The name of the street dates from 1873, because the Provincial Museum of Painting was located here at that time, whose works have been found since 1942 in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (San Pío V).
For a time the School of Fine Arts was also here.
The prosperous Valencian bourgeoisie lived in this street in the mid-19th century. Since then its architecture has been modified little, keeping a lot of it until today.
Antonio Aparisi y Guijarro was born in this street in 1815. This lawyer from the Traditionalist Party, in his writings attacked liberalism, democracy and, above all, Krausism.
These sheds of the port of Valencia were built by José María Fuster and Fausto Élio. Its structure is metallic for the most part. They stand out for their modernist decoration in the side buildings, with reliefs alluding to commerce and navigation, and mosaics with fruits.
The stone pier was not built until 1685 and consisted of a simple boardwalk that jutted out into the sea. Until then it was made of wood and the transport was carried out to the coast with boats, these brought the goods from the ships located out to sea. But it was not until 1852 when the modern port started.
The typical town houses of this nucleus correspond to the typology of farmhouses from the orchard of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These consisted of a wide door for the entrance of cars and horses.
The old Exhibition Bridge was inaugurated in 1909 on the occasion of the Regional Exhibition. It was the first reinforced concrete bridge built in Valencia. In 1957 the flood destroyed it.
In its place, a footbridge was built that lasted until the completion of the new bridge in 1991-1995, the work of Santiago Calatrava. This bridge is built in white painted steel and, due to its large arch, the Valencians have named it "La Peineta".
This market is located in two small renovated squares in Valencia, between Guillén del Rey and Cobertizo de Santo Tomás streets; next to the so-called Ibáñez square and the Tapinería street.
This hospital is the first in Spain to apply the model that emerged in northern Italy, with a central space from where all the wards were controlled and two infirmaries where patients could be separated by sex and ailments. Of the two infirmaries, only the one that has been transformed into a public library remains standing today. The other was demolished in 1974 and loose pieces remain in the gardens (columns, capitals, etc.).
It is the only palace on Caballeros street that has a garden, located at the end of the courtyard.
The Hemispheric is situated between two rectangular ponds. It is also Planetarium and Laserium.
The sculpture of the boy at the fountain was stolen during the Civil War and replaced by another in the 1940s.
This square was called before Calatrava, because in it was the church of the Knights of the Order of Calatrava. This church was torn down in the early 19th century.
Section VI of the Jardín del Turia runs from the San José bridge to the Trinidad bridge and has an area of 129,320 m2.
In 1981, the first democratic city council contracted the Advancement of the Special Plan for the Interior Reform of Old bed of the Turia to Ricardo Bofill's architecture workshop.
