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ArtThe IVAM Keeps a Medieval City Wall in Its Basement
Is the IVAM worth it if modern art is not your thing? A 14th-century city wall found while digging the foundations has its own entrance in the basement, and upstairs hang 14,000 works, including the largest Julio González collection anywhere. Tickets cost 5 or 6 euros, Sunday is free, and Monday is the closing day.
ArtThe Valencia Church Where a Painting Descends on Fridays
Is the Patriarca worth a visit? Go on a Friday: after the 10:00 Mass a Ribalta canvas of 1606 lowers on pulleys to reveal a hidden German crucifix, and the museum keeps a Thomas More manuscript. Visits run in sessions of about 55 minutes, Sundays closed, with tickets from 4 to 12 euros depending on whether you take a guide.
ArtThe Contemporary Art Museum Built Over a Roman Circus
Is the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre worth it? Kiefer and Lichtenstein fill seventeen rooms of the Palacio de Valeriola, above the Roman circus that surfaced when the floor came up. Entry is 12 euros, Wednesday afternoons are free and the 10:30 guided visit costs €15. The €32 pass only pays if you add San Nicolás and Santos Juanes.
ArtSan Nicolás Valencia, and When the Combined Ticket Wins
Is San Nicolás worth 16 euros? Booked online, it buys more than 1,900 square metres of Baroque vault designed by Antonio Palomino, with an audioguide in 5 languages; at the door it is €18 and under-12s go free. The €32 three-venue pass only pays if you also see the Hortensia Herrero and Santos Juanes. Closed on Mondays.
ArtThe Alabaster Doorway Everyone Photographs and Few Enter
Is it worth going through the alabaster doorway of the Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas? Below the Júcar and Turia carved over the door sits ceramics from the 8th century to Picasso, for €3. Entry is free from 16:00 on Saturdays and all day Sunday, but the museum shuts from 14:00 to 16:00 Tuesday to Saturday and all day on Mondays.
ArtThe Free Museum in a Former Military Hospital
Is the Museu de Belles Arts de València worth a visit? It charges nothing, opens ten hours a day from 10:00 to 20:00 and shuts on Mondays. Inside a 1683 seminary that was also an army store, one hour covers the Sorolla room and its forty-six paintings, and two hours adds the Gothic panels, with Goya, Velázquez and El Greco further on.
ArtFree Museums in Valencia, Sorted by Day and Hour
Which Valencia museum is free today? The Museo de Bellas Artes never charges, Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 8pm. Municipal museums open free on Sundays, usually until 2pm, the IVAM all day Sunday and the ceramics museum on Saturday afternoons, so a Sunday takes in four for a €1.50 transport ticket. On Mondays all four close.
ArtValencia's Holy Chalice, the Object Behind the Word
What is the Holy Chalice in Valencia Cathedral? An agate cup dated in 1960 to probably the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, on a medieval gold foot with twenty-eight pearls that hides a second Islamic vessel; only the cup is the relic. The ticket is €12.00, but the church opens freely from 7:30 to 10:00 and from 18:30 to 20:30.