030g CARMEN NEIGHBORHOOD. Valencia City Council. Benlliure House Museum
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The garden contains some elements of the old convent of San Francisco, which had been demolished.
The garden contains some elements of the old convent of San Francisco, which had been demolished.
At the end of the garden, to the left, there is a paellero covered with tiles. Tilework is very present in this garden, both on benches and on walls.
The painter's studio is located in a building at the end of the small garden. In it there are also objects that the artist collected.
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 museum houses "Las Rocas", floats that parade on Corpus Christi day through the city center. Apparently the name alludes to its size and shapes, since the scenes were represented in what were called "entremeses" or "muntanyes".
The museum is an extension of the "Casa de Las Rocas", with an 18th century building that overlooks Roteros Street (rotero means farmer) where it now has the entrance. The new museum was inaugurated in 2006.
Type of house called house-staircase or escaleta. These houses had one dwelling per floor and it was climbed by a side staircase. They were usually for rent and were occupied by the lower classes of the city. There used to be a workshop on the ground floor. Escaletas emerged at the end of the 17th century and developed during the 18th century.
This square is dedicated to the Fueros of Valencia, promulgated in 1261 by Jaime I. It was the legislation of the Valencian territory until 1707, when King Felipe V of Bourbon repealed them with the Nueva Planta Decrees.
At first, these fueros did not apply to the entire Valencian territory, so that in some parts the fueros of other sites of the Crown of Aragon ruled..
As of 1283, the kings of the Crown of Aragon could no longer impose new taxes without the approval of the Valencian Cortes.
In this street is the house where the mathematician, theologian and cartographer Tomás Vicente Tosca was born, who in 1704 made a plan of Valencia in perspective. He was called "el capellà de les ratlletes" (the chaplain of the rayitas).
On the street there is also a photography studio founded in 1901.
In this street was the collegiate church of S. Bartolomé, of which only its tower remains. This church suffered serious damage during the Civil War and had to be demolished in 1944. It was one of the oldest churches in Valencia, which was donated by Jaime I to the knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, and was built a new plant in the seventeenth century.
Built at the end of the 14th century by the master Pere Balaguer, they are inspired by the door of the Poblet monastery (Tarragona), although these in Valencia are more monumental. They have a height of 33 m.
They are so called because they are oriented towards the Serranía and the inhabitants of this region, the Serranos, used to enter through it.
In 1931 they were declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument.