The construction, by the architect Joaquín María Belda Ibáñez, is arranged around several courtyards. Some of these patios are porticoed, with iron columns.
The construction of Avenida del Cid, in the mid-20th century, was going to be an alternative to the road to Madrid through the Sierra de las Cabrillas, which passed through the towns of Mislata and Quart de Poblet.
This street is so named because many nobles settled here in the past, hence several palaces are preserved in it. The reason for settling on this street was that at the beginning of it, approximately where the Plaza de San Jaime is located, there was a group of buildings owned by the king.
This bridge communicated the city with the Camí de la Mar (current Avda. Del Puerto), hence its name. It was built during the years 1592-1596. During the Republic, the ramps were replaced by stairs (according to a project by Javier Goerlich) and communication with the port began to be made through the Aragón bridge.
Together with the Serranos bridge, pedestrianized in 2012, they are the two pedestrian bridges that the city of Valencia has.
The old tiled baseboards of the patios were replaced by others made by the artist Carmen Calvo.
220 LA XEREA NEIGHBORHOOD. Booksellers Street. Boïl de Arenós Palace (18th century) Valencia Stock Exchange
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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 18th century. Already in the twentieth century, it lost its back patio and was divided into two, one of the parts being used for housing. In the 90s of the 20th century it was rehabilitated and is currently the headquarters of the Valencia Stock Exchange. The Boïl de Arenós coat of arms still appears on its cover.
512 SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOOD. Courthouse. Old Customs (18th century)
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This building, started in 1758, went from being a Customs Office to being a Tobacco Factory (1828). It was carried out by Felipe Rubio, Antonio Gilabert and Tomás Miner. In 1895 it suffered a terrible fire. In 1914, the reform works began to transform it into a Palace of Justice, which happened in 1922.
The sculptures of Carlos III, Justice and Prudence, which appear at the top of the cover, are works by Ignacio Vergara.
In this street was the "Casa de las Rocas" (15th century), where in the past those floats (Rocas) from the 16th century were kept. The "Rocas" are taken out in the Corpus Christi procession.
This street is located in one of the highest points in the city. In it was the old house of the Cid, at the height of numbers 29 and 31 of the street. The Cid's house was demolished in 1855.
This house of the Cid became a theater from 1761 to 1832, the year in which the theatrical performances began in the new Principal Theater. It was the Balda theater.
The construction of this church began in the 13th century on the site of an old mosque. In the second half of the fourteenth century it was expanded. Formerly it was called the church of San Jorge. Only the Romanesque style bell tower remains from these periods, very archaic for the time (13th century), and which was restored during the years 2000-2005.
In the 15th century a new church was built, which will later be decorated in a baroque style inside (17th century), and another reform in the 19th century gives it its current appearance.
The church was the headquarters of the Cofradía de Ballesteros de Valencia.
The building on the left is the Palacio de Raga, also called the Palacio de los Marquesses de González de Quirós. The neoclassical palace is today occupied by a residence for the elderly and was previously the headquarters of the Teresian Institute, dedicated to teaching.
To the right is the Jimmy Glass Club jazz club.
In 1767, Gregorio Mayans had already claimed a garden that was the responsibility of a professor of botany, but that did not neglect the plantations of interest to medicine.
206c LA XEREA NEIGHBORHOOD. Tetouan Square. Cloister of the convent of Santo Domingo (S. XIV)
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The cloister of the Santo Domingo Convent is square (34 m. On each side) and has six pointed arches on each side, except for the north side, which has five. The vaults are ribbed with brick inserts. The arches have tracery only in their eastern part.
The second floor is already from the 17th century.