Bed and Breakfast Barcelona & Valencia
Rent a bike to visit a city is always a good idea because it allows you to enjoy it at your own pace and feel like a local. In Valencia there are different options, for example Valenbisi is a bike rental where you don’t have to carry the bike all day, but you can pick it up or leave it at different stops throughout the city. The weekly pass costs €13 and is perfect for tourists, but there are many other options.
It´s one of the twelve gates that formed part of the ancient city wall, the Christian Wall (Muralla cristiana), of the city of Valencia, Spain. It was built in Valencian Gothic style at the end of the 14th century. Today there are only two of those twelve gates: the Torres de Serrano and the Torres de Quart.
The name for it refers to a group of futuristic buildings designed by local architects, namely Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela, it was thought to be a great set of museums.
The City of Arts contains 6 distinct zones or buildings:
1. The first one built, L’Hemisferic, was designed to look like a giant human eye. It offers, among other things, to 3D panoramic cinema in which you can enjoy both documentaries and films.
2. The Principe Felipe Science Museum. It has a program of changing exhibits at various times of the year where you can experiment science by touching yourself.
3. The other part of the complex houses L’Umbracle, which is completely free and is a landscaped walk of plants native to the area and various artistic and thought-provoking sculptures.
4. L’Oceanogràfic, which is a small version of Sea World. In there you can find a dolphin display and the largest glass water tunnel in Europe to walk through, directly underneath the massive fish tank, with sharks swimming a few meters from your face, among other spectacular things.
5. The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is the next part, which is an impressive looking opera house and theater.
6. he last and newest bit is L’Àgora, which is a covered exhibition space and sports sand with the shape of an ellipse. The City of Arts and Sciences is, with its stunning architecture, actually a great sporting venue, and Valencia hosts spectacular sport events every year.
If all this has not caught your attention, the aesthetics of the buildings is unique and an almost mandatory stop if you visit the city.
It is located in the old town; its everlasting and narrow streets are proof of that.
In this peculiar neighborhood you find a great contrast, on the one hand urban art is very present with authentic pieces of art at street level, on the other hand it is the place of the most diverse restaurants and the most famous pubs. In the carmen there is everything: history, culture, gastronomy and party. Are you going to miss it?