VALENCIA SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

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Description: L'Umbracle (Promenade and Car Park) is Santiago Calatrava's latest contribution to the unique and comprehensive complex of the City of Arts and Sciences. The City of Arts and Sciences, developed by Santiago Calatrava, is a large-scale urban recreation center for culture and science which also incorporates L'Oceanogràfic, an underwater city designed by the late Felix Candela. Set in the old dried-up river bed of the Turia, midway between the old city of Valencia and the coastal district of Nazaret, the City of Arts and Sciences covers an area of 350,000 square meters. Following a disastrous flood in 1957, the river was diverted along a canal to the south of the city, and the dried-out riverbed planted as a 7 kilometer long promenade through the center of the city. The promenade is crossed by two streamlined new bridges designed by Santiago Calatrava. Designed almost entirely by Valencia born Santiago Calatrava