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The Best Attractions In Province of Valencia

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Valencia or València is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Valencian Community. Of the province's 2,566,474 people , one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. There are 265 municipalities in the province.
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  • 1. Bioparc Valencia Valencia
    Bioparc Valencia is a 10-hectare zoo park in Valencia, Spain. It is owned by the City Council of Valencia and designed and managed by Rainforest . It has a large collection of African fauna.Located in Valencia's Turia riverbed, most of the animals moved to the new Bioparc facilities from the old city's zoo when the park opened in 2008.
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  • 2. City of the Arts and Sciences Valencia
    The City of Arts and Sciences is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain. The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park. Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project began the first stages of construction in July 1996, and was inaugurated April 16, 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric. The last great component of the City of Arts and Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, was inaugurated on October 9, 2005, Valencian Community Day. ...
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  • 4. Oceanografic Valencia Valencia
    L'Oceanogràfic is an oceanarium situated in the east of the city of Valencia, Spain, where different marine habitats are represented. It was designed by the architect Félix Candela and the structural engineers Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro. It is integrated inside the cultural complex known as the Ciutat de les Arts i de les Ciències . It was opened on 14 February 2003.
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  • 6. Valencia Cathedral Valencia
    Valencia , officially València , on the east coast of Spain, is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with around 800,000 inhabitants in the administrative centre. Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 1.5–1.6 million people. Valencia is Spain's third largest metropolitan area, with a population ranging from 1.7 to 2.5 million depending on how the metropolitan area is defined. The Port of Valencia is the 5th busiest container port in Europe and the busiest container port on the Mediterranean Sea. The city is ranked at Gamma+ in the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Valencia is integrated into an industrial area on the Costa del Azahar . Valencia...
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  • 10. Plaza de la Virgen Valencia
    The Modernisme Plaza of the City Hall of Valencia was the transformation of the square of the City Hall of Valencia by Javier Goerlich in 1931 , now in its site is the current Plaza of the City Hall and its fountain. The Dr. Daniel Benito Goerlich , Professor of Art History and Curator of Cultural Heritage of the University of Valencia, assures that the reform of the 1930s belongs to a very specific social context, and was destroyed a few years later in a completely different context, the repressive postwar, towards the disaffected to the political regime of the time. Benito Goerlich, is, curiously, nephew of architect Goerlich Lleó.
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  • 11. Palau Ducal dels Borja Gandia Gandia
    The Palace of the Borgias is an aristocratic palace of Valencian Gothic and Renaissance styles located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is now the headquarters of the Valencian Parliament. The palace was constructed in the 15th century to be the residence of the Borgia family in the capital of the Kingdom of Valencia.
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  • 14. Torres de Serranos Valencia
    The Serrans Gate or Serranos Gate , also known as Serrans Towers or Serranos Towers is one of the twelve gates that formed part of the ancient city wall, the Christian Wall , of the city of Valencia, Spain. It was built in Valencian Gothic style at the end of the 14th century . Its name is probably due to its location in the northeast of the old city centre, making it the entry point for the royal road connecting Valencia with the comarca or district of Els Serrans as well as the entry point for the royal road to Barcelona, or because the majority of settlers near there in the time of James I of Aragon were from the area around Teruel, whose inhabitants were often called serrans by the Valencians. Alternatively, the gate may also have been named after an important family, the Serrans, who ...
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  • 15. Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia Valencia
    The Museu de Belles Arts de València is an art gallery in Valencia, Spain, founded in 1913. It houses some 2,000 works, most dating from the 14th–17th centuries, including a Self portrait of Diego Velázquez, a St. John the Baptist by El Greco, Goya's Playing Children, Gonzalo Pérez's Altarpiece of Sts. Ursula, Martin and Antony and a Madonna with Writing Child and Bishop by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio. It houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi. The museum is in the St. Pius V Palace, built in the 17th–18th centuries. It has also sections dedicated to sculpture, to contemporary art and to archaeological findings.
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