Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

On November 11, 1949 the Reales Atarazanas were declared National Historic-Artistic Monument.
The history of the shipyards goes back many centuries. The King of Aragon, Peter III the Great (1276-1285) in 1284 granted leave to the Consuls of the city to construct a place to build and repair boats and so the Reales Atarazanas, a stunning, spacious gothic style structure was created.
With the continued growth of the port of Valencia it was later recommended there should be a construction of a stable, a place where they could build and repair various ships and would also serve as a naval store. This was agreed on [...]

La Casa-Museo Concha is the house where Concha Piquer was born.
On the ninety-fifth anniversary of her birth (Valencia, 1906-Madrid, 1990), Valencia City Council paid tribute to the memory of the famous artist from Valencia and created La Casa-Museo Concha Piquer dedicated to her and her life.
The house rises on a rectangular surface with windows and recayentes balconies to the street of Ruaya and to the street of the Nugget. The ground floor is  a diaphanous room with a permanent exhibition of abundant graphical documentation, personal items, material objects, records, close memories detailing her life. Audiovisual displays  have also been especially [...]

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 [...]

The Museum of Beautiful Arts of Valencia, also known as the Painting Museum of the Carmen, Provincial Museum of Beautiful Arts, or more recently the Museum San Pío V from the building that hosts it, is one of the most important in the Valencian Community as far as historical paintings go.
It is formed by a great pinacoteca and an ample floor of drawings and engravings, besides sculptures, archaeological pieces, architectonic fragments, decorative photographs and arts. Its history is long and risky, with of ups and downs of all types, in which stages and moments of crisis are laid out, but it always leads [...]

The church of San Juan del Hospital is one of the most interesting monuments in the city.
The historical place of San Juan Hospital has in its interior the oldest church of Valencia. It was founded in the 13th century (1238) by the Sovereign Military order and San Juan de Jerusalem.
Jaime I then made a donation in gratitude of lands located next to the door of the Xerea. Perhaps the passer by may ask is that a hospital?, since has never seen doctors or patients. It was based on the days of the crossed ones and for the care an order was created. One [...]