how to alleviate the abandonment of land with varieties destined for small markets’. This small agricultural space, or better to call it a paradise, is in Palmera, some five kilometres from Gandía and seventy from Valencia. A 45,000-metre orchard where guided tours are

Media: bbc.com Original Title: The art curator saving the world’s rarest fruit Author: Lucy Lovell Date: March 12th, 2025 The art curator saving the world's rarest fruit Former Tate Modern director Vicente Todolí founded Todolí Citrus Fundació to preserve rare citrus varieties and compile a catalogue of farming knowledge to inspire future generations. Our preconceptions of lemons are very rarely challenged. But on a crisp November morning on Spain's leafy Valencian coastline, Vicente Todolí is showing me the secret side of citrus – and it's unlike anything I've seen on supermarket shelves. The most weird and wonderful specimens are

Media: Revista L'Agrària Original title: El legado de Vicente Todolí: un huerto botánico de cítricos para la ciencia y los valencianos Author: Vicent Llorens Date: Marzo 2025 The legacy of Vicente Todolí: a botanical citrus orchard for science and the Valencian people World-renowned as a museum director and artistic advisor, this Valencian from La Safor shows with this magnificent project, an intimate and personal work, that he is also passionate about citriculture, its study and dissemination, and an energetic guardian of the threatened landscape of the Huerta. From the wooden viewpoint that rises above the thicket of the orchard,

Media: El Español.com Original title: Vicente Todolí, el sabio que cambió La Tate por un jardín de cítricos: 500 especies, del limequat a la mano de Budha Author: Natalia Martínez Date: 10th February 2025 Citrus fruits are a fruit with a history of their own that appeared ‘at the foot of the Himalayas 8,000,000 years ago’: from their origins in Southeast Asia, through Greek mythology and their spread from East to West. It is in this part of the world, in Palmera, a corner of the Valencian region of La Safor environment that ‘has some of the best climatic

News Source: ABC Original title: El vergel de cítricos valenciano que inspira a la alta cocina Author: Adrián Delgado Date: January 25, 2025 The Valencian citrus orchard that inspires haute cuisine Vicente Todolí, ex-director of London's Tate Modern, and chef Luis Valls, of El Poblet, link activism, gastronomy and art from the countryside to the plate Vicente Todolí slips into a blue coat and the smoke from his cigarette. It's December and high pressure and a Mediterranean glow are shining on a cold morning for this area, in the Valencian region of La Safor, between Oliva and Gandía, with