Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

The Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueología can be found in the La Beneficencia Cultural Center, which incorporates various museums and a gallery for temporary exhibitions on a wide variety of subjects.
This cultural centre is also quite close to the IVAM museum. This museum is where you will find the valuable pieces found on archaeological excavations undertaken by the Service of Prehistoric Investigation.
It constitutes perhaps one of the finest museographic collections in Spain. Its exhibition halls trace the evolution of Valencians and their instruments from the Palaeolithic to the late Roman era. The cultural center has a shop with a good variety of books [...]

The Valencian traditional society has passed us down a whole wealth of culture enabling us to find out how people really lived in this part of the world.
This includes photographs, eyewitness accounts and items which constituted our way of living and understanding the world, documenting techniques, practices and ideological representations, everyday objects which speak to us about those who created and used them.
Recovering these materials is one of the raisons d’être of the Museu Valencià d’Etnologia, set up by the Diputació de València (provincial authority) in 1982 exists. The Museum has a permanent exhibition, although still being developed, split into five areas defining [...]

The Museo Histórico Militar was opened on the 12th of May, 1995 by the Military district commander of the East D. Agustín Quesada Go’mez.
The museum was created “for a better and wider knowledge of the Army, at the request of Lt. Gen. Don Agustin Quesada Gomez, Head of Regional Command” Levante “, as indicated in the commemorative plaque placed at the entrance.
Located in the area of San Juan de la Ribera (North) on the Paseo de la Alameda, it was built in 1898 for an Infantry Regiment. It has been occupied successively as a result of the various reorganizations of the Army, infantry [...]

Catedral Valencia
Centrally located on the Plaza de la Reina, this is the religious centre of Valencia and one of the city’s landmarks.
Many centuries ago, it used to be a mosque, but when El Cid conquered the city, it became a Roman Catholic cathedral. Later the city was re-conquered by the Muslims as part of the Arab Moorish invasion of Spain and the South of France. The cathedral again became a mosque.
Later, when the Christian King Jaume I  re-conquered Valencia it reverted to a Christian cathedral. The Miguelete bell tower (El Miguelete) is a hexagonal Gothic tower towering over Plaza de la Reina. [...]

The Central Market of Valencia is constructed in a modernist style and was built in 1914.
The designers, Francisco Guard Vial and Alexander Soler, both trained at the School of Architecture of Barcelona and worked closely with Domènech i Montaner, an architect who characterized himself as a modernist.
There is great beauty in the architecture as well as the tradition and history of the market. The combination of metal, glass and the Gothic columns is a testament to modernism, as if the Market is a cathedral to the commerce-centre it once was.
The market is located at the Plaza del Mercado, next to La Lonja [...]

The Towers of Highlands (or Door of Highlands) were constructed at the end of 14th century.
Their initial function was to serve as fortification, a fact that testifies to their heavy walls and their solidiness, but they were generally used for ceremonies and official entrances for important personalities that visited the city, the main reason why they are considered to be the main entrance to the city of Valencia.
Their name seems to come from the fact that they are located approximately to the northwest, therefore, they were the natural entrance that communicated with the ways to the Highlands (the Camino Real of Saragossa, that [...]

Valencia has never had a bridge as versatile as it is in the port. It started as a step drawbridge, continued as fixed and is now part of the dial to the Formula 1 street circuit.
The Port was proud of their bridge, a double-leaf bascule bridge for road and rail traffic, but quickly found it would no longer have its original use as a cargo entry point, when Valencia was designated to host the 32nd edition of the Copa America.
Therefore the port had to undergo a transformation and the cargo ships would cease to enter the inner harbour, this area would only be [...]