The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is 75 meters tall.
Designed by Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava, the opera house forms part of Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences, a large cultural complex beside the former Turia riverbed. Its sweeping steel-and-glass exterior was intended to suggest movement and a monumental sculptural form.
The building opened in 2005 and contains four performance spaces for opera, concerts, ballet, theatre, and conferences. Its scale is easy to underestimate: the structure is more than 230 meters long and covers over 40,000 square meters.
A common mix-up is confusing the building’s height with the dimensions of its curved outer shell or with the height of other Calatrava landmarks. The 75-meter figure refers to the Palau de les Arts building itself, not the entire City of Arts and Sciences complex.