The Polifilo garden was inaugurated in the year 2000 and is 39,400 m2.
This garden pays homage to the book El Sueño de Polifilo, a Renaissance work by Francesco Colonna.
The Central Market was carried out by Francesc Guardia i Vidal and Alexandre Soler i March (both from the Barcelona School of Architecture). The project was presented in 1910, but construction did not begin until 1914.
This small garden has approximately 4,000 square meters and its theme is the story of the fable of the Hesperides, starring Hercules.
Important adaptation works were carried out in the garden, culminating in the year 2000.
The Rambleta Park also has a sports area.
Evergreen trees such as palm trees, ficus trees, eucalyptus trees, magnolias, etc. have been planted on the east side, forming a screen.
221a LA XEREA NEIGHBORHOOD. St. Vincent Ferrer Square. Church of St. Thomas and St. Philip Neri (18th century)
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This square was formed by the demolition of a block of houses in 1772. The square was first called the Congregation. In 1931 it was named after San Vicente Ferrer. It is popularly known as "Plaza de los Patos" for the sculptures of its fountain.
Both the Palace of the Arts and the related buildings are covered in white "trencadís" (cut tiles). Trencadís, both blue and white, is used throughout this City of Arts and Sciences. The "trencadís" had already been used in the Estación del Norte and in the Mercado de Colón.
Section II has an area of 99,890 m2 and includes from the Rovella weir to the Campanar bridge.
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.
At the back of the Palace of the Generalitat there is a garden since 1860. Formerly, since the fourteenth century, the House of the City (municipal government) stood here, which was demolished in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Before its stone construction there was a wooden bridge.
Here were the sculptures of San Luis Beltrán and Santo Tomás de Villanueva, which today are on the Trinidad bridge. Now there is a sculpture of Saint Joseph. This bridge was also called the Zaidía Bridge and the New Bridge.
218a LA XEREA NEIGHBORHOOD.Street of Poet Querol. Palace of Marquis Dos Aguas (18th century)
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Although older, the current configuration of this palace responds to the interventions of the 18th century. Hipólito Rovira, Ignacio Vergara and Luis Domingo took part in the renovation. Between 1969-1971 there was an extension of the palace in the same style, and in the years 1991-1998 restoration and consolidation works were carried out due to its condition.
It is the headquarters of the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts.