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