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Top 10 sights in Valencia

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   City of Arts and Sciences

   A complex of five buildings by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, built between 1998 and 2005 in the drained bed of the diverted river. It is white concrete, broken tile and water throughout, cost several times its budget, and has become the image of the city.

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   Valencia Cathedral

   A cathedral begun in 1262 on the site of the main mosque, mixing Valencian Gothic with a baroque front. A chapel off the transept holds an agate cup that the Vatican accepts as the vessel of the Last Supper — the strongest of the Holy Grail claims.

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   L'Oceanogràfic

   The largest aquarium in Europe, opened in 2003 as part of the arts and sciences complex, holding forty-five thousand animals across nine buildings representing the world's marine habitats. Its Arctic and Antarctic tanks are the ones that justify it.

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   Museu de Belles Arts de València

   After the Prado, the strongest collection of Spanish old masters in the country — two thousand works with a fifteenth-century Valencian gold-ground core, Velázquez's self-portrait, El Greco's John the Baptist and Goya's portrait of Joaquina Candado.

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   Torres dels Serrans

   A ceremonial city gate of 1392, the grandest surviving in Spain, through which Valencian troops and ambassadors entered. The Fallas festival begins from its terrace each March, and the deafening daytime firework display is set off in front of it.

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   Plaza de Toros de Valencia

   A neoclassical bullring of 1859 modelled on the Roman arenas, seating about ten and a half thousand, in brick with three tiers of arcades. Its season peaks during Fallas in March, and there is a bullfighting museum attached.

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   Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe

   Calatrava's science museum of 2000, a two-hundred-metre hall of white ribs that reads as the skeleton of some enormous animal. Inside it is hands-on and aimed squarely at children, with a Foucault pendulum through the full height.

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   Mercat Central

   A market of 1928 in Valencian art nouveau — iron, coloured tile and stained glass over eight thousand square metres, with a weathervane parrot on the dome. It is one of the largest fresh food markets in Europe and it is still where the city shops.

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   Torres de Quart

   One of two surviving gates of the medieval wall, built between 1441 and 1493 on a Roman model. Its stonework is pocked with cannon and musket scars from the French bombardment of 1808, which nobody has ever filled in.

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    Valencian Museum of Ethnology

    The provincial ethnology museum, which collects the material culture of the Valencian countryside and the city — the huerta, the fishing, the fiestas — and consistently asks what a tradition is and who decides. It shares a building with the prehistory museum.

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   Turia Garden

   Eight and a half kilometres of park laid out in the bed of the Turia, which was diverted around the city after the flood of 1957 drowned parts of it. The plan of the day was a motorway; the city fought for a garden and won, and it is now the best thing in Valencia.

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   Palau del Marqués de Dos Aigües

   A rococo noble palace in the middle of Valencia. It belonged to the marquesses of Dos Aguas and is now owned by the Spanish state; its alabaster doorway is the most photographed detail in the city.

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   Church of San Nicolás

   A Gothic parish church whose entire vault and walls were frescoed in the 1690s and then blackened by centuries of candle smoke. A restoration finished in 2016 brought the whole cycle back, and Valencia has been calling it the Sistine Chapel of the city ever since.

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   El Micalet

   The cathedral bell tower, built between 1381 and 1429, octagonal and fifty metres high with two hundred and seven steps up it. Its bell has rung the hours over Valencia for six centuries and the terrace is the standard view of the tiled domes.

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   L'Umbracle

   A hundred-metre arched walk in the arts and sciences complex, planted with the cistus, mastic and rosemary of the Valencian coast, with contemporary sculpture set between them. It is the one part of the complex that provides shade.

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   Plaça de la Reina (València)

   The square between the cathedral and the church of Santa Catalina, from which the belfry and the octagonal tower are both seen. It was pedestrianised and replanted in 2022 after decades as a traffic circle, which the city considers a considerable improvement.

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   National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts González Martí

   A Spanish national museum in the palace of the Marquess of Dos Aguas. It centres on Valencian ceramics along with porcelain, textiles, traditional dress and furniture, and opened on 7 February 1947 with the gift of Manuel González Martí.

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   Palace of the Borgias

   A palace in Valencia mixing Gothic and Renaissance work, now the seat of the Valencian parliament. The Borja family built it in the fifteenth century as their residence in the capital of the kingdom of Valencia.

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   Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana

   A fifteenth-century Valencian Gothic palace with Renaissance additions, and the seat of the regional government. Its painted ceilings and the hall in which the medieval Valencian parliament met can be seen by prior booking.

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    Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken

    The basilica of the Virgin of the Forsaken, patron of Valencia, built in 1667 beside the cathedral. During Fallas the whole square is turned into a mantle of flowers built up around a wooden figure of her, and the crowds bringing the flowers file past for two days.

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