In 1655 the Royal Mail office was opened in this square, then called de Valencians. The "Casa de Postas" was located here for a time.
In 1655 the Royal Mail office was opened in this square, then called de Valencians. The "Casa de Postas" was located here for a time.
This square is located just behind the Talía theater and in her there are also the offices of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT).
The main façade of the church of San Nicolás faces this square, which is L-shaped.
This church is of Gothic structure and its interior was decorated in the seventeenth century to the taste of the time. The neo-Gothic façade of the image was made in 1864.
Inside it keeps extraordinary paintings, highlighting a Renaissance crucifixion (15th century) by Rodrigo de Osona. The paintings in the vaults, made by Dionís Vidal, were restored in 2016.
In the subsoil of this square, a Roman temple was discovered in 2002. It is the largest so far found in the city.
This street connects the Plaza de los Fueros with that of Cisneros. In her there were, in the fourteenth century, some baths called San Lorenzo.
This square was previously called Plaza de San Gil. In her you will find the Museum of the History of Medicine and Science, which is located in the Cerveró palace, from the 18th century.
The azucat (cul-de-sac), which is on the left of the photograph, was formed in Islamic times. After the conquest of Valencia, in the azucat, the medieval chapel of San Gil was built and for this reason this square was formerly called Plaza de San Gil. The painter Ignacio Pinazo also lived in this azucat.
In the square is the headquarters of Cáritas.
In this square is the palace of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Valencia (18th century), it is the building on the left. The Real Maestranza de Caballería was founded by Fernando VI, in 1754, in order to train horsemen for the regiments. The palace was renovated in the middle of the 19th century giving it a neoclassical appearance.
The building on the right is the Palace of the Catalá de Valeriola family (15th century). In the 18th century it acquired its current appearance in a reform. It has hosted the Academy of the Nocturns, which was a literary circle that met at night, and also the Economic Society of Friends of the Country. At present it is a headquarters of the Consellería.
Among the original Gothic elements of this palace remains, among others, the staircase in the courtyard.
This street forms two right angles from Navellos street, ending at Serranos street.