The square is dedicated to Queen Maria de las Mercedes, wife of Alfonso XII. During the Republic Square was called the Region.
In this square was installed in 1930, the first light of Valencia. What manually triggering an urban guard.
In 1970 it passed to municipal property and garden expands westwards.
This is the first bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava for the city of Valencia. It was completed in 1989.
114a LA SEO NEIGHBORHOOD. San Luis Beltrán Square. Almudín (14th century)
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The Almudín was expanded during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The building was used for storage and distribution of wheat for the city. Its name comes from the Arabic "bushel", a measure of capacity for grain used by Muslims in Spain.
Interior Almudín with an exhibition of Manolo Valdes, former member of Team Chronicle.
In general the modernist influence is evident in the decoration of stucco and tiles.
Carmen The Centre was established after the headquarters of the School of Fine Arts giveave San Carlos and of the School of Arts and Crafts, in 1986; and restoration begun in 1989. The restoration turned what was once the convent of Carmen in an exhibition space.
In this garden include the collection of palms and tropical trees.
The street is dedicated to the Visigoth king left Arianism in 598 to convert to Catholicism.
At this point, next to the building of the former Guild of Carpenters, the road narrows to lead Balmes Street.
This small garden has about 4,000 square meters and its theme is the story of the fable of the Hesperides, starring Hercules.
In the 30s of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century buildings on the street began to be replaced by others of Rationalist and Art Deco style. This occurred in the stretch of the Maria Cristina Avenue to the Plaza de San Agustin.
In 1844 he was one of the first to be lit by gas lamps and in it the first cinemas (Romea, Turia, etc.) were also established. Olympia, now a theater, cinema was built in the grounds of the convent of San Gregorio, demolished in 1911.
109e LA SEO NEIGHBORHOOD. Manises Square. Generalitat Palace (15th century)e
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The Palau de la Generalitat became Audience mid-eighteenth century. Felipe V had already dissolved the General Council of the Kingdom of Valencia (former Government) in 1709. From 1923 he became Provincial Government until the arrival of democracy went back to house the Generalitat in 1982.