A QR code, 4 paragraphs: the Nazi grave in Carcaixent

Today's essentials (5 key points)

• Compromis has proposed a 'Bo Teatre' theatre voucher in Valencia, modelled on the existing retail voucher, to make cultural outings more affordable.
• A total of 401 public homes are now available to rent across the Comunitat Valenciana, 88 of them in Valencia, with rents starting at 350 euros a month.
• A residents' protest is challenging the planned new road between Mislata and Campanar because it would cross a protected stretch of huerta farmland.
• Scheduled electrical maintenance will interrupt power across 18 municipalities in the Valencia area between 14 and 18 September.
• Social groups protested at Valencia's former Formula 1 urban circuit against the planned eviction of roughly 1,000 people living in a shantytown.

Today's essentials

A QR code, 4 paragraphs: the Nazi grave in Carcaixent. Carcaixent town hall has installed two posts bearing a QR code next to the grave of Vjekoslav Luburic, the Ustase general who ran the Jasenovac concentration camp, linking to a four-paragraph municipal document that explains who he was, a step required by Spain's Democratic Memory law, according to elDiario.es.

Luburic was a Croatian Ustase general who commanded the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia during the Second World War, elDiario.es reports. Born on 6 March 1913 in Ljubuski, he was nicknamed 'Maks el carnicero' (Maks the butcher), a name that, according to elDiario.es and Euronews, even the Nazis used because of his cruelty. The number of victims at Jasenovac remains deeply disputed among historians and memorial centres, with estimates ranging from tens of thousands to several hundred thousand, so no single figure can be treated as established fact.

How his remains ended up near Valencia is the heart of the story. After 1945 he took refuge in Franco's Spain under the false identity 'Vicente Perez Garcia', settling in Carcaixent, where he ran a printing shop for around two decades, according to elDiario.es. He was assassinated at his Carcaixent home in 1969, in circumstances that were never fully clarified, and has been buried in the municipal cemetery ever since, his grave the first one visible as you walk in.

The plaque is part of a wider procedure. A note from Spain's Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory dated 17 April 2026 added his pantheon to the official catalogue of symbols contrary to Democratic Memory, and the government ordered the removal of the Ustase emblem that had adorned the tomb since 1976. Exhuming the body, however, is not possible without family consent, and elDiario.es notes that Luburic had a son living in Naquera, in the province of Valencia.

What this means for you: if you live in or around Valencia and want to understand how Spain's memory law actually plays out on the ground, Carcaixent offers a concrete, visible case, a municipal QR-code notice standing beside a real grave rather than an abstract debate. Scan it on site and you get the town hall's own four-paragraph account of a chapter of European history that ended, improbably, in the Valencian countryside.

Weather today

Weather today in Valencia: highs near 31 degrees. Open-Meteo forecasts a warm, mostly sunny day in Valencia city for today, Monday 14 September 2026, with lows of 19 degrees, highs of 31 degrees, no rain (0 percent) and wind up to 15 km/h.

In the city itself, expect light cloud and dry conditions all day, ideal for being outdoors, though the afternoon peak near 31 degrees means water and shade are still worth planning for. Inland around Chelva, Open-Meteo gives a fresher start at 14 degrees before climbing to the same 31 degrees under clear skies, with slightly stronger gusts up to 19 km/h.

On the southern coast around Cullera, the day opens under fog with a mild 20 degrees, easing to a gentler high of 29 degrees and wind up to 16 km/h, so early beachgoers should not be surprised by low visibility before the sun burns it off.

Transport & traffic

• Protest stalls the Mislata-Campanar road plan. A residents' protest is challenging the planned new road between Mislata and the Campanar district of Valencia, a scheme combining a road and a bridge that would cut across protected huerta farmland, according to Valencia Extra. For anyone driving between western Valencia and Mislata, the project promised a faster link, but the opposition it has stirred means the route is now far from certain. If the protest succeeds in blocking or reshaping the plan, expect the current bottlenecks on this corridor to stay in place for longer, and the debate over whether to sacrifice a stretch of the city's historic huerta for new tarmac to keep running.

What's changing for you

• 401 public homes to rent from 350 euros a month. You can now apply to rent 401 public homes across the Comunitat Valenciana, 88 of them in the city of Valencia, with rents starting at 350 euros a month, contracts running up to 75 years and units of up to 160 square metres, according to Valencia Secreta. If you are hunting for affordable housing in the region, this is a rare opening worth acting on quickly: the long contracts and low starting rents make these homes highly sought after, so check the official Generalitat Valenciana public-housing listings, confirm the income and residency requirements that apply to your situation, and prepare your paperwork before the application windows fill up.
• Power cuts across 18 towns, 14 to 18 September. Valencia Extra reports that scheduled maintenance on the electricity grid will interrupt supply in 18 localities in the Valencia area between 14 and 18 September, affecting specific streets, house numbers and time slots. Before it hits your street, check Valencia Extra's full list of municipalities, addresses and timings to see if your building is on it, and if so plan around the outage: charge devices, save any work that needs power, and be ready for lifts, routers and refrigeration to go down during the announced window.

Local news to know

• Protest at old F1 circuit over shantytown eviction. Social groups protested at Valencia's former Formula 1 urban circuit against the planned eviction of the roughly 1,000 people living in the shantytown there, with Compromis and the PSPV demanding a rehousing alternative and the application of the housing law in the city, according to elDiario.es.
• Compromis floats a 'Bo Teatre' culture voucher. Compromis has proposed creating a 'Bo Teatre' in Valencia, a theatre voucher modelled on the existing retail one, to make cultural outings more affordable, according to Valencia Plaza.
• First literary-route sculptures ready for bronze. The first sculptures for Valencia's planned literary routes are now ready to be cast in bronze, Valencia Plaza reports, an early step in a project to dot the city with statues of literary and film characters.
• La Pergola brings back its 90s remember session. La Pergola de la Marina in Valencia will revive its 'remember' tardeo on Saturday 10 October to mark the Day of the Comunitat Valenciana, reuniting DJs from the region's best-known 90s clubbing sessions, according to Valencia Bonita.

Things to do today

• Ebro's SUV range on show at ECOMOV Valencia. The Spanish-born Ebro brand is showing its s400, s700, s800 and s900 SUVs with dealer Comercial Moll at ECOMOV Valencia, where you can compare prices, versions and specifications, according to Las Provincias.