2008-10-10

Valencia’s City of Arts and Science

The City of Arts and Science is Valencia’s “city of the future” a huge complex of museums, it has an incredible 60-foot entrance with 55 arches. The city is vitually underwater and includes an aquarium, science museum, planetarium and a performing arts center.

The Oceanographic, is the largest marine park in Europe with a series of parabolic buildings - don’t miss the high-tech tour of the world’s marine habitats.

The Prince Felipe Museum of Science is installed in the roof that is in the shape of a a dinosaur’s spine, it includes a 130-foot transparent wall. This is an interesting child-friendly interactive museum with holograms and lasers.

Yet another part of the complex is The Hemispheric the state-of-the-art planetarium which has an IMAX theatre which shows various films throughout the days and weeks.

A combined ticket for all the attractions which can be used over three days, for further details see their website.