This short street connects Calabazas Street with Palafox Street and is one of the streets that surround the Central Market. In the seventeenth century it was called Calle del Gall (rooster).
This short street connects Calabazas Street with Palafox Street and is one of the streets that surround the Central Market. In the seventeenth century it was called Calle del Gall (rooster).
The Central Market was carried out by Francesc Guardia i Vidal and Alexandre Soler i March (both from the Barcelona School of Architecture). The project was presented in 1910, but construction did not begin until 1914.
The Central Market was inaugurated on January 23, 1928 by King Alfonso XIII.
Its domes, covered with ceramic inside, stand out from this market. The largest is round (located where the two main streets intersect) and the one with the fishmonger is oval.
The market has more than 8,000 m. squares and a grandiose metal structure supported by slender cast iron pillars.
The building, with an irregular floor plan, is articulated with a wider street, which joins the main entrances of the Plaza del Mercado and Avenida del Oeste, and a perpendicular axis to it that connects secondary accesses.
The walls of the market are covered by abundant ceramics from the La Ceramo factory in Benicalap.
The fishmonger's dome has a swordfish-shaped weathervane (in the image), while the larger dome has a parrot-shaped weathervane.
The blue building on the left is the La Casa Azul hotel, a curious accommodation with only three rooms, one per floor.
The construction of the Lonja de Valencia responds to the commercial and maritime boom of the city during the 15th century. The works began in 1483 by Pere Compte and Joan Ibarra; and they end in 1548, when the Consulate of the Sea is finished.
La Lonja de Valencia is one of the best examples of civil Gothic in the Crown of Aragon. To the right of the tower is the Contracting Room, while to its left is the Consulate of the Sea, a work already Renaissance.
The various scenes on the door of the Lonja de Valencia tell us about the capital sins; we see scenes of witchcraft, a man defecating, a couple fornicating, a man with a mace, etc.
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.
The religious iconography of the covers of the Lonja de Valencia is consistent with the construction, conceived as a temple of the merchants. Here the merchants did business and there was the official office for the purchase and sale of silk. The Consulate of the Sea was the headquarters of maritime commerce.
In the Contract Room, completed in 1498, its eight helical columns stand out, opening up like palm trees to support the vault. Its maximum height is 17.40 m.