[Times Online, 28 October 2005] Valencia now has the largest performing arts centre in Spain, reports Neil Fisher

The new opera house in Valencia has some fantastical beasts for company. The coastal city’s science museum, all shiny white teeth and sharp, bony lines, lunges out of the River Turia. The flawless curves of the city’s new IMAX enclose a glistening hemisphere whose perfect reflection in the water creates a giant alien eyeball.