The General Hospital was founded, in the year 1512, by an order of Ferdinand the Catholic. With this order, all the hospitals of the time that were in Valencia were consolidated into one.

An isolated portal remains of the old hospital, which was destroyed by fire in 1545 (in the image). The current building dates from 1546 and is the work of Gaspar Gregori, who also built the gallery of arcades of the cathedral that overlooks the Plaza de la Virgen. The hospital was built in a fully Renaissance style.

In 1960 the new General Hospital was built on Avenida del Cid. Today, the Gaspar Gregori building is used as a public library.

This square is dedicated to the 19th century conservative poet and deputy, Teodoro Llorente, who lived in the building opposite in the photo.

The statue is dedicated to the painter Ribera. This sculpture underwent several transfers until it was located in this square.

Here was also the tower of Ali Bufat, demolished in 1865. It was famous because here the Muslims raised the banner of Jaime I as a sign of the surrender of Balansiya, the Muslim Valencia.

This church was completed in 1261 and is the oldest preserved church in Valencia. Since 1987 he has belonged to Opus Dei.

The Knights of Saint John of the Hospital of Jerusalem participated in the conquest of Valencia with Jaime I and the latter, in 1238, donated the land on which there was a mosque to said Order so that his church could be built.

The Palace of the Exhibition was built, provisionally, for the Regional Exhibition of 1909. It was preserved later, serving for various activities: from 1966 to 1979 it was the Higher Technical School of Architecture. It was restored in 2003.

Neo-Gothic in style, it has obvious references to the Lonja, the Torres de Serranos and the Miguelete.

This street is dedicated to the musician Salvador Giner y Vidal, who in 1893 founded the Orfeón Valenciano el Micalet Choral Society.

The street was one of the main streets of the "medieval mancebía" (14th century) that occupied a good part of the Carmen neighborhood. This brothel was organized in 1325 by Jaime II. The mancebía was therefore an official brothel, walled and controlled by the municipal government, which tried not to become a sordid place. There were even luxurious houses with orchards and gardens. The city doctors controlled the prostitutes. In the mancebía there were hostals, taverns and eating houses. Everyone who passed had to leave their weapons at the entrance. It disappeared in 1677. It was also called Pobla de les Dones Pecadrius.

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