Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

On June 28, 2001 the Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat opened to the public, better known as the MuVIM it had to overcame problems caused by the emergence of complex archaeological remains in the surrounding landscaping.
It is located in a stark building, the architectural work of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Seville, and falls under the Provincial Council of Valencia.  Dedicated to the field of art known as the beginning of the Enlightenment it also extends its content to include the study and analysis of modernity.  It also has a showroom that plans to integrate part of the program organized by the [...]

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.

The Mercado de Colón is located in the extension of the city between Columbus Street and Gran Via Marques de Turia in what was formerly the gas works of the Marquis de Campo.
It was designed in 1914 by Francisco Mora Berenguer (1875-1961) who studied at the School of Architecture in Barcelona and had direct contact with the Catalan modernism, especially the work of Gaudí, Puig , Domenech i Montaner and the design ideas of his professors Antonio M. ª Gallissà i Soque and Joan Torras i Guardiola.
Mora’s works were not considered modernist in his day. Mora’s modernism like Domenech i Montaner and Puig [...]

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 [...]

El Almudin
Constructed in the 16th century the El Almudin building in Valencia served as a warehouse. This gave rise to the name “almudin” from Arabic. The structure was used to store the grain for the city.
Originally it would have a much smaller build but it has been expanded over the centuries XV and XVI to take on the appearance it has today. For example, the porch was built in the first half of the sixteenth century and the original building would have had an open central courtyard but  in the early seventeenth century  it was joined by the cover, giving the image of [...]

Estacion del Norte is located in the heart of the city of Valencia, next to the Bullring and just 200m from the Town Hall.
It was built between 1906 and 1917 and took advantage of the urban transformation happening in the city at the time to settle in an enormous empty space. It is one of the most important monuments of civil architecture of the city.
The work, designed by architect Demetrio Ribes is part of the modernist style and you can appreciate the influences of the European side of the Secession, a modernism characterized by straight lines as opposed to the more typical sinuous [...]

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.
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The Iglesia Santa Maria del Mar is one of the best preserved Rennaisance churches in Valencia. Its origin dates from the early days of the conquest by King Jaime I of Aragon.
It is named in historical documents dating as far back as 1333 and 1392. In the descriptions of this ancient building, there is a visual record from 1563 in which the Flemish painter Van den Anthoine Wijngaerde Grao shows the appearance of Valencia and from the view you can see the church.
There is limited information on this stunning church but it has been recorded that originally it was a single-nave temple 25 [...]