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The city of the arts and sciences are a set of buildings, of futurist design, built by the most prestigious architects of the moment. It occupies two kilometers of the old riverbed of Turia river.
Five are the buildings that compose this cultural complex: L'Hemisfèric, the Museum of Sciences, L'Umbracle, L'Oceanogràfic and the Palace of the Arts.
In the photo, L'Hemisféric, the first one, and the Palace of the Arts.
L'Hemisfèric is an IMAX cinema and a planetarium.
It was inaugurated in 1998 and was designed by Santiago Calatrava.
On their hemispheric screen of 900 square meters, three different audio-visual spectacles are alternated: astronomical phenomena in the planetarium, films in cinema IMAX, and projections with laser.
In the photo, the Hemisferic, and to the bottom, the Museum of Sciences.
In the image, view of L'Hemisferic. It represents a great open human eye the world, "the eye of the wisdom".
Next to L'Hemisfèric is L'Oceanogràfic, (Oceanographic) the greater marine park of Europe. In their interior, the main marine ecosystems of the world are reproduced: Atlantic, The Mediterranean, The Arctic, Tropical.
It was inaugurated in 2002 and it has a surface of 110,000 square meters. The volume of water of its aquariums is of 42 million liters.
Inside view of the L'Oceanogràfic (Oceanographic). In their aquariums live 45,000 specimens of 500 different species, among them, dolphins, marine lions, seals, sharks... The building was designed by the architect Felix Candela, and inside, has a spectacular submarine restaurant.
Thanks to the use of acrylic materials instead of glass, there are spectacular windows of exhibition, as well as two tunnels under the water, of 30 and 70 meters in length.
View of L'Umbracle. It's a garden and a stroll viewpoint conceived like "a balcony towards the future". It has 320 meters in length, and has 55 metallic arcs on which climbing plants grow.
In addition to the climbing plants, 50 native floral species of the Valencian community have been planted, surrounded by palms, orange trees, shrubs of Valencia, ground cover plants, aromatic plants, etc. The most abundant species is the bougainvillea, in all its varieties (violet, red, orange, yellow and white).
Outside view of the Sciences Museum 'Prince Felipe'.
Inaugurated at the end of the 2000, the Museum of Sciences is a spectacular building of 40,000 square meters dedicated to approach the science to the visitors.
The museum objective is the spreading of science and technology, so, it animates the visitors to participate actively in the experiments.
Outside view of the Sciences Museum Prince Felipe.
This building, built by Santiago Calatrava, has an approximated surface of 40,000 square meters. It has three floors of 8000m2, each one.
This museum has been designed to lodge thematic exhibitions related to science and the technology.
