Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

Sponge Bob and his friends arrive at the Oceanographic aquarium on December 22 to January 9!
Come and see Bikini Bottom in all its seaweed glory. Plus, from December 24 to January 6 you can meet  Sponge Bob himself at the Oceanographic!
The whole area is amazingly constructed under water. This underwater aquarium holds 45,000 aquatic creatures of 500 species. These include invertebrates, reptiles, birds and fish. Visitors can see the deadly sharks swimming inches away from the protective glass panels. Penguins, sea lions, dolphins, beluga whales, walruses and many more aquatic species move freely in this gigantic aquarium. No aquarium would be complete without [...]

L’Hemisfèric in Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences invites you to dive into the mysterious waters of Arabia, a fantastic adventure that will take you to the lost city of Madain Saleh.
This unique building shaped to symbolise a big human eye is a window to the outside, a balcony that will allow you to glimpse at other worlds and have incredible experiences thanks to the shows, projections and activities held regularly in its facilities.
The projection room, which can seat over 300 people, has a 900 square metre concave screen, 24 metres in diameter, which will allow you to enjoy to the full Arabia, [...]

Science and science fiction come together from the 22nd July to the 22nd February 2011 on the third floor of the Science Museum at the City of Arts and Sciences.
There will be a massive “Star Trek” exhibition which will give visitors the chance to see real props and costumes from this legendary series for the first time ever in Europe, in a meticulously assembled set that will beam them up to the star ship ‘Enterprise’
The replica of the bridge, a flight simulator, models and real objects can all be seen in the exhibition on this series that actually did see into the future [...]

The Umbracle at the City of Arts and Sciences is holding Europe’s biggest ever exhibition of robotic dinosaurs, showing what these colossal creatures that populated the planet for 200 million years were actually like.

On your first visit to the city of Valencia and to the Museo Fallero, located in a former Vincentian convent, you may find it hard to understand what exactly a falla is and what this Museum means.
Basically, fallas can be described as satirical monuments. They are models made of combustible materials (cardboard, wood, etc.) that are erected in public squares and at main crossroads and then burnt on the night of 19 March, St Joseph’s Day.
The monuments are made by specialist falleros with the help and encouragement of resident’s committees in all the different districts that spend the whole year preparing the annual [...]

The Lonja de la Seda in Valencia is a late Valencian Gothic style civil building built between 1482 and 1548, and is one of the principal tourist attractions in the city.
You need to go in and look up and the spectacular structure. It has the most amazing  spiral-shaped columns holding up the roof and an abundance of stone decorations round the doors and the gargoyles.
UNESCO considered La Lonja as a World Heritage Site in 1996 since “the site is of outstanding universal value as it is a wholly exceptional example of a secular building in late Gothic style, which dramatically illustrates the power [...]

The Museo de la Ciudad is dedicated to the history of the Valencia area and stands in the Old Quarter.
It houses an archeological collection illustrating the pre-Roman age and the founding of the city, and a part of the municipal art gallery.
The Museo de la Ciudad is a former palace of nobles, currently housing 15th to 20th century art from the collections of the Valencian government and private homes. Almost all of the painting and scupltures are by Valencian artists. Some are good, some are bad, but all are unknown. If you like art you could find this interesting – it is a [...]

Casa Palau Juan de Valeriola
The Valeriola Casa-Palau in the city of Valencia is representative of civil Gothic buildings dating from the XIV century. Built in the14th century, the palace has outstanding stone arches, typical Romanesque windows and wooden ceilings.
The palace was the residence of the influential gentleman Joan Valeriola, descendant of Arnau Valleriola, the most important financier in Valencia in the 14th century. The last member of the family to occupy the palace was Gaspar, who was related to the Borja family after marrying Anna de Borja, Pope Alexander the 6th’s niece, between the XV and XVI.
Sometime [...]

The Museo Del Arroz is found in an old rice mill built at the beginning of XX century in the Cabanyal de Valencia district.
The building was restored by the Town Hall, and the machinery renovated by the Polytechnic University so you can observe how rice used to be treated at the beginning of the century.
The museum aims to show you, in a direct and indirect manner, not just the process of transformation from paddy rice fields unfit for consumption, but also to bring a global perspective of the product to include agriculture and consumption of the grain, rooted in their culture.
Rice has [...]

Museo Del Gremio De Artistas Falleros takes you on a journey of the ninot creation.
The profession of fallero artist is long and hard. The artist has always arranged his work with the orders of decoration, construction of floats and in the last few years, the accomplishment of fair stands and the theming of spaces for for the whole Fallas performance.
With new materials and the collaboration of designers with each other there has been an evolution of the activity of the fallero artist to continue creating decorations that need lasting and resistant construction for the use of the ninots and also to withstand the [...]