They were built in the mid-15th century in the Gothic style. The order for the construction of city walls, towers and gates, as well as their maintenance and repair, was carried out by the Vella de Murs ...
These towers owe their name to the fact that the road leading to the town of Quart de Poblet started from them, a town that belonged to the Tarragona monastery of Poblet.
They were also called towers ...
These towers and those of Serranos are the remains of the walls of Valencia, demolished in 1865 at the initiative of the then civil governor, Cirilo Amorós. His demolition served, among other things, to ...
Several architects participated in this building, including Javier Goerlich. The building shows the radical change given by postwar architecture, here all rationalism has disappeared.
In this avenue, planted with palm trees along its entire length, is the collegiate church of San Bartolomé (1962), where the ceramic mural by the artist Andrés Cillero stands out, which was considered ...
The Avenida del Reino de Valencia separates the Ruzafa neighborhood from the Ensanche. This avenue has had different names: Victoria Eugenia, April 14, José Antonio and Antiguo Reino de Valencia.
On ...
The religious iconography of the covers of the Lonja de Valencia is consistent with the construction, conceived as a temple of the merchants. Here the merchants did business and there was the official ...
La Lonja de Valencia has been a World Heritage Site since 1996.
This street is also called de los Escalones de la Lonja and it preserves the oldest pavement in the city, from the 16th century.
The various scenes on the door of the Lonja de Valencia tell us about the capital sins; we see scenes of witchcraft, a man defecating, a couple fornicating, a man with a mace, etc.
The construction of the Lonja de Valencia responds to the commercial and maritime boom of the city during the 15th century. The works began in 1483 by Pere Compte and Joan Ibarra; and they end in 1548, ...
The street receives this name because several booksellers were established here between the 15th and 16th centuries.
Although of Gothic origin, most of the construction of this palace dates from the ...
This entrance to the Cathedral of Valencia was started by the German artist Konrad Rudolf in the early 18th century. The sculptors Francisco and Ignacio Vergara participated in it.
It is narrow because ...
The Benicarló palace, on the left, is the current seat of the Valencian Courts. The works on this palace were started in the 15th century by Francesc Martínez Biulaigua, who soon died. He was succeeded ...
They are so called because they are oriented towards the Serranía and the inhabitants of this region, the Serranos, used to enter through it.
In 1931 they were declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument. ...
Built at the end of the 14th century by the master Pere Balaguer, they are inspired by the door of the Poblet monastery (Tarragona), although these in Valencia are more monumental. They have a height of ...
It was the main access to the city of Valencia. It must be taken into account that the roads of the other two capitals of the Crown of Aragon reached them: Barcelona and Zaragoza.
In 2000 a cleaning ...
This was the home of José Benlliure Gil and his family. It is interesting for being the sample of a typical Valencian bourgeois house from the end of the 19th century, with its small garden and the study ...
... it bears a certain resemblance. The two constructions were made under the reign of Alfonso the Magnanimous, since he was king of Valencia and Naples.
Its walls retain the artillery impacts, even after ...
This avenue separates the district of Benicalap from that of Campanar. The name of Campanar is believed to derive from camp (field) since when Jaime I donated these lands, in the 13th century, there was ...