It’s time to start dreaming of your next family trip. Here’s some destination inspiration for you. Take a visual journey through Valencia, Spain, with us.
Within the city is the City of Arts and Sciences, a cultural and architectural complex featuring a planetarium, laserium, IMAX Cinema, interactive science museum, landscaped walk of indigenous plants, open-air oceanographic park, opera house and more. © Andrei Stancu | Dreamstime.com
One of the best examples of Valencian Art Nouveau, Mercado Central is a public market that has been a hub for vendors since the early 20th century. Within, expect a wide variety of foods, restaurants, souvenir shops and more. The market sits across from Church of Santos Juanes and Llotja de la Seda. © Aliaksandr Mazurkevich | Dreamstime.com
L’Oceanogràfic is a world-famous oceanarium featuring different marine habitats, found within the City of Arts and Sciences. The largest complex of its type in Europe, this massive oceanarium is home to creatures like sand tiger sharks, beluga whales and more than 80 different species of plants. © Nataliia Dubchak | Dreamstime.com
Don’t forget to visit one (or several) cafés while in this Spanish city. Some standouts include MiKENGO, Café Malbec and Trencat Dolc I Salat. © Elovkoff | Dreamstime.com
Within the City of Arts and Sciences is Museu de les Ciènces Principe Felipe, an interactive science museum resembling the skeleton of a whale. This museum boasts a floor dedicated to exhibitions by researchers Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Severo Ochoa y Jean Dausset, while the third floor is known as the Chromosome Forest, showing the sequencing of human DNA. Other exhibits include Zero Gravity and Space Academy. © Ed Francissen | Dreamstime.com
L’Hemisfèric, also in the City of Arts and Sciences, resembles a giant eye and is also known as the “eye of knowledge.” Underground spaces are illuminated with translucent glass panels, while the “iris” of the eye holds the planetarium and Ominax theater. © Ahkenahmed | Dreamstime.com
Held each year to commemorate Saint Joseph, the Fallas festival is celebrated March 15–19 and sees attendees wear casal faller dresses of regional and historical costumes from different eras of the city’s history. This festival also sees ninots, massive puppets or dolls of anything and everything. © Roberto Nencini | Dreamstime.com
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