Calatrava's Valencia
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Port
Valencia, Spain
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Activity Level
Moderate Activity
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Excursion Type
All
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Wheelchair Accessible
No
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Starting At (prices in USD)
$220
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Minimum Age
Information Not Currently Available
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Duration
Approximately 3¾ Hours
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Meals Included
Meals not included
The city of Valencia is known for its dense monumental heritage, but its greatest architectural landmark may well be the relatively new City of Arts & Sciences -- an avant-garde and futuristic museum complex. World-renowned Valencia-born architect Santiago Calatrava produced the complex that contains an opera house/performing arts center, a science museum, an IMAX cinema/planetarium, and an oceanographic park. The Music Palace (Palau de la Música) is another fascinating example of modern architecture in Valencia. Feel and see Valencia through Calatrava's eyes as your guide explains from outside the buildings the technical and architectural wonders of three of the most important masterpieces of Calatrava:
The Umbracle -- a monumental access gateway to the City of Arts & Sciences, more than 1,000 feet long and almost 200 feet wide and made up of a succession of 55 fixed arches and 54 floating arches that are 60 feet tall.
The Hemispheric: This spectacular building represents an enormous human eye -- the eye of wisdom. It has an ovoid roof 328 feet long within a large sphere that houses the projection hall. The inner area includes the Carl Sagan Perimeter.
The Prince Felipe Museum: The building is magnificent in its proportions and organic shapes and is unique in all the world for the geometry of the building, its structure, the materials used and the constant presence of nature within it.
Please note: Use of an audio headset (included) will enhance your tour experience. Visits are external only. Tour does not operate on Sundays.