The "City of the Sciences" was the name that the autonomous government gave to the initiative, and plans included a 370m high communications tower, which would have been the third highest one in the world at that time; a planetarium; and the museum of science.
A cidade das ciencias, que era o nome que o Consell daba á iniciativa, constaba dunha torre de comunicacións de 370 metros de altura -a terceira máis alta do mundo naqueles momentos-, un planetario e o museo de carácter científico.