Valencia Museums & Art Galleries

12th August 

Today I have managed to visit three museums, one of which I never came across while doing my travel research.

On my way to the fine Arts museum I came across a plaza next to a basilica. It had a large pool and upon further inspection I realised that the pool has a glass bottom, below which are ancient ruins.

Adjacent to the pool on the opposite side is a museum called L'Almonia. Entry to this museum allows one to actually walk on glass pavings allowing to see building remains back to 138 bce, the foundation of the Roman Republic period city. Entry to €2 is one of the cheapest I have come across .

The Basilica wanted to extend their building in 1985 but they soon discovered Roman ruins and this totally changed the building plans.

The l'Almonia Museum.

This museum covers the first 1000 to 1200 years of the settlement at Valencia, a location that predates both London & Paris as it was founded by Republican Rome in approximately 135 bce.

The Valencia Fine Artds Museum 

Like most museums in Spain that I have had the ability to visit over the past 10 days (about 2 to 3 day - you do the maths), I have been faced with the multitude of religious works pouring down from the walls, pushing concepts that I can neither accept nor relate to. So I have no intentions of sharing those works. Instead I want to show some of the powerful paintings from this museum that cover amongst other topic, the Spanish Civil War, in the mid late 30s.

One more point. for the first time I have not edited the images I have taken. I apologise but I am running out of time to keep up to date with editing the number of shots I am taking. Please bare with me and enjoy. 

The Natural History Museum 

I keep going to these and in general get disappointed. However at this museum there were numerous references to Western Australia, so it was not too bad.

13th August

This morning I walked the 3 2/2 kilometres to the museum complex. The architecture and sculpture is well worth just getting here.

Learned an important lesson. Having arrived I went on line to book a ticket just for the Science museum and ever site said sold out for today. I took a chance and queued, only 3 minutes, and I just bought a ticket - no problem. So today's lesson is, as always, never believe 99% of what you read on the web. 😱🤗🤓