Highlights
Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and occupies a surface area of 350,000 square meters (418,000 square y
The draft project was commissioned in 1990 at a cost of €556,000 and in collaboration with the University of Valencia
It took 20 years to complete the project at a cost of over €1 billion
In 2019 the local government calculated that the complex generates annual income of €113 million, and creates jobs for 3,509 people
The European Investment Bank has provided €100 million to repair damage from the recent floods
