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Valencia's Medieval Grain Store Has No Ticket DeskArchitecture

Valencia's Medieval Grain Store Has No Ticket Desk

A 14th-century wheat warehouse raised on the Muslim citadel, with guild paintings on the walls and free entry every day it opens.

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Valencia's Free Palace Asks for Your ID Before the DateArchitecture

Valencia's Free Palace Asks for Your ID Before the Date

No ticket desk, no chosen hour: you send a request with passport details and the Presidency assigns a morning, if its diary allows.

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A Visigothic Crypt That Shuts for Its Own FilmArchitecture

A Visigothic Crypt That Shuts for Its Own Film

Five screenings a day close the 6th-century vault to walk-in visitors, and the two city sources cannot even agree on whether Monday counts.

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Santos Juanes, Where Half the Ceiling Is a ProjectionArchitecture

Santos Juanes, Where Half the Ceiling Is a Projection

Three hundred and fifty square metres of restored Palomino, and an apse that exists only as videomapping because the paint burned in 1936.

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Valencia's Only Modernista Monument With No TicketArchitecture

Valencia's Only Modernista Monument With No Ticket

A working railway station with a 45-metre canopy, ceramics by La Ceramo and the word Norte drawn a different way on every surface.

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El Cabanyal, Where the Listed Heritage Is the Street PlanArchitecture

El Cabanyal, Where the Listed Heritage Is the Street Plan

Spain's culture ministry stopped a 48-metre road through El Cabanyal by ruling it despoliation, because what the listing protects is the grid itself.

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Is the City of Arts and Sciences Combined Ticket Worth It?Architecture

Is the City of Arts and Sciences Combined Ticket Worth It?

Adding the science museum to an Oceanogràfic ticket costs €2.35. Adding the IMAX dome as well brings the total to €8.20 above the aquarium on its own.

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La Lonja Silk Exchange, Hours, Tickets and the TowerArchitecture

La Lonja Silk Exchange, Hours, Tickets and the Tower

Two euros to walk into a World Heritage site, and nothing at all on Sundays. The catch is that Sunday closes at 2pm and the tower is not part of the visit.

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Climbing the Miguelete, 207 Steps and a Separate TicketArchitecture

Climbing the Miguelete, 207 Steps and a Separate Ticket

The only view in Valencia that takes in both surviving gates of the medieval wall in one turn of the head, for a euro if you live here and three if you do not.

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Serranos or Quart, Which Valencia Tower to ClimbArchitecture

Serranos or Quart, Which Valencia Tower to Climb

Both cost €2 and both are free on Sundays. Only one of them shuts when it rains, and it is not the one most itineraries send you to first.

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