515b SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOOD. Gardens of Old General Hospital
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In 2012 the gardens of the library of the old General Hospital were remodeled.
The courtyard acts as a distributor for the various rooms of the palace with other small stairs that lead to the basement and the mezzanine.
On the main floor you can see Gothic windows with fine columns that overlook the courtyard.
In this street is the house where the mathematician, theologian and cartographer Tomás Vicente Tosca was born, who in 1704 made a plan of Valencia in perspective. He was called "el capellà de les ratlletes" (the chaplain of the rayitas).
On the street there is also a photography studio founded in 1901.
In this street was the collegiate church of S. Bartolomé, of which only its tower remains. This church suffered serious damage during the Civil War and had to be demolished in 1944. It was one of the oldest churches in Valencia, which was donated by Jaime I to the knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, and was built a new plant in the seventeenth century.
The landscaping of the central space, of this Gran Vía, was designed by Francisco Mora in 1912. From its early days it still conserves the cast iron street lamps, which at the beginning of the 20th century still worked with gas.
In this square are the palace (former monastery) and the church called the Temple.
Although the land on which they sit belongs, since the beginning of the 14th century, to the Order of Montesa, it continued to retain the name of the Temple. Indeed, in 1317 the Order of Montesa inherited the monastery and the church when the Order of the Temple was dissolved.
This street is named after the clock that was in the Municipal Council, located where today is the garden of the Palace of the Generalitat, which can be seen at the end of the street. At the beginning of the 15th century the official clock was installed in the Miguelete tower.
In some excavations carried out in this street, the Roman mosaic of the Medusa, from the second century, was found. This mosaic is in the Museum of History of Valencia.
The name of this park comes from the rambla that formerly crossed these lands. The rambla has been recovered and surrounded by riparian forests.
The project for this building and the Monforte gardens was carried out by the architect Sebastián Moleón, also the author of the Valencia Bullring. Both the palace and the gardens date from 1859.
The south portal of the church, the one that faces the street of the Abadía de San Martín, is from the 18th century and has a relief attributed to Ignacio Vergara.
This square is located just behind the Talía theater and in her there are also the offices of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT).
The walls of the market are covered by abundant ceramics from the La Ceramo factory in Benicalap.
The fishmonger's dome has a swordfish-shaped weathervane (in the image), while the larger dome has a parrot-shaped weathervane.
This street also faces the back of the Baylia Palace (Provincial Council of Valencia).
Here the street ends at Serranos street.