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Architecture
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ArchitectureValencia'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.
ArchitectureValencia'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.
ArchitectureA 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.
ArchitectureSantos 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.
ArchitectureValencia'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.
ArchitectureEl 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.
ArchitectureIs 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.
ArchitectureLa 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.
ArchitectureClimbing 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.
ArchitectureSerranos 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.