Sunday 26 April 2009

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias


THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2009

The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias is an amazing futuristic design incorporating various buildings to house the Palau de les Artes, Hemisferic with an IMAX Cinema, Museo de las Ciencias and Oceanografic. It is quite expensive at 63 euros for the two of us. The Science Museum was not that impressive, but the Oceanografic was. 


We had lunch in the Submarino restaurant, which has an aquarium going around the whole of the restaurant. There are several massive aquariums with different habitats from tropical to polar zones. The highlights for me were seeing the sea dragons, sea horses, walruses and the Mola Mola (sunfish). We have seen sunfish when we’re sailing, in the Med and UK, but usually only see their top fin, so it was interesting to see what the whole fish looks like!

As it had taken about 1.5 hours to get to the Centre by bus, we got a taxi back which took 10 minutes and only cost 10 euros.



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