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I have captured for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos this snapshot of the sunset with a spectacular candlelight over Valencia, in the City of Arts and Sciences.
We are located at the end of the old channel of the Turia River (Jardín del Turia), which became a garden in the 1980s, after the river was diverted by the great flood of Valencia in 1957.
The City of Arts and Sciences is an architectural, cultural and entertainment complex in the city of Valencia, which was designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, together with the engineers responsible for the structural design of the roofs of L’Oceanogràfic, Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro.
It was inaugurated on June 9, 1998 with the opening of El Hemisférico. The last major component of the City is the Agora, located between the Assut de l’Or bridge and the Oceanogràfic.
The candilazo is a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is of soft tones between red and orange.
