In Spain’s Valencia is a City of Arts and Sciences dedicated to displaying the best of our creations to anyone who steps in. Interlocking concrete joints forming literal skeletal frameworks, sleek domes of metal and landscaped water features serve as a medley of elements imagining a scene from the future. Yet there is only one point in the entire city where you’ll be able to take in all these segments together as a whole.

That would be the l’Umbracle. This garden of Mediterranean and tropical vegetation is held suspended beneath floating arcs over 17,500sqm. Along the clean paved walkways, you will be led down an aisle of biodiversity and contemporary art accentuating the theme of modernity echoed throughout the city. Cooled by the swaying fronds and the shade of the plants, this is the perfect spot for where to head to next and explore within the City of Science.