City of Arts and Sciences Valencia

Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences is a unique complex devoted to scientific and cultural dissemination which is made up of five main elements: the Hemisferic (IMAX cinema and digital projections), the Umbracle (a landscaped vantage point and car park), the Principe Felipe Science Museum (an innovative centre of interactive science), the Oceanografic (the largest aquarium in Europe with over 500 marine species) and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (which takes care of the operatic programme). The Agora gives the complex a multifunctional space.

Along an axis of just under two kilometres that was formerly the bed of the River Turia, this complex promoted by the Generalitat Valenciana has striking architecture - designed by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela - and an endless capacity for entertaining and stimulating the minds of its visitors.