The Marchalenes Park also has a wide variety of shrubs and herbaceous plants.
A neighboring building that had been built in the second half of the 20th century has been integrated into the park.
The entire perimeter, both of the garden and of the mansion, has been surrounded by a wall.
The garden retains few elements of its initial configuration.
These doors housed for a time, during the Civil War, the works of art from the Prado Museum; guarded by the Republican Government before the danger of destruction by the aerial bombings on Madrid.
In the photo you can see the Almirante's palace, from the 15th century, although its façade is already from the 18th century. This palace has interesting Gothic coffered ceilings in the lobby and in the Hall of Shields. It also has a Renaissance coffered ceiling (on the mezzanine) and a Baroque one (in the Fireplace Room). It is currently the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
The Congresses Palace of Valencia, made by Norman Foster in 1998, initially had the image as a beautiful object perched on a garden area. This has changed radically to be surrounded by tall buildings.
The image had at first this building when it was built in 1998 as a beautiful object perched on a garden area, has radically changed to be surrounded by high buildings.
In this square there was a building by Demetrio Ribes inspired by the Chicago School, it was the building Warehouses Ernesto Ferrer, demolished in 1977.
The square was formerly called San Jorge.
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The building dates from 1880 and was acquired by José Benlliure and Gil on their return from Rome in 1912. The house was renovated and Benlliure equipped it with furniture brought from Italy, which are currently preserved in the building.
In 1878, the garden extended northwards reaching the Paseo de la Pechina and is configured as we know it today.
The first director of the Botanico, in its new installation on Calle Quart, was Vicente Alfonso Lorente, at the beginning of the 19th century. The new garden will host the plants on a frame system (Linnaeus system).
This beginning of the garden will be interrupted by the invasion of the French army and the War of Independence, which in this area of Valencia was very destructive. Lorente, the director of the Botanical Garden, was taken prisoner by the French and sentenced to death. He was saved by the intervention on his behalf of the French botanist Leon Dufour.
The Renaissance cloister is already from the 16th century.
Except for the church, from 1838 on, the rest of the convent will be used as a Museum and School of Fine Arts.
After the approval of the project to divert the riverbed of the Turia, the delirium of the Francoist administration led to the idea of using the old riverbed for an industrial area, train stations and motorways.
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.
This square is dedicated to the Fueros of Valencia, promulgated in 1261 by Jaime I. It was the legislation of the Valencian territory until 1707, when King Felipe V of Bourbon repealed them with the Nueva Planta Decrees.