Ruzafa name comes from the Arabic word garden, which was one of a hundred names that Muslims called it to heaven or paradise.
In this street Dr. Serrano are the Bodegas Biosca, since 1932.
From 1811 and until 1877, it was an independent village Ruzafa of Valencia.
Today the old village of Ruzafa has been fully absorbed by the city of Valencia and is very close to the city center.
Ruzafa, in its oldest part, has a core of irregular streets. This is testimony to its Islamic layout.
The neighborhood also has many examples of modernist architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The people of this district were engaged for a long time to pick with hooks trunks transported from the Serrania by the Turia River, so the neighborhood was known as "Terra del ganxo".
This was the church of the ancient village of Ruzafa. The church was built on the site of the old medieval church and was renovated in 1676 by Juan Bautista Pérez Castiel, who gave it its current appearance. The bell tower is already the eighteenth century. Burned in 1936, it was rebuilt from 1939. In the years 1940-1949 the chapel was built the Communion.
This market was projected by Julio Bellot Senent and is built on a plot of about 4,800 m. Its factory is cement. Despite being a closed market, the construction of stalls for the outside gives it an outdoor market.
Ruzafa neighborhood was very degraded few years ago, but now has become a cultural and entertainment reference for Valencia. It is a neighborhood where many painters have been established and are in it several art galleries. there are also several cafés-bookstores as Slaughterhouse, Red Harvest and Ubik and wineries, restaurants and pubs.
This convent, the seventeenth century, is located at the point where Jaime I set up his camp for the conquest of Valencia, where he signed the capitulation Zayyan, the last Moorish king of Valencia.
The Kingdom of Valencia Avenue separates the Ruzafa neighborhood of the Eixample district. This avenue was formerly called Victoria Eugenia, April 14, Jose Antonio and the Old Kingdom of Valencia.
On the right the building of the School of Craftsmen, 1868 looks.
In this avenue, planted with palm trees along its entire length, it is the Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew (1962), which highlights the ceramic mural by the artist Andrés Cillero, which was considered too modern in its time and was controversial. This church was formerly in the Barrio del Carmen, where only the tower remains.