Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

Oktoberfest 2010 – A celebration of beer is inspired by the mythical Oktoberfest that is celebrated every year in Munich (Germany).
The first Oktoberfest was celebrated between the 12th and 17th of October in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of prince Luis I to the princess Teresa de Saxony Altenburg.
After the success of the first celebration it was continued year after year, moving to the end of September to take advantage of better weather. This celebration attracts more than 6 million visitors who come from a large extent from countries like Italy, the USA, Japan, Australia and Spain and as well as Africa and [...]

The Museum of the City of Valencia is currently showing the exhibition “”En el camino”, in which the artist Horacio Silva shapes the impressions that a trip to China gave him.
Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one of the majors errors of its race because at present it is enchanting to make this sample.
Although the subject of the exhibition is appellant, the trips continue being a constant for this artist. The exhibition houses pictures not only from the trip to China, but also of others. [...]

The Fine Arts Museum is currently showing the exhibition “The birth of a painting from the visible to the invisible
This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the past were unable to imagine that future researchers would get look at their designs, which reveal the personality of their strokes, full of vigor and beauty.
The study of these drawings, which have remained hidden for so many years  helps determine the tools and painting materials used by artists, [...]

The Municipal Palace, now called the Palacio de la Exposicion, is located in a privileged environment of the city with excellent transport links and surrounded by open spaces.
It was once part of the various buildings constructed for the Regional Exhibition held in Valencia in 1909, which were mostly were demolished when the contest ended. Only a few buildings were saved from the demolition and were reused for other purposes, including the Palace of the Exposition.
The building was assigned by the City of Valencia to the prestigious architect Francisco Mora Berenguer, who had to build this palace in only seventy days to comply with [...]

Estadio Mestalla is the home ground of Valencia Club de Fútbol. With a capacity of 55,000 seats, it ranks as the fifth-largest stadium in Spain.
It is also renowned for its steep terracing and being one of the most intimidating atmospheres in all of Europe in which to play.
In the near future, the team is expected to move into the Nou Mestalla, a state-of-the-art stadium with a seating capacity of 75,000, located in Valencia, but due to the Valencia CF’s financial crisis, it’s unknown when the stadium will be completed.
On 20 May 1923, the Estadio Mestalla was inaugurated with a friendly match that [...]

Nou Mestalla is a football stadium still under construction for Valencia CF.
The stadium will have a capacity of 73,200 when finished. and will replace their current stadium Estadio Mestalla. Designed by Reid Fenwick Asociados and ArupSport the cost is estimated between 250 and 300 million Euros. The ground will have a futuristic exterior, clad in aluminium with an interior of wood and is being built on the site of a former factory in the neighbourhood of Benicalap.
The plans for the new stadium were unveiled in 2006 and on the 10th November 2006 former president Juan Soler and the club unveiled details about the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]