Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura

Vast and vastly impressive building Myself and a friend visited on a weekday in August after visiting Jardin Botanico Atlantico across the road. Free entry. Fantastic architecture and on a huge scale. Tourist information centre, cafe-restaurant with indoor/outdoor seating, garden areas. Toilets, vending machines (cash only). Pre-booked trips up clock tower (€2.50pp).

Very impressive architecture, building is huge, and to say it was originally built as an orphanage beggars belief. It's a must visit if you are in the area and it's that large that it doesn't appear to get busy.

Very nice building, largest in Spain. In the past was a monastery and a place for orphans

We just walked around the building, but we didn't go inside. However, the building is worth a visit, if only for its architecture and gardens. As an added bonus, the Gijon Botanical Garden is right next door.

Lots of it... but not much going on! (July) Some Franciost flavour to the architecture and symbolism - many elements look like a hybrid of a concentration camp, an austere monastery, and an oversized oxbridge college. Hopefully the local council or owner will figure out a great use for it...

Enormous building, quite interesting to imagine the past time during the Franco regime

Spectacular building and we could watch a great performance inside.

Amazing venue for an event. We saw The Offspring play here during a Rock Festival and it was absolutely amazing all the singers from the US couldn't believe the luck they had in playing at such an incredible place! Gorgeous