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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