This building, which takes its name from a poem by Ausiàs March, was designed by the British architect David Chipperfield and the Spanish architect Fermín Vázquez.
121b SEO NEIGHBORHOOD. Archbishop Square. Valencia City Council. Crypt of San Vicente Mártir (6th century)
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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 was locked up.
Benicalap Park was inaugurated in 1983 and is located where there used to be some orange groves.
In this kind of square that forms Viciana Street, there is a computer scientist design and video game school.
This church, of Gothic origin, will be in the 16th and 17th centuries when it acquires its current appearance. It will suffer several fires throughout its history, the first in 1311. In 1592, it suffers another fire and the last in 1936.
The Faculty of Theology, on the left, was built in the early 19th century where before the Conde del Real's house. At first the building was used as a Council Seminary.
The land for these gardens was acquired in different phases. The successive interventions extended its surface to Jaca street.
Nothing is preserved of the original layout and vegetation.
From this square starts the street of Quart (intramural). To the left of this street begins the leisure area of the Carmen neighborhood.
The aqueduct that carried the water to the center of the Roman city ran along Calle de Quart (within the walls).
This street is named after a Franciscan convent that was in it and that was called the Crown of Christ. The convent was located where today is the Cultural Center of Beneficencia.
1301 ROYAL FLAT NEIGHBORHOOD. Alameda Promenade. Music Palace (1987)
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The extension of the Alameda, carried out at the end of the 20th century, has not managed to continue with the idea of a landscaped promenade of the old Alameda.
The Palau de la Música, which appears in the photo, is the work of José María García de Paredes and is located in this extension of the Alameda.
This chalet houses memories, personal objects and literary works of the Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
It has three floors, the ground floor dedicated to the Assembly Hall. In the first is the museum itself and the second, dedicated to research, contains manuscripts and numerous editions of his works.
The building was designed by the architect Vicente Bochons Llorente for the writer. It was seized by the Francoist city council after the Civil War and used by the Naval Arrows of the Movement. Later, in the 80s of the 20th century, it fell into disuse and was ruined, being demolished.
In the 1990s, the Valencia City Council had to rebuild it in its entirety, respecting its original appearance. It was inaugurated as the Blasco Ibáñez House Museum in 1997.
The fountain with the small sculpture of S. Luis Beltrán dates from 1966. Both the statue and the fountain were damaged by acts of vandalism in 2011, and were restored shortly after.