This building was that of the University of Valencia, where there were some faculties until a few years ago. Originally from the end of the 15th century, it reached its current configuration with the reform ...
This Visigoth crypt was built to bury a higher ecclesiastical office. It receives the name of the Crypt of the San Vicente Prison, because in this place there was also the prison where the Valencian saint ...
The Patio de los Naranjos is a small garden in the Lonja de Valencia where there is a starry fountain, it is not the original, but a recent neo-Gothic construction. The garden was watered with water from ...
The Lonja de Valencia has had various uses. It even became a military barracks, after the War of Succession and until 1762. Its gardens were used as a kitchen for the troops, which caused serious deterioration. ...
In the Contract Room, completed in 1498, its eight helical columns stand out, opening up like palm trees to support the vault. Its maximum height is 17.40 m.
The battlements of the coastal path or barbican had to be restored, under the direction of José Aixa Íñigo, starting in 1890. In many photos from the 19th century they are destroyed.
The appearance they offered after its construction was different, since the tracery were painted reddish. The "claves" and the beginnings of the vaults were painted by Marçal del Sax and Pere Nicolau. ...
The gates of Serranos never fulfilled a defensive function (they were never attacked). They did serve, as a reception for kings and for celebrations. These towers were also used as a prison from 1586 to ...
These doors housed for a time, during the Civil War, the works of art from the Prado Museum; guarded by the Republican Government before the danger of destruction by the aerial bombings on Madrid.
The garden was designed, by José Benlliure himself, in the style of the private gardens of the time, with cypresses, pines, orange trees, lemon trees, laurels, jasmine, myrtles, etc.
José Benlliure y Gil died in this house in 1937, at the age of 82.
In the house there are not only works by the Benlliure family, there are also works by Sorolla, Muñoz Degraín and other artists of the ...
The building dates from 1880 and was acquired by José Benlliure and Gil on their return from Rome in 1912. The house was renovated and Benlliure equipped it with furniture brought from Italy, which are ...
The gates of the wall of Valencia used to be closed at the touch of the souls (from 8 pm to 9 pm), only the Puerta del Real remained open at night until 11 pm. Those who arrived later than that time had ...