Benicalap Park has a relaxation area designed in a certain Arabic style.
Benicalap Park has a relaxation area designed in a certain Arabic style.
This is an area of clearly childish character. In addition to the Gulliver slides, it has miniature golf and skateboard tracks; also two giant chess. All surrounded by grass and vegetation.
From this section is the City of Arts and Sciences, in sections from XIII to XVI. To complete the garden, still missing sections XVII and XVIII.
After the conquest of Valencia by Jaime I, the Ruzafa gardens became farmlands with farmhouses occupied by the conquerors. The army of Jaime I settled in Ruzafa to direct the siege and the conquest of Valencia from here. The surrender of Muslim Valencia would also be signed here, on September 28, 1238.
From 1811 to 1877, Ruzafa was an independent town from Valencia.
This long street is actually a piece of the famous Roman Via Augusta. Around 1850 the street was widened by 10 m. at 14 m. wide. Medieval buildings disappeared, in this section that goes from the Plaza de la Reina to the Plaza de la Ayuntamiento, and the street was filled with nineteenth-century buildings that have come down to us.
In 1882, a textile shop located in this street called Casa Conejos, was the first to have electric lighting in all of Valencia. In 1886 electric lighting was already installed throughout the city, however gas street lamps were still used for the streets.
The work of the architect Vicente Ferrer Peris, also the author of the "Ferrer Building" on Cirilo Amorós Street, it is an interesting example of the influence of Viennese modernism in Valencia (Viennese Secession). Currently it is part of the entrance of a public school.
It was from 1874 when this place began to be configured as a public garden, when the Crown renounced its property. In the year 1887 they become dependent on the Diputación and in the year 1903 they are ceded to the City Council, which will use it at first as a plant nursery; for this reason it also receives the name of Jardines de los Viveros. It is in the year 1912 when it acquires the appearance of a municipal park for the citizens' pastime. In 1916 the City Council acquired the land and in 1919 there was an expansion project.
The City of Arts and Sciences sits on the old Turia riverbed, now converted into a garden when the river course deviates.
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 in the background.
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.
Inside the park there are tracks for practicing sports and a children's playground, it also has two kiosks with toilets. In its central part it has an esplanade with an auditorium.
An old combat plane has been installed as a decoration in the park, a reminder of the previous use of these lands as an aviation barracks.
The College of Piarists has a rectangular courtyard with a small belfry with three bells, and a clock. On the ground floor, the courtyard has semicircular arches. The whole of the school and convent was built between 1739 and 1742.
These gardens have a metallic tunnel covered with bougainvillea.