Valencia

Spain 2009
IMG_6618-5404 Valencia Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
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IMG_6619 Valencia City of Arts and Sciences (Futuristic Museum Complex) Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts)
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IMG_6623 An entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela
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IMG_6623-5410 Under the curved-roof structure, 230m in length, the building rises 14 stories above ground and includes 3 stories below ground. Its height is 75m.
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IMG_6628 L'Umbracle — a landscaped walk with plant species indigenous to Valencia
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IMG_6636 L'Hemisferic (an Imax Cinema, Planetarium and Laserium), El Museu de les Ciencies Príncipe Felipe (Príncipe Felipe Science Museum) and L'Oceanografic (a marine...
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IMG_6638 Another view of the Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts
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IMG_6640 L'Hemisferic, almost perfect symmetry
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IMG_6644-5422 An interactive museum of science but resembling the skeleton of a whale. It occupies around 40,000 sq. meters on 3 floors.
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IMG_6645 The 40,000 sq. meters building contains four auditoriums
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IMG_6645-5423 The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the old river bed Turia. Turia became a garden in 1980, after the bypass of the river by the great flood...
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IMG_6647-5427 A long walkway next to the reflection pools
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IMG_6648 Príncipe Felipe Science Museum
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IMG_6650 L'Oceanografic, a marine complex
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IMG_6651 An opera house and culture center
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IMG_6652 Interesting baby bird mouths?
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IMG_6653 Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts and L'Hemisferic
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IMG_6663 The total price of the works was estimated to be about 150 million euro.
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IMG_6667 Doesn't it look like it comes out of Star Wars?
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IMG_6667-5433 Reflection...
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