Valencia & the Costa Blanca - Discover Spain: Experience the Best of Spain - page 426

The interactive science museum Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe
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and displays for all ages.
Brooding over the riverbed like a giant beetle, its shell shimmering with translucent mo-
saic tiles, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Offline map Google map has four audit-
oriums. With seating for 4400, it's exceeded in capacity only by the Sydney Opera House.
Take bus 35 from Plaza del Ayuntamiento or bus 95 from Torres de Serranos or Plaza
de América.

NEED TO KNOW
City of Arts & Sciences ( reservations 902 10 00 31 or book online;
www.cac.es ; combined ticket for all 3 attractions adult/child €31.50/24) ; Oceano-
gràfic (adult/child €24/18; 10am-6pm or 8pm) ; Hemisfèric (adult/child
€7.50/5.80) ; Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe (adult/child €7.50/6;
10am-7pm or 9pm) ; Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía ( www.lesarts.com ; Autovía a
El Saler)

MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES
(Calle San Pío V 9; 10am-8pm Tue-Sun) Bright and spacious, the Museo de
Bellas Artes ranks among Spain's best. Highlights include the grandiose Roman
Mosaic of the Nine Muses, a collection of magnificent late medieval altarpieces, and
works by El Greco, Goya, Velázquez, Murillo, Ribalta and artists such as Sorolla
and Pinazo of the Valencian Impressionist school.

Fine Arts Museum

MUSEO FALLERO
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(Plaza Monteolivete 4; adult/child €2/1; 10am-2pm & 4.30-8pm Tue-Sat,
10am-3pm Sun) Each Fallas festival, only one of the thousands of ninots - the near-
life-sized figurines that strut and pose at the base of each falla (huge statues of
papier-mâché and polystyrene) - is saved from the deadly flames by popular vote.
Those reprieved over the years are displayed here.

Fallas Museum