Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]