Must-see attractions in L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

  • La Concha beach in the city of San Sebastian

    Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    This aesthetically stunning complex occupies a massive 350,000-sq-metre swath of the old Turia riverbed. It’s occupied by a series of spectacular…

  • Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    This interactive science museum, stretching like a giant whale skeleton within the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, has plenty of touchy-feely things…

  • Outside entrance to Oceanogràfic.

    Oceanogràfic

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    Spain's most famous aquarium is the southernmost building of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias. It's an impressive display, divided into a series of…

  • Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    Brooding over the riverbed like a giant beetle, its shell shimmering with translucent mosaic tiles, this ultramodern arts complex, grafted onto the Ciudad…

  • Street view of Plaza de Toros

    Plaza de Toros

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    This roughly 170-year-old bullring is an iconic site next to Estación del Norte. Similar in style to Rome’s Colosseum, the 10,500-capacity bullring has…

  • Exterior of Mercado Colon (Market Columbus).

    Mercado de Colón

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    This magnificent building, now colonised by cafes and boutique food outlets, was formerly a market, built in 1916 to serve the rising bourgeoisie of the…

  • Museo Fallero

    L'Eixample & Southern Valencia

    At each Fallas festival, just one of the thousands of ninots, the figurines that pose at the base of each falla (huge statues of papier mâché and…