This park is organized by walks that are each dedicated to a tree: palm walk, olive tree, oak, poplar, etc.
At the end of this street was the Xerea gate of the 12th century Muslim wall. The street has several manor houses from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Valencia Cathedral was started in the 13th century, being the master builder Arnau Vidal. The small difference in height between the central nave and the lateral ones meant that it did not need flying buttresses to counteract the thrust of the vault, resulting somewhat squat, unlike most Gothic constructions, which tend towards the top.
The Door of the Apostles (in the photo), is already the fourteenth century and was made by Nicolás de Ancona in a style of clear French influence.
At this door, the Water Court meets every Thursday, an irrigation jury in charge of solving conflicts that may arise between the farmers of the of Irrigators community from the valencian garden.
The Prince Felipe Science Museum, built in 2000, is dedicated to science, technology and the environment. Inside it has a Foucault pendulum, which is used to show that the Earth rotates on its axis.
The College of Piarists has a rectangular courtyard with a small belfry with three bells, and a clock. On the ground floor, the courtyard has semicircular arches. The whole of the school and convent was built between 1739 and 1742.
This street is named after a Franciscan convent that was in it and that was called the Crown of Christ. The convent was located where today is the Cultural Center of Beneficencia.
104a LA SEO NEIGHBORHOOD. Nules Square. Palace of the Catalá de Valeriola (XV century)
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The building on the right is the Palace of the Catalá de Valeriola family (15th century). In the 18th century it acquired its current appearance in a reform. It has hosted the Academy of the Nocturns, which was a literary circle that met at night, and also the Economic Society of Friends of the Country. At present it is a headquarters of the Consellería.
The sculpture of St. Martin and the Poor man was created by sculptor Pierre Van Béckere in the fifteenth century. This magnificent Flemish sculpture was bought and brought from Flanders to Valencia in 1494.
This church was started in the 13th century on the site of an old mosque, but the current construction is the work of the 17th century, and the bell tower is from the 18th century. The slight inclination of the bell tower is a consequence of the earthquake that occurred on March 5, 1822. At the beginning of the 20th century the exterior of the church was renovated. Inside it has an original altarpiece from the seventeenth century.
The Palace of the Inquisition was located in this square, also bordering Samaniego and Navellos streets.
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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.
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.
The building on the right was the headquarters of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, located in a 15th century Gothic palace that belonged to José Ruiz de Lihory, Barón de Alcahalí.
The Círculo de Bellas Artes was founded in 1894 and artists such as Joaquín Agrasot (one of its promoters), Ignacio Pinazo, Joaquín Sorolla, Francisco Lozano, Genaro Lahuerta, etc. have belonged to it. Its headquarters were in various places. In 2003 he moved to this palace on Cadirers Street, where he stayed until 2016.