Sunday, November 23, 2025

12 November 2025 Cullera: Inside We Go

 


We popped into two different buildings, the Science center and the LaAgora.  So much to see and do.  We did the go to the top of the building and work your way down trick.  There were lots of themes, Space, DaVinci, Electricity and much more.  After the Science center we headed to the CaxiaForum.  This place was other worldly and I felt like we were in the belly of a giant whale.  Not just any but a giant skeleton whale.  We popped around  here for a while and then went over to El Cortes for a picnic lunch.


A head from this angle


A bird from the next angle


Are you ready to blast off


These Russian rockets were new to me


Space stuff everywhere


This was a sand box with a topo map projected on it.  


Felix the Cat is getting worked up


Wowzers


The Mars rover


A series of cameras


Space and Time


Vertigo inducing interiors


Mind bending optical illusions


The displays are so large that I give you a series of old time cycles


Unicycles!


There is also an elevator 


What is this?


Jets


Different enclosures contain various displays 


A display with freshly hatched chicks


He has a bit of shell stuck to his head


A huge DaVinci mural and display


A good map makes for a good visit


A most unique coffee shop in the bones of the Caxia


A space ship next tot eh skeleton of a brontosaurus on the other side


Fritz to mothership, over


It is very big whatever it is


The vibe is half Gaudi cathedral and half is boneyard


Great living wall


Brontosaurus!


Seating area


A fun mobile


Back outside as we need to meet our ride back to Cullera


But first some we buy some snacks at El Corte Ingles


We are in the taxi


More buildings passing by


Off we go


Great statue


Dapper Don


Zoom zoom!


The smoke is thick!






It has been 3 years and 160 days since we began our Migration

12 November 2025 Cullera: City of the Arts and Sciences

 


In Valencia the river used to run right through the center of the city.  A devastating flood killed many folks and the river was diverted south of the city.  What to do with the old river bed?  Make a large urban park, that is what.  Along this old riverbed are the futuristic buildings of the City of Arts and Sciences.  This complex is comprised of seven or eight massive futuristic buildings.  Starting with the Queen Sophia Palace of Arts whish contains the opera house and four concert halls.  It is a huge building and although it is usually compared to a Star War's Storm Trooper helmet, I think it looks more like a weevil with a long probiscis.  Other buildings include the Hemispheric, L'Umberacle the sculpture garden, an aquarium and so much more.  A full day could be spent here going from site to site.  We wandered, visited only the insides of a couple buildings and then wandered some more.  Fantastico!



There were many well thought out pieces


Flowers to smell


Roses


The probiscis of the weevil extends down and to the right


All the good designs are from nature


More off in the distance to hike to


The scale is massive, at 75 meters this is a 17 story tall building


Nice pools of water


Cleaning the brilliant blue water is a worker to the left


An army of maintenance folks were working everywhere


Give me more mosaic


A confusion of modernism


A dizzying array of structural bits


My neck was starting to protest


The hemisphere on the right


An IMAX theater inside


A tourist mecca


Bent metal


Huge slabs of concrete seem to float in mid-air


Getting chameleon vibes from this angle 


More workers


Way up there!


Workers paradise


Having a blast


Everything is gleaming and bright so we are in shadow in comaprison


A Disney movie, set in the future, was filmed here


Now I see a badger shape


Cantilevered 


The blue of the lake was brilliant


A huge playground for concrete


Lets not forget the steel


Another worker in waders


A giant could play these stings like a harp


At times we felt like we were inside the bones of a huge dinosaur 


The seagulls like it too


It could be a sundial


The CaxaForum, another multi purpose building


Oh my, look how far off it stretches


On and on


A garden of plants and sculptures inside this structure


The lone cone


What a delight


It has been 3 years and 160 days since we began our Migration