El Miguelete is the bell tower of the cathedral, in the Gothic style, measuring 50.85 m. up to the terrace.

This type of tower passes from the south of France to the Crown of Aragon. The works began in 1381 under the direction of Andreu Juliá, master of the Cathedral of Tortosa. Later, Pere Balaguer would work on the works. The lower body is completely solid, except for the part of the spiral staircase. In the third body of the tower was the house of the person in charge of ringing the bells until the 20th century.

It is so named because its main bell was baptized on the day of San Miguel (September 29) with the name of Micalet (Miguelete). The name of the bell passed to the tower.

It is called like this because the convent and the church of Carmen (Carmelitas Calzados) are located here. When the Museum of Painting was installed, after the confiscation of the 19th century, it was called for a time the Plaza del Museo.

In the garden located to the right of the Carmen church was located the Aguilar palace, in Gothic style, also called from the Barones de Alacuás and which was demolished in 1946. In this garden is the so-called Fuente de los Niños, made by Mariano Benlliure.

In 1916 a roof, in principle provisional, was built over the stalls. This cover made it difficult to see the square.

During the years 2008-2010 its interior front was restored. In 2012, the new stalls were placed in the center of the square and a new roof was placed lower than the one there was, with metal plates that do not reduce its vision so much, making it more diaphanous.

The of the photo you can see the Chapa buildings (1909), made by three different architects, but who maintained the compositional unity of the façade. No. 65 of the Gran Vía Marqués del Túria conserves the original decoration inside.

This square was called, from 1936 to 1939, Plaza de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

The fountain in the middle of the square is a monument to the Marquis of Campo and was made by Mariano Benlliure.

This street is named for the old butcher shops that were on it, although today there are none left.

Formerly, as it appears in a tile plate, it was called the Portal del Coixo (Portal del Cojo). The name was due to the fact that the street led to a gate in the wall whose guardian was lame.

In 1596 it was agreed to install a casilicio with several saints, which was destroyed by lightning in 1709. It was rebuilt and in its place was placed only an image of the Virgin of the Forsaken in 1721, the work of Francisco Vergara el Mayor. In 1677 another casilicio with the image of San Pascual Bailón had already been placed. The flood of 1776 damaged the two casilicios and it was necessary to repair the image of San Pascual Bailón and build another new image of the Virgin of the Helpless.

In the photo appears the sculpture of San Luis Beltrán.

Before placing the two current statues of San Luis Beltrán and Santo Tomás de Villanueva, the bridge had some casalicios with the sculptures of the Moors of Alzira, converted to Christianity and later martyred, San Bernardo (Ahmet); and his sisters Gracia (Zaida) and María (Zoraida). With the War of Independence, and later the Carlist, the statues were destroyed.

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