L' Àgora

Valencia (Valencia), Spain

L´Àgora is the newest edition to the City of Arts and Sciences and is used to host sporting events, concerts, performances, exhibitions and meetings.  Also seen in this picture are the tops of the suspension bridge, interactive science museum as well as the opera house.

L'Umbracle

Valencia (Valencia), Spain

L'Umbracle is a landscaped walkway making up part of the City of Arts and Sciences and was designed to display plant species indigenous to the area around Valencia.  It also exhibits an outdoor art gallery of contemporary sculptures by several different artists.  It is 320 meters long and 60 meters wide.

What I love most about this architectural complex is the contrast of the blue sky with the simple clean white lines of the different structures that make up this marvelous area.

City of Arts and Sciences

Valencia (Valencia), Spain

This complex of seven different structures and buildings devoted to the Arts and Sciences was designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela and initiated  in 1996.  Things such as an IMAX theater, planetarium, interactive science museum, landscaped walk with plants indigenous to Valencia, oceanographic aquarium, opera house and performing arts center, concerts and sporting events can all be enjoyed in the City of Arts and Sciences.