Sections X and XI of the Jardín del Turia go from the Puente de las Flores to the Puente del Ángel Custodio. These sections have an area of 135,275 m2.
These sections will be definitively designed by the workshop of the architect Ricardo Bofill. In them the vegetation of stone pines, palm trees and cypresses abounds.
This is an area of clearly childish character. In addition to the Gulliver slides, it has miniature golf and skateboard tracks; also two giant chess. All surrounded by grass and vegetation.
From this section is the City of Arts and Sciences, in sections from XIII to XVI. To complete the garden, still missing sections XVII and XVIII.
This curious building owes its name to the Star of David, which can be seen on the pediment of the entrance door. It was built by architect of Sueca Juan Guardiola Martínez, in the neo-Egyptian style. Guardiola was a student of Gaudí in Barcelona.
In this street was the "Casa de las Rocas" (15th century), where in the past those floats (Rocas) from the 16th century were kept. The "Rocas" are taken out in the Corpus Christi procession.
The building on the right is the palace of the Marquis de Mercader, from the late 14th century. The current appearance of the facade is a consequence of the reform of the 18th century. In the 20th century, it was for a time an educational center and currently houses the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Valencia.
The photo shows us the place in the Market Square where Palafox Street begins.
In 1840 the convents of Las Magdalenas and La Merced were demolished. On the site of the Magdalenas Convent, the New Market was built, an open building made of wood and iron. The Central Market would later be built on this same site.
The square has been called Lope de Vega since 1917. Before it was called Plaza de las Hierbas, because of the vegetables that were sold here.
Dr. Collado square is dedicated to Luis Collado (1520-1589), who was a professor of anatomy at the University of Valencia and scholar of the ossicles of the ear.
Here was the old Lonja de los Mercaderes, from the fourteenth century, called Lonja del Aceite because this product was the one with the largest trade. It was demolished in 1877. Merchants who had tried to deceive were brought to this market by the mustasaf or almotacen, to expose them to popular derision.
This marina was built in 2007 for the 32nd America's Cup, turning the inner dock of the port of Valencia into a marina. It is located between the commercial port and the Arenas beach. Today it is a leisure area with restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
Doctor Juan José Dómine Street runs in front of the port of Valencia.
The old core of the district of Campanar, once the orchard that surrounded it disappeared, retains the appearance of a town embedded within the city.
The gardens have a labyrinth made up of clipped hedges with statues. In total, these gardens have more than 30 marble statues and several ponds and fountains.
The complex was built on the initiative of the Marquis of San Juan (Juan Bautista Romero), who had bought the land in 1849. These gardens are named after Joaquín Monforte Parrés, whose wife had inherited the property in 1872 (she was the niece of Juan Bautista Romero). , Marquis of San Juan).