16 Aug, 2012

The square has several buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

16 Aug, 2012

The Dominican monastery and church of Pilar was founded in 1611 to help the sick neighbor's General Hospital.

16 Aug, 2012

The street is dedicated to the Visigoth king left Arianism in 598 to convert to Catholicism.

At this point, next to the building of the former Guild of Carpenters, the road narrows to lead Balmes Street.

16 Aug, 2012

This street is named for the ancient settlements of butchers who was in it, but today there are none.

Formerly, as stated in a tile, it was called Coixo Portal (Portal del Cojo). The name was because the street was a gate in the wall whose guardian was lame.

16 Aug, 2012

The building on the left, No. 12 Street, is a good example of home-workshop Sedera eighteenth century.

The neighborhood is also called Velluters, who were the workers who concocted the silk thread. In principle it applied only to those who concocted velvet (vellut), but then applied to those who worked all kinds of silk.

14 Dec, 2015

Escolapios College has a rectangular courtyard with a small belfry with three bells, and a clock. On the ground floor, the courtyard has arches. The whole school and convent was built between 1739 and 1742.

16 Aug, 2012

This square of the Church of the Pious Schools, built during the years 1767-1773. Its interior is based on the Pantheon in Rome, highlighting its dome of 40 m. high. The church was declared Artistic Historical Monument in 1982. Its facade was restored during the years 1995-1999 with the Piarist College, where he studied Blasco Ibanez, and is next.

15 Jun, 2016

This building, the Guild of Mercers, dates from the fifteenth century. It was restored in the XVI, XVII and, especially, in the eighteenth century. In 1981 he was declared a historic-artistic monument.
 
The guild dels Velluters (velvets) was created in the fifteenth century, in 1474, due to the importance that the silk had acquired in Valencia. In 1686 Charles II granted the title "College of artists" to this union, and renamed Colegio Mayor Art Silk.

15 Jun, 2016

The current façade is the eighteenth century. Above the door contained a high relief of St. Jerome, the patron of the guild, the work of Ignacio Vergara. On the facade, above the door, is inscribed the year of 1756.

15 Jun, 2016

Inside, in the Hall, there is tile flooring eighteenth century. The ceiling painting by José Vergara.
At the foot of the chapel is a Gothic spiral staircase, it would be one of the few elements that would be the old building.

The building has been restored again in the XXI century, leaving the configuration that was in the eighteenth century.
Starting on June 18, 2016 is installed here the Silk Museum.