Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

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 [...]

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 [...]

Casa Museo Jose Benlliure
This beautiful museum was constructed in a classicist style in 1885.
It was acquired later by Jose Benlliure, who added a Mediterranean garden to it, using some elements of the demolished convent of San Francisco. The house recreates the bourgeois life of the end of the XIX. It has been perfectly renovated and restored, maintaining much of the original garden and features.
It now houses paintings, sculptures, drawings and pieces of ceramics that were not only admired, but also made by Jose Benlliure, Mariano his brother and his son Peppino, as well as works of Sorolla, Muñoz Degrain and other artists.

This casa museo was bought and reformed by the famous Spanish novelist Blasco Ibanez (“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”) and now houses his personal items and memrobilia.
The reconstructed villa of insigne Valencian writer is framed against the beach of Malvarrosa, and turned today into a House-Museum, it lodges personal memories, objects, and literary works. There is also an ample garden, that makes the visit more attractive, by the sensation of placidness and beauty.
The novelist, journalist, politician, and war correspondent Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia in 1867. He was outspoken against the monarchy and was imprisoned 30 times for political activism [...]