Spain : Valencia, the wind at the stern

Valencia, the wind at the stern

Š HervÊ HUGHES / hemis.fr

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Named Mediterranean Capital thanks to the legendary America's Cup, Valence captures all eyes. The crowd of visitors expected will discover a livable city were history rubs elbows with modernity.

From High Baroque of the Lonja Palace, we pass on to the resolutely futurist lines of the Reina Sofia Art Palace, gigantic ceramic whale imagined by the wonderful Santiago Calavatra. Don’t forget the Mercado Central, the largest covered market in Europe ; unless you prefer sipping an horchata on the Plaza de la Virgen while contemplating the Seu, a cathedral combining Roman, Baroque and Gothic architecture. Return to the audacious City of Arts and Sciences which shelters the Hemisferic, geode dedicated to film, the giant vault of the Umbraculo over a tropical garden. Beyond the Prince Filipe Museum of Science with its contrete vertebrae that cuts through the azur sky we find the Oceanografic, the largest aquarium of Europe. Further along, the renovated harbour already in the dynamic rythme of the elegant sailboats of the America’s cup.

HEMIS_173829 : Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Hemisferic and Palau de las Artes Reina Sofia

HEMIS_173817 Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Hemisferic

HEMIS_173827 Spain, Valencia, harbor and site of the America's cup

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Spain, Valencia, Palau de las Artes Reina Sofia, opera by the architect Santagio Calatrava

Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the Architect Santiago Calatrava, Principe Felipe Sciences Museum

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Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Umbracle

Spain, Valencia, Palau de las Artes Reina Sofia, opera by the Architect Santagio Calatrava

HEMIS_173824 Spain, Valencia, Cathedral and orange tree of the plaza de la Reina

HEMIS_173821 Spain, Valencia, Torre Serranos

HEMIS_173816 : Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Principe Felipe Sciences museum

HEMIS_173820 Spain, Valencia, Estacion del Norte, railway station

HEMIS_173839 Spain, Valencia, palace of the Marquis de Dos Aguas, museum of ceramics

HEMIS_173825 Spain, Valencia, terrace of the plaza de la Virgen

HEMIS_173832 Spain, Valencia, palace of the Marquis de Dos Aguas, museum of ceramics, baroque sculpture

HEMIS_173847 Spain, Valencia, building of the bank of Valencia

HEMIS_173804 Spain, Valencia, window of a shop on the calle Colon

HEMIS_173803 Spain, Valencia, fountain of the plaza de la Virgen

HEMIS_173840 Spain, Valencia, bar of the Contempory culture center

HEMIS_173838 : Spain, Valencia, Estacion del Norte, railway Station

HEMIS_173806 Spain, Valencia, la calle Xativa

HEMIS_173807 Spain, Valencia, palm-tree in front of the post office tower

HEMIS_173808 Spain, Valencia, terrace of the plaza del Ayuntamiento

HEMIS_173826 Spain, Valencia, the beach, Las Arenas, luxury hotel built for the America'cup

HEMIS_173852 Spain, Valencia, harbor

HEMIS_173850 Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Principe Felipe Sciences museum

HEMIS_173835 Spain, Valencia, Palau de la Musica by the architect Jose Maria Garcia de Paredes

HEMIS_173834 Spain, Valencia, equestrian statue of la Puerta del Mar

HEMIS_173849 : Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Principe Felipe Sciences museum

HEMIS_173836 Spain, Valencia, gargoyle of Puente Gargolas

HEMIS_173841 Spain, Valencia, La Lonja in Gothic style, listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO, floor in trompe l'Ĺ“il

HEMIS_173844 Spain, Valencia, La Lonja in Gothic style, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO

HEMIS_173842 Spain, Valencia, La Lonja in Gothic style, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO

HEMIS_173859 Spain, Valencia, Mercado Central, covered market

HEMIS_173843 Spain, Valencia, Mercado Central, covered market

HEMIS_173858 Spain, Valencia, Mercado Central, covered market, butcher shop

HEMIS_173855 Spain, Valencia, plaza de la Reina

HEMIS_173823 : Spain, Valencia, baroque altarpiece of the cathedral

HEMIS_173856 Spain, Valencia, domes in glazed titles of the cathedral

HEMIS_173848 Spain, Valencia, facade of a building of the plaza del Ayuntamiento

HEMIS_173831 Spain, Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences by the architect Santiago Calatrava, Oceanografic, aquarium