Valencia · Spain

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias

City of Arts and Sciences

MuseumCulture photo spotgoogle verified

~240 min

easy

10/10

best: morning

contemplative

A local would say...

A sci-fi city of titanium and glass in a drained riverbed — Europe's largest aquarium and most futuristic cultural complex

Santiago Calatrava's soaring City of Arts and Sciences occupies a massive 350,000-sq-metre swath of the old Turia riverbed. It's a series of breathtaking futuristic buildings — the Oceanogràfic aquarium (the largest in Europe), the Hemisfèric IMAX planetarium (shaped like a human eye), the Palau de les Arts opera house, and the Museu de les Ciències. Like a science-fiction city dropped into the Mediterranean sun.