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• Príncipe Felipe Science Museum. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Avenida Autopista del Saler 1-7. 46013. Valencia. www.cac.es. A museum designed to touch, feel and think. This is one of the areas that make up the Arts and Sciences Centre. The Príncipe Felipe Science Museum building was designed by famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. It has three floors, …

• “Fallas” Museum. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Plaza Monteolivete 4. 46006. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963487408 | E-mail: gremio@gremiodeartistasfalleros.com. http://www.gremiodeartistasfalleros.com/museo.html. Saved from the fire. The ninots (gigantic cardboard, wood and plaster figures) that are spared from burning every year by popular vote are on …

• Palau de la Música auditorium. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Paseo de la Alameda 30. 46023. Valencia. E-mail: info@palauvalencia.com. www.palaudevalencia.com. Its acoustics have received unanimous praise and it is considered one of Europe's best auditoriums. Inaugurated in 1987, it is located alongside the Turia Gardens and is one of Valencia's most emblemati…

• Estación del Norte Station. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Calle Xátiva 24. 46007. Valencia. This Modernist building was inaugurated in 1917 and is in the style known as "Viennese Secession". Estación del Norte station is one of the city's finest examples of civil architecture. Whether looking the exterior or the interior finish, it shows a unique, homogeno…

• Quart Towers. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Avenida Guillem de Castro 89. 46003. Valencia. www.turisvalencia.es. Part of the old medieval defensive wall. This medieval military construction also served as the women's prison. They were built in the 15th century by Pere Bofill. These two towers, cylindrical on the outside and flat behind, are a…

• La Exposición Bridge. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Calle del Justicia - Paseo de la Alameda. 46002. Valencia. www.turisvalencia.es. This is one of the architectural elements most emblematic of Valencia's avant-garde atmosphere. Traditionally known as La Peineta (an ornamental comb) on account of its unique shape, the bridge was designed by Spanish a…

• Museum of the Patriarch. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle de la Nave 1. 46002. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963511351 | http://www.turisvalencia.es/es/museos/museo/7462. Paintings in beautiful surroundings. Here you can see highly valuable works of art, with various canvasses by El Greco and the early Flemish painters standing out especially. The museum is wi…

• González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle Poeta Querol 2. 46002. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963513512 | E-mail: informacion@mceramica.mcu.es. mnceramica.mcu.es. Ceramics from prehistoric times to Picasso. This museum was inaugurated in 1954 and is located in the Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas. It contains an important collection of ceram…

• Plaza Redonda Square. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Confluencia de calles Pescadería, Vallanca y Síndico. 46001. Valencia. www.turisvalencia.es. Plaza Redonda square stands out for its shape and bustling commerce. This unusual work by Salvador Escrig Melchor dates from the 19th century. It was designed with commerce in mind - circular so as to form a…

• Santa Catalina Church and Tower. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de Santa Catalina s/n. 46001. Valencia. Santa Catalina Church is one of the oldest in Valencia. The church dates from the Middle Ages, and is built on the site of a former mosque. It is the only Gothic church in the city with a retrochoir in the transept, the same as you will find in the Cathe…

• Central Market. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza del Mercado s/n. 46001. Valencia. E-mail: informacion@mercadocentralvalencia.es. www.mercadocentralvalencia.es. This grand Modernist building was designed in 1914, although not inaugurated until 1928. The Central Market in Valencia covers more than 8,000 square metres, over two floors, with a …

• Los Santos Juanes Church. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza del Mercado s/n. 46001. Valencia. This church is known as San Juan del Mercado. It was already in existence in the 13th century, but was rebuilt in Gothic style in the 14th century after a fire. A nave with ogive vaulted ceiling remains from that period. In the 16th century it suffered another…

• El Miguelete Tower. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de la Reina s/n. 46001. Valencia. www.catedraldevalencia.es. Gothic-style tower adjoining the cathedral. This is one of the city's most emblematic monuments, and is located beside the main door of the cathedral. From the top it offers outstanding views over Valencia and its fertile agricultura…

• Diocesan-Cathedral Museum. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Plaza de la Reina s/n. 46003. Valencia. http://www.catedraldevalencia.es/arte_museo.php. Painting, sculpture and precious metalwork. The museum was created in 1761 and is set in the Santo Cáliz Chapel of Valencia Cathedral. It has two large canvasses painted by Goya in 1799, depicting San Francisco …

• The Silk Exchange. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza del Mercado s/n. 46001. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963529634 | E-mail: lonja@valencia.es. www.turisvalencia.es. The jewel of European Gothic civil architecture. Built in the 15th century, the Silk Exchange is Valencia's Gothic monument par excellence. The majority of the "Lonja" (silk exchange) was b…

• Monforte Gardens. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Plaza de la Legión Española s/n. 46010. Valencia. http://www.valencia.es. Their origins go back to 1860-1870, when some of the vegetable gardens were transformed into Neoclassical-style gardens with a small palace. There are three different areas: the Parterre Viejo, old parterre, with clipped Europ…

• Valencia Cathedral. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de la Reina s/n. 46003. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963918120 | E-mail: cabildo.metropolitano@catedraldevalencia.es. www.catedraldevalencia.es. The Cathedral, in the Gothic style, is Valencia's largest church, and its Miguelete Tower is one of the emblems of the city. The Cathedral was built on the si…

• Turia Gardens. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Antiguo cauce del Turia. 46010. Valencia. E-mail: info@culturia.org. http://www.turisvalencia.es/es/que-visitar-valencia/parques-y-jardines/jardines-del-turia/7411. Turia Gardens were created at the end of the 20th century as a result of the diversion of the river to a new artificial course, south o…

• Valencia Museum of Fine Arts. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle San Pío V 9. 46010. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963870301 | E-mail: museobellasartesvalencia@gva.es. http://www.museobellasartesvalencia.gva.es/. Valencian brushstrokes. The Valencia Museum of Fine Arts is set in a 17th-century Baroque building. The gallery mainly comprises the work of Valencia artist…

• Serranos Towers. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza Fueros s/n. 46003. Valencia. www.turisvalencia.es. This is a gateway in the defensive wall dating from the late Middle Ages. It was built by the master stonemason Pere Balaguer in the 14th century to defend one of the busiest points of access to old Valencia. It comprises two pentagonal struct…

• Old Almudín Building. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza San Luis Bertrán s/n. 46003. Valencia. www.turisvalencia.es. This building is merchant in type.Built on the site of a Moslem fortress at the end of the XIV century;its function was one of warehouse to deposit and send wheat.Over the XV and XVI centuries it was made bigger.Of note on the facade…

• Virgen de los Desamparados Basilica. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de la Virgen s/n. 46003. Valencia. E-mail: info@basilicadesamparados.org. www.basilicadesamparados.org. This Baroque church, dedicated to the city's patron saint, was the most important religious building constructed in Valencia in the 17th century. The Basilica was built between 1652 and 1667…

• Valencia Regional Government Palace. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Caballeros, 2. 46001. Valencia. http://www.valencia.es. A Flamboyant Gothic building, built in 1421 as the seat of the Valencian Autonomous Government, in charge of representing Valencia before the Courts. The palace is divided into three storeys, with rectangular windows on the ground floor, triple…

• El Real Gardens. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Calle San Pío V s/n. 46010. Valencia. http://www.valencia.es.   The El Real Gardens have a rectangular layout, where the central point is always marked by a fountain or a pavilion. As in the Reales Alcázares Palace in Seville, colour plays a key role in the form of ceramic tiles and topiary plants. …

• Valencia University Botanical Gardens. Valencia.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Calle Quart 80. 46008. Valencia. Fax.: +34 963156826 | E-mail: botanic@uv.es. http://www.jardibotanic.org/. Today's botanical gardens date from 1802, when the first curator created a permanent garden on the site of the Huerto de Tramoyeres, arranged in different beds according to the botanical class…