Santiago Calatrava has become the best Spanish contemporary architect and one of the most appreciated in the World. Born at Valencia, in July 1951, he designed in 1991 the City of Arts and Sciences, a great complex emplaced in the Southern corner of the city.
The Calatrava's style mix the most advanced architectural design and use of building technology with the ancient European artistic traditions. As happened with the modernist Antonio Gaudí at the end of the XIX century, the shape of Gothic style is easily identified in
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Oceanographic 2
The museum shows fauna from all the oceans, but makes particular...
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Oceanographic 3
Installations include huge acuariums that are watched from several halls, as...
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Oceanographic 4
Dark glass panels of the buildings are mirrors were the city draws strange...
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Oceanographic 5
Some acuariums are opened at the top, and artificial lakes give support to...
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Oceanographic 6
Pink flamingos enjoy the environmment created by that lakes.
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Aquariums 1
The main attraction are the aquariums, which tematics cover from the tropical...
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Aquariums 2
Living beings shown include from the colorful tropical fishes of the reefs to...
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Aquariums 3
The fauna of the Mediterranean takes, of course, a principal place, and this...
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Wetlands 1
This great sphere harbours an installation dedicated to the avian...
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Wetlands 2
Among the European ones, the white egrett, decorated in this case with the...
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Wetlands 3
And among the American ones, the rose spoonbill, a spectacular heron from the...
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Wetlands 4
Birds live in the installation in conditions favourable for mating and...
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Wetlands 5
However, the best and rariest species in the exhibition is the...
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Dolphin's pool 1
The dolphin's pool offers two times per day a nice spectacle to visitors.
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Pelikan's colony 1
A colony of white African pelikans lives on a rocky structure, and the...
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The Hemisfèric
The building called Hemisfèric holds a nice planetarium, placed...
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Hemisfèric 2
The building is made of glass panels which orientation is regulated by...
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Hemisfèric 3
These original doors give the building a strong personality, one would...
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Hemisfèric 4
The water that surrounds the Hemisfèric displays an elegant blue colour...
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Western Europe
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