Back of the Portal de Valldigna.

The name of the street is taken from the consulate of the Royal Monastery of Santa María de la Valldigna (Casa Procura), which was the permanent headquarters of this monastery in the city of Valencia; and that it was located near the portal, in the current Landerer street.

In 1678 permission was granted to the owner of a neighboring house to expand his house on the portal.

In this square, located outside the walls in times of Muslim Valencia, the community of citizens met on special occasions (the sar'ia). That gave its name to the neighborhood located next to it (la Xerea), already within the wall.

The building on the left is the Bancaja Cultural Center. It dates from 1891 and was remodeled in the years 1980-1982. Nothing remains of its original interior distribution as the building was adapted for its cultural work, so from 1981 it only conserves the facades.

In the foreground there is a statue of San Vicente Ferrer, who has been here since 1960. It is attributed to Ignacio Vergara, but there is not much security. The statue is located in the same square where the former convent of San Vicente Ferrer was located and near his birthplace.

The market has more than 8,000 m. squares and a grandiose metal structure supported by slender cast iron pillars.

The building, with an irregular floor plan, is articulated with a wider street, which joins the main entrances of the Plaza del Mercado and Avenida del Oeste, and a perpendicular axis to it that connects secondary accesses.

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