This park, located near the town cemetery, has an area of 140,000 m. squares. The park also has a cultural center with theater, among other agencies. It is the image building.
This church was started in the seventeenth century on the site of an ancient mosque, but the present building is the work of the seventeenth century and eighteenth century bell tower. The slight inclination of the bell is a consequence of the earthquake on March 5th of 1822. In the early twentieth century, its exterior was renovated. The interior has an original seventeenth-century altarpiece.
The Palace of the Inquisition was located in this square, also bordering the street Samaniego and the Navellos.
In the early fifteenth century, it is the oldest bridge in Valencia. It was also called "Catalans" because around the Catalans settlers were established.
1600 BENIFERRI NEIGHBORHOOD. Congresses Palace of Norman Foster (1998)
- Beniferri Neighborhood
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The image had at first this building when it was built in 1998 as a beautiful object perched on a garden area, has radically changed to be surrounded by high buildings.
They are so called because they are oriented toward the Serrania and she used to enter the inhabitants of this, serrano.
In the year 1931 they were declared National Historic-Artistic Monument.
Statues of San Vicente Martir and San Vicente Ferrer, the seventeenth century, were destroyed during the Civil War. They were replenished during the years 1945-1946. Of San Vicente Ferrer (pictured) is the work of Ignacio Pinazo Martínez.
The project of this building and the gardens of Monforte, was designed by architect Sebastian Moleón, author of the Plaza de Toros de Valencia. Both the palace, and the gardens, dating from 1859.
In 1854 he moved the House of the City, from the garden of the Generalitat, to its present location in the Town Hall Square. The building that houses is the former House of Education (S. XVIII).
In 1906 some important reforms that would not end until the late 30s of the twentieth century, highlighting her new facade with its clock tower 50 m start. tall, Carlos Carbonell and Francisco Mora. Inside are marble staircase, the ballroom (called glass), the Pompeian room and fireplace room (mayor's office).
In 1859 the greenhouse for tropical plants is designed. It is work of Sebastián Monleón Estellés, the same architect who designed the bullring in Valencia.
The Archbishop's Palace, right, was begun in the thirteenth century, but this time are very few remains. The current building dates from the mid-twentieth century, as it was burned in 1936.
109a LA SEO NEIGHBORHOOD. Manises Square. Baylia Palace (16-19th century)
- La Seo Neighborhood
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The palace Baylia is the current headquarters of the Provincial Council of Valencia. The patio is what little remains of the sixteenth century, after the reform of the nineteenth century, but the staircase is neogothic.
In this square, located outside the walls in times of Muslim Valencia, the community of citizens gathered on special occasions (the sar'ia). That gave name to the neighborhood located next to (the Xerea), and within the wall.
The building on the left is the Bancaja Cultural Centre. Dates from 1891 and was remodeled in 1980-1982. Of its original interior layout there is nothing left to adapt the building for cultural work. 1891 only preserves the facades.
In the foreground is a statue of San Vicente Ferrer, who is here since 1960. This is attributed to Ignacio Vergara, but not much security. The statue is located in the same square where it was placed the convent of San Vicente Ferrer and near his birthplace.