City of Arts and Sciences
Guide
Photo: Jcca76 · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeSightAllow 1–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A row of huge white buildings like skeletons, eyes and shells, rising from shallow turquoise pools at the end of the Turia gardens: a science museum, an opera house, a domed cinema and Europe's biggest aquarium.
A brief history
Most of it was designed by Santiago Calatrava, who was born in Valencia, and built from the late 1990s on part of the old riverbed.
Tips
- Best time
- Late afternoon into dusk, when the buildings glow and reflect in the water
- Cost
- Free outside; each building charges (check)
- Allow
- 1–2 h
- Free days
- Always free to walk around
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Good to know
- Area
- City of Arts and Sciences: The white futuristic complex at the seaward end of the Turia gardens.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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