This square was previously called Plaza de San Gil. It is the Museum of the History of Medicine and Science.
The building on the right is the Costume House, the late eighteenth century. Its architect was José García and serves as a meeting place to the judges of the Court of the Waters before attending the trials held in front, at the door of the Apostles of the Cathedral. It is also a public library.
Formerly it used for municipal authorities to dress to participate in public ceremonies, hence its name.
The land belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture. It was a station dedicated to horticultural research and experimentation.
This garden is accessed from the area of the palace, by a vain open on a wall separating the garden area. In the area of the palace there is a playground.
In this garden include the collection of palms and tropical trees.
It was opened in 1916. Being empty and in a state of ruin, its restoration was undertaken in 1997.
506a SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOOD. Sorolla Painter Street. Earls Peñalba Palace (18th century)
- San Francisco Neighborhood
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This rococo palace was partially occupied, the mid-twentieth century, by the College of Architects. In 1971 it was acquired by Banco Urquijo. It currently houses the Banco de Sabadell.
The first director of the Botanical in its new facility Quart street was Vicente Alfonso Lorente, in the early nineteenth century. The new garden will host campuses on a set of pictures (Linnaean system).
This home garden will be interrupted by the invasion of the French army and the War of Independence, that in this area of Valencia was very destructive. Lorente, director of the Botanical, was taken prisoner by the French and sentenced to death. He was saved by the intervention in his favor the French botanist Leon Dufour.
On the east side of the street the hospital d'En Bou (S. XIV), the Colegio San Fulgencio (S. XVI) and the convent of Santa Clara (S. XVII) was. On the west side was the hospice Montserrat (S. XVI). All these buildings disappeared after the city-planning reforms undertaken between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
001 CARMEN NEIGHBORHOOD. Town hall of Valencia. Quart Towers (15th century)
- Carmen Neighborhood
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The towers were built by the "masters of stone" Baldomar Francesc and Pere Compte. This door began building two years earlier (1441) than the Castel Nuovo of Naples (1443), with which bears some resemblance. The two buildings were made under the reign of Alfonso the Magnanimous because he was king of Valencia and Naples.
Its walls preserve the impacts of artillery, even after the restoration of various Carlist wars like the Civil War and, especially, the War of Independence.
In the basement of the square Tossal Gallery, official exhibition center that remains of the Islamic wall of Balensiya has: a square tower and a stretch of the wall of the XII century; and a bent door of the eleventh century.
111c LA SEO NEIGHBORHOOD. Decimus Junius Brutus Square. Hook Point building (1906)
- La Seo Neighborhood
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This building is designed by the architect Manuel Perís Ferrando, who is also author of other modernist buildings in the widening of Valencia. The initial name of this building was Casa Sancho, but was given the Hook Point decorating the facade.