Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

Playa de El Saler
El Saler beach really is the jewel in the crown of the Valencia coast, it is a breathtaking blue flag beach.
Bountiful white sand, dunes, crystal clear blue water and gentle breezes makes El Saler is top quality. This is really is Valencian beaching at its best.
El Saler is only half an hour bus trip from the centre of Valencia and does become extremely popular on the international level in the summer. If you want the same quality and lesser crowds you should carry on to La Devesa.

The Hemisfèric is part of Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.
The Hemisfèric was the first building in the City of Arts and Sciences to open its doors to the public in 1998.
This spectacular construction was designed by the Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava, with an ovoid roof spanning over 100 metres that contains the large sphere that constitutes the projection room of the IMAX cinema.

L’Hemisféric
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Combined tickets for other venues in the complex can also be purchased.

The Umbracle at the City of Arts and Sciences is a spectacular gardened esplanade with incredible views to the whole complex.
The Umbracle is a vantage point of over 17,500 square metres from which all the buildings, lakes, walkways, and landscaped areas of the City of Arts and Sciences can be viewed.
Its vegetation is characteristic of the Region of Valencia and changes according to the season of the year. It also contains an exhibition of contemporary sculptures by internationally acknowledged artists.
Beneath L’Umbracle is the car park for the City of Arts and Sciences which has room for 690 light vehicles and 20 coaches [...]

The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia was founded in 1567.
Throughout 200 years it was an orchard of medicinal plants for Medicinal studies. Until the 19th century it occupied diverse locations in the city of Valencia. It was in 1802 when it definitively located it to the University in the Orchard of Tramoyeres, outside the walls of the city, in the environs of the convent of San Sebastián, near the Towers of Quart.
Throughout the 19th century botany classes were held and the acclimatization of plants of agricultural interest was studied. During the 20th century, the Botanists underwent a long period of [...]

Try to catch an excellent exhibit called Modern India at the IVAM. Visitors were taken a tour of India’s history, from colonialism to the present day, through the eyes of its artists.
A large, comprehensive exhibit, filled with oil paintings, sculptures, photography, and audio-visual displays, Modern India provided an excellent couple hours of escapism.
If you didn’t get to see it, hopefully the pictures in this post provide an acceptable substitute. The exhibit was split into 6 periods, organized by time. The first two detail the colonial period, when the British ruled, then slowly lost their grip on the subcontinent. Things got psychedelic, as [...]

Welcome to the 75th Ninot Exhibition.

Ninots are tiny figures (compared to the big huge Fallas) which are placed within a Fallas exhibit. They provide some humor, often reflecting on the happenings of the past year.
It’s similar to the Carnival  from Germany and other places from around the world. The exhibit is a nice way to take a closer look at the often beautiful and artistic figures before they’re placed on the streets during La Planta and finally burned on La Crema.
One thing is certain – all the Ninots are burnt, except for the one saved by a public vote. [...]

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 [...]