Amusement Parks in Valencia

Valencia, Spain is a city that thrives on its ancestry, its eclectic culture and customs and the stupendous architectural marvels dotting the skyline. The city is not short on the fun quotient too, courtesy the amusement parks in Valencia. The various amusement parks in Valencia offer opportunities aplenty for the kids to have a rollicking good time and the exhibits housed within some of them ensure that the curious-natured learn about the facts of life while romping about the place.

About the Amusement Parks in Valencia

The amusement parks in Valencia are fun-filled entertainment and edutainment galores and maximizing on the concept of "edutainment" is the City of the Arts and Sciences, Valencia. Also known as the Ciudad De Las Artes Y De Las Ciencias, this venue for entertainment in Valencia houses a planetarium (L'Hemisferic, Valencia), a well-stocked science museum (the Prinicipe Felipe Science Musuem, Valencia), the largest marine park in Europe (the Oceanografic, Valencia) and a grand opera that is dedicated to promoting the arts of Valencia (the Reina Sofia Arts Palace).

The most spectacular-looking of the amusement parks in Valencia, Spain, most of the structures at the City of the Arts and Sciences have been designed by the legendary Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and are themselves astonishing sights to behold. L'Hemisferic projects stunningly realistic images of the outer space on its giant IMAX theater screen. At the Oceanografic you get to have an up, close and personal encounter with the curious creatures of the marine world. Lots of them too, for the park houses 500-odd species of fishes.

Amongst the various amusement parks in Valencia, Valencia theme parks like Gulliver, Valencia draw in the kids by the hordes. The park consists of a gigantic wooden statue of Gulliver in a reclining position, which actually couches lots of slides, ramps, and stairs. At the Gulliver, the young ones to have a gala time sliding down the jacket of Gulliver or prancing atop his tummy.

Taking on the onus for providing for the fun activities in Valencia, is the Terra Mitica, one of the most well-stocked, in terms of the attractions that is, amongst the amusement parks in Valencia. The amazing attractions here include the Magnus Colossus which is the longest wooden roller coaster in the whole of Europe, the Tizona with its stomach-churning and adrenaline-surging drops, 360-degree loops and swirling turns and the Arietes that are actually Crazy Cars but in the shape of cows, bulls and sheep, all running haywire.