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TIP: The new AVE high-speed train connects Madrid with Valencia in only 1h 35min. If you are visiting Madrid, a day trip to the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia is a reality now. And if you are in Valencia, you can go sample Madrid and maybe even have lunch in the oldest restaurant in the world.
If you love Santiago Calatrava's work as much as I do, or you know somebody who does, here's the perfect gift - Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works.
- Best Places To Visit In Valencia, Spain
Over the years, I've been asked many times why I love Valencia so much. I always give the same answer - it felts like the perfect city to me! To both of us! And I guess it was love at first sight. The City of Arts and Sciences Valencia changed...
- Milwaukee Art Museum Gives Tribute To Impressionism
Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper is the first exhibition to explore the drawings famous Western European impressionists like Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne,Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec left behind. The Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper exhibition...
- City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia - Juan Ripollés Exhibition
Juan Ripollés Exhibition, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia I've just came back from a chilly walk under a perfect blue sky. This Sunday I visited a pretty unusual exhibition at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, the impressive...
- Spain To Have The Largest High-speed Rail Network In The World
The new high-speed train Madrid-ValenciaVisiting Madrid? Have you considered a day trip to Valencia too? Of course not; almost four hours by train one way barely leaves any time to visit the city. But that's about to change. On the 18th of December...
- Biggest Star Trek Exhibition In Europe
Star Trek Exhibition at the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia Have you ever wanted to visit a starship? For the next few months Star Trek is moving to one of the most futuristic buildings in the world. I couldn't resist temptation and today...
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The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
The City of Arts and Sciences is an ensemble of six futuristic buildings in the riverbed of what was once the Turia River and today is the beautiful Turia Gardens. Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela, the City of Arts and Sciences is an impressive example of modern architecture, offering an endless capacity for entertaining and stimulating the minds of its visitors. No wonder photographers from all over the world flock to Valencia to take their chances with the enchanted city as the site became an international landmark.
The City of Arts and Sciences is surrounded by Mediterranean blue waters and it is covered in pure white concrete and shattered tile fragments that beautifully sparkle in the sun, forming a puzzle. The complex is a 'city within a city' that looks as it might have been beamed down to earth from another planet. Which is almost true, if you take into consideration that images from the complex have been used in creating Atrium City from the new 'V' series ;)
These buildings look so out of this world in fact that all photos of the City of Arts and Sciences have a guaranteed 'wow' effect. But shooting the same six buildings, no matter how impressive they might be, it's limiting. And this is precisely why it became a fashion lately for the photographers to use HDR and play with their photos further, trying to give new dimensions to the place. I don't like HDR photography all that much, but I just love the way the City Of Arts And Sciences looks processed like this. It can never be overdone and it never gets old.
Further reading: 30 things to do in Valencia
Further reading: 30 things to do in Valencia
In the above picture you can see the Hemispheric, housing an IMAX cinema, planetarium and laserium (on the left) and the Opera House (on the right). The complex also includes an interactive science museum resembling the skeleton of a whale (third image), an Oceanographic park, which is the largest aquarium in Europe, with over 500 marine species, a newly built sports arena, and a promenade.
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| Hemisferic at City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia |
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| The science museum at City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia |
If you love Santiago Calatrava's work as much as I do, or you know somebody who does, here's the perfect gift - Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works.
- Best Places To Visit In Valencia, Spain
Over the years, I've been asked many times why I love Valencia so much. I always give the same answer - it felts like the perfect city to me! To both of us! And I guess it was love at first sight. The City of Arts and Sciences Valencia changed...
- Milwaukee Art Museum Gives Tribute To Impressionism
Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper is the first exhibition to explore the drawings famous Western European impressionists like Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne,Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec left behind. The Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper exhibition...
- City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia - Juan Ripollés Exhibition
Juan Ripollés Exhibition, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia I've just came back from a chilly walk under a perfect blue sky. This Sunday I visited a pretty unusual exhibition at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, the impressive...
- Spain To Have The Largest High-speed Rail Network In The World
The new high-speed train Madrid-ValenciaVisiting Madrid? Have you considered a day trip to Valencia too? Of course not; almost four hours by train one way barely leaves any time to visit the city. But that's about to change. On the 18th of December...
- Biggest Star Trek Exhibition In Europe
Star Trek Exhibition at the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia Have you ever wanted to visit a starship? For the next few months Star Trek is moving to one of the most futuristic buildings in the world. I couldn't resist temptation and today...