Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (City of Arts and Sciences)
by night

- El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, L'Hemisfèric, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, L'Oceanogràfic, L'Àgora, L'Umbracle, El Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Torre de Francia, Centro Commercial El Saler

Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (City of Arts and Sciences), is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex that was developed in the late 1990s and 2000s, situated to the East of the city centre. The futuristic buildings are designed by the world famous Valencian architects Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, and are surrounded by pools. It is as important to visit as the historical city centre, and you can easily get here by bus. At City of Arts and Sciences you find a futuristic atmosphere with exciting buildings in imanative shapes, most of them with white facades, blue water pounds, palm trees, bridges and sculptures, surrounded by some of Valencia's tallest highrises, busy roads, shopping malls and department stores. All is

centered around 8 structures: El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, an interactive science museum with impressive architecture that resembles the skeleton of a whale and covers 40,000 m², L'Hemisfèric, a curvy IMAX theatre that was one of the first of the futuristic buildings built on the site (1998), El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, a huge opera house designed by Calatrava, is the world's tallest opera, and has an extremely interesting oval shape, it opened in 2005, is 80m tall and 230m long, L'Oceanogràfic that is Europe's largest oceanographic aquarium and was built in the shape of water lilies, L'Àgora, the latest and tallest building (86m), a blue shell shaped building for concerts, exhibitions and sporting events inaugurated in 2009, L'Umbracle, a tropical garden and El Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, a very cool 125m high suspension bridge that is the tallest structure in Valencia.

This page is about the science area at sunset and in the evening, after dark.