Cine Rialto, Art Deco theatre in Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Valencia, Spain

Cine Rialto is an Art Deco theatre on Plaza del Ayuntamiento in Valencia featuring a striking tower and vertical facade with large glass openings across six floors and basement. The building contains a main theatre, film projection room, performance space, and music hall below ground level.

The Rialto was built between 1935 and 1939 for the Serrano Llàcer family, with a project by architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati and interiors by Francisco Ferrer. In 1985 the Generalitat Valenciana acquired the building for the Filmoteca and Teatres de la Generalitat; the late-1980s rehabilitation was directed by the Grau siblings, Cristina and Camilo.

The building takes its name from the Rialto theatre, the former cinema that occupies it. Since the late 1980s it has housed the Institut Valencià de Cinematografia, and the Generalitat Valenciana bought the building in 1985 for the Filmoteca and Teatres de la Generalitat. The basement music hall and the small theatre stage share the programme with film screenings.

The theatre is located at Plaza del Ayuntamiento 17 in the city center and easy to reach. Visitors should plan time to explore the different levels, as various spaces are distributed throughout the building.

The main entrance on Plaza del Ayuntamiento is a six-metre-wide portico leading to a vestibule with two staircases. The plan fits the halls into an irregular plot so that they open toward the vertex in a heart-shaped figure, with leftover space used for access and vertical circulation.