City of science

On the website of Senatibikes, you can find the best tours to see the nicest places of Valencia. This is the ´city of science tour´. You´re going through the river and past many sights seeings. It´s the best way to discover the city!

The Torres de Serranos bridge is the beginning of the tour. It is the oldest of the remaining bridges across the River Turia.

The Trinity bridge is the oldest of the gothic bridges. Built on a base of ten pointed arches, it had to be rebuilt after the floods.

The bridge of El Real. The old bridge became more and more dilapidated and it could no longer be used after the floods, it was rebuilt in 1967.

The bridge of exhibition. It is commonly known as "La Peineta". It has become a symbol of the modern nature of the city.

The flowers bridge, it is 153 meters long and 24 meters wide. It´s decorated with 27. 000 beautiful flowers of all colors, which vary troughout the seasons.

Bridge of the sea. It became a pedestrian bridge in 1933. It is a beautiful old bridge to admire surrounded by palm trees!

Aragón bridge. The bridge was designed in the Rationalist style and has six 25m arches. It is 167m long and 30m wide, it is the longest bridge in Valencia.

The Palau de la Música is an avant-garde building in terms of a Valencian architect. This building is built in the riverbend, so you will see it if you´re doing bike through the river. It has become one of the most important venues in Europe.

Towards the park's eastern end is the Gulliver Park, a children's adventure playground featuring a huge fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver tied to the ground with ropes. The model is constructed in such a way that the ropes are climbable.

Also towards the eastern end of the river course is the Valencian Music Palace. Marking the park's eastern extreme is Valencia's new City of Arts and Sciences.

Two Metrovalencia stations lie beneath the riverbed, with entrances on either bank: Túria and Alameda.