The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias is an open public leisure complex based on the idea of cultural and intelligent leisure, thus providing the Valencia region with the largest centre of these characteristics in Europe .
L'Hemisfèric, within the same complex, allows you to enjoy three large audiovisual shows: Planetarium, Imax Dome format cinema and the latest Omn isc an laser shows.
The Museo de las Ciencias "Príncipe Felipe" was inaugurated on November 13 th 2000 and is designed as a spectacular area of more than 40.000 m2 dedicated to teaching citizens about science and technology.
L'Oceanogràfic is an authentic underwater city, with 42 million litres of water. Designed as a natural park, a scientific, educational and leisure centre.
El Palau de les Arts will be the last element to join the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias .

The quality of Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias as a framework and innovating model of social, cultural and technological learning in a public environment which looks to the future, and the need to efficiently manage the visits to this fine and completely reliable complex, which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These beneficial characteristics have come together through the Sun Microsystems platform, which also guarantees a return on the investment calculated more in technological than economic terms, i.e. in the long-term durability of the systems.
Sun provides a very stable and tested environment for corporate managements based on SAP R/3 and Meta4 applications, which provide added security to the operation of the entire Information System, as well as coordinating a complete solution for the operation of the entity on the Internet.

2003 was declared the International Year of Fresh Water by United Nations. Thus, and with La Ciutat registered as an especially sensitive entity concerning environmental issues, it offers a cycle of activities whose aim is to make the general public aware of the importance of water given it is a limited resource for which we are all responsible.
Said activity has a thematic exhibition located in the area of Warm and Tropical Seas of L'Oceanográfic offering a full programme of conferences, scientific video shows and excursions.
Based on these, subjects such as the future of water, water and sustainable development, the importance of water in the past, water and land are dealt with in an easy to understand way .