A Guide to Life in Valencia

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 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.

Nights at l’Oceanogràfic, which is taking place from 16th to 31st July this year, will be a multimedia theatrical show.
This event uses different artistic disciplines to look at the history and cultural tradition of the Mediterranean basin through mythology.
A fusion between two worlds, that of humans and of nature, told through music, light, sound and [...]

The Parque de Cabecera extends the green area of the dried out river bed and continues on to the diverted river. It is an ideal place to enjoy with kids.
The park has two main sections, the Montaña Mirador and the Bosque de Ribera Mediterraneo which recreates the original landscape of the Turia River.
Found at the [...]

Jardínes De Ayora
The Ayora Gardens are beautifully laid out, tranquil and peaceful and have a beautifully constructed modernist small palace, which was built in 1900.
The City council of Valencia bought the grounds of the Gardens of Ayora 1976 and began a long restoration and cleaning process of the gardens which had been left to [...]

The Jardines del Real, more commonly known as the Jardines de Viveros, is a delightful Valencia park featuring fragrant rose gardens, shady pine trees, statues to admire and benches to sit back and revel in the atmosphere.
These gardens are locally known as the Breeding grounds because in 1903 they were  given to the city council [...]

VALENCIA grew alongside the river Turia for many years until the devastating flood of 1957.
It was then decided that living alongside the river imposed a huge risk and the river was diverted. Today, the Turia’s old riverbed is the largest urban garden in Spain.
The old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park that allows [...]

The Museo de Ciencias Naturales of Valencia is a hidden jewel in another corner of Turia city, the Royal Gardens, better known as Viveros.
It’s not a very well known museum and therefore rarely crowded. So much so it doesn’t even have its own website!
It is a home to an enormous collection of ancient fossils [...]

The main attraction in the Turia riverbed is Parque Gulliver.
This is an amazing play area based around the figure of the mythical Gulliver, tied to the ground by the inhabitants of Lilliput. The slides provide hours of fun for children and adults and its completely free.

Prince Felipe Museum of Science is part of Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.
The building was designed by Santiago Calatrava and was built in a joint venture of Fomento de Construcciones and Contratas and Necso. It was opened on 13th November 2000.
The building was designed in 1991 and construction began in 1996. It is [...]