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.

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.

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