Hemisfèric
Eye-shaped IMAX cinema and planetarium with an aluminum shutter that opens over a reflecting pool.
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This guide to the Hemisfèric in Valencia begins with the flood of October 14th, 1957, when the Turia river rose without warning and drowned the old city, leaving Valencia to decide what to do with a river it no longer trusted. It follows the decade spent rerouting the Turia out of town, and the empty riverbed that sat abandoned until architect Santiago Calatrava was asked, in 1991, to fill it with something extraordinary. The building in front of you, his first finished structure here, opened in 1998. Try standing at one of the stone pillars out front while a companion stands at the opposite one, and speak normally.
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