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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Royal Palace of Valencia was destroyed by the defenders of the city, before the attack of the French troops, at the beginning of the 19th century. It was about Marshal Suchet not occupying it and attacking ...
This pedestrian street, formerly led to the Ruzafa gate of the medieval wall. On the street was the Trianón Palace or Lyric Theater, designed by Javier Goerlich and inaugurated in 1914. It was demolished ...
This street is named for the old butcher shops that were on it, although today there are none left.
Formerly, as it appears in a tile plate, it was called the Portal del Coixo (Portal del Cojo). The ...
In this small square, at number 7, some strange noise phenomena occurred in 1915 that stopped a little later. Although the authorities that investigated them gave as reasons natural causes due to the instability ...
In this square are the Parcent gardens. The square occupies the space where Parcent's palace used to be, of which we see in the image the old doorway, which now serves as the entrance to the gardens.
The ...
This church stands on the ruins of the Roman circus and the Muslim wall from the 12th century, where the Xerea gate (Bab al Saria) stood.
This church, called La Congregación, was the 17th century temple ...
The prosperous Valencian bourgeoisie lived in this street in the mid-19th century. Since then its architecture has been modified little, keeping a lot of it until today.
Antonio Aparisi y Guijarro was ...
... the light from the outside enters it through five elongated windows. The complex is surrounded by a stone bench that was rebuilt in the 1950s.
In it the old religious community met to make decisions ...
This street runs parallel to that of La Paz, although it has a more sinuous layout as it is older. It is so called because it led to the Sea Gate of the fourteenth century wall.
This street is named after the pattern of the barchillas (the barchilla was a measure of capacity) that is located under the arch, in the part that falls to the Archbishop's Palace. ...