The City of Arts and Sciences ( Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) is a complex architectural, cultural and entertainment in the city of Valencia (Spain). The complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela, was inaugurated on April 16, 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric. The last major component of the City of Arts and Sciences, the Palace of Arts Reina Sofia, was introduced in the society on October 9, 2005, the day of the Comunidad Valenciana, even if their regular programming did not begin until the autumn of 2006 .
The City of Arts and Sciences is located at the end of the old bed of the River Turia, a channel that became garden in the 1980s, following the diversion of the river by the great flood of Valencia in 1957. It is, today, the biggest complaint from the tourist city of Valencia.
